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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nJesus Sons<\/a> began life in a motorcyle garage in San Francisco in 2011; the initial line-up was Brandon Wurtz and Shannon Dean with Rob Good and Ian McBrayer of Warm Soda<\/a>. In 2013, Wurtz and Dean decamped for Los Angeles, and Chance Welton, Bert Hoover, and Erik Lake joined the band.<\/p>\n Jesus Sons<\/a><\/i>, their first, self-titled record starts with a burst of bluesy harmonica that expands into a supple country-blues guitar riff, all of which caused me to sit back in my chair and smile in hopeful anticipation.<\/p>\n Ladies and gentlemen, I was not disappointed. If you like country-blues with ragged garage rock edges (all of them, but especially Ain’t Talkin’ Homesick<\/i>) and the occasional burst of surfy shimmy (Out of Time<\/i>) and\/or suggestion someone may be conducting a punk rock exorcism (Melt\/Going Down<\/i>), you need this record in your life. Also, amid all the swagger, there’s a six minute instrumental – You Put a Spell on Me<\/i> – which is, dare I say it, kind of sweet.<\/p>\n Here, as an enticement, is the video for All These Furs<\/i>, in which they play a show at Salvation Mountain<\/a>. It passes my “could I watch this with the sound off and still enjoy it\/follow what was going on” test and also makes me want to be at the show, because those people look like they’re having fun.<\/p>\n