Dead Horses

Another awesome show at the Varsity. Super hot Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses brought good ol' real alt-country to town on the back of their steel horses and rocked the prettily lit house. A surprise delight was the opening act, Jesse Dayton, whom I'd never heard of before that night. It was all rockabilly all the time, but he laced it with story songs spun with a mild essence of hip hop. You could tell he enjoyed every minute up there in front of the crowd that was hungry for Ryan but thinking Jesse sounded pretty damn good, too. And the $2.50 Pabst cans pretty much made it all perfect.