Folk Family Revival In-Store Performance
Sun Jul 28, 2:00 PM - Sun Jul 28, 3:00 PM

Wherever the Folk Family Revival plays, the ground underneath seems more a sanctuary than a stage. Sure enough, the Lankford family, Mason, Barrett and Lincoln, once filled a pew at a Magnolia, Texas church, where the brothers became fast friends with their soon to be brother and lead guitarist Caleb Pace.

They played Rock n Roll in church for a time, until the congregation found them a little too wild for their flock. So the family dug up their roots from that place and headed home.

Home is a patch of pavement on a windy road, halfway between Magnolia and Tomball. There in a little shed next to their parents' house, the blue house, the brothers honed their craft, from endless fuel carted out in empty bottles and heaping ashtrays.

Beneath many hours of cosmic contemplation, tempered through many hours more of pressure and concentration, the boys fashioned a sound.

That sound is clear and righteous, bold and forceful, complex and simple at the same time. Mason's lyrics ride the narrow edge of paradox and preaching, while the rumble of the band propulses with the fury of sacred rage. They've come to shake the windows and rattle the walls. They will go down fighting.

The Lankfords imbue their lives with a kind of sensory onslaught that might strike others as chaotic, but it is there, within the cacophony of mad rapture and otherworldly energy that clarity may emerge, whether in the words of a song, the rumble of a rhythm, or the echo of a melody.

It is that same ravenous spirit that guides their live show. Their performances are primal and powerful. The air is thick when they play, they emit their own humidity, a swampy soup of balladry and earnest anthems. Their geography is hard to place in a listen; there's swamp there but not quite bayou; there's definitely a breeze to it, but not one like the ocean. They're southern but not Confederate; they're soldiers who fight no battles. Except for the nightly onslaughts, meted out in space and time, before audiences who, when fully engaged in the moment surrounding them, become joined in a journey that is part time travel, part transubstantiation, and wholly its own.

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