"Won't [country] music change now that the [country has] turned strange?"

Gunther Doug began their set proclaiming that everyone at Shea was in for some country numbers. They must be from some bizarre lands.

Well, Nashville actually but that makes just as much sense. Their tunes are reminiscent of some those southern giants of 80s alternative rock and has a freewheeling weirdness that's completely endearing. The band works in broad strokes, both the lyrics and music have a comic-book like directness to them. The world of Gunther Doug is replete with doomed grandmas, casual criminals, demons, hotboxed caves and, of course, the complex inner life of the turtle.

It's all what I think they would call a "hoot" - take a listen and hear what this trio had in store for us when they stopped in this past July.
- Luke Chiaruttini