Ollabelle

Ollabelle play the kind of uplifting, country-tinged gospel that will make you want to shake a tambourine and do back flips down the aisle of your favorite church like John Belushi in The Blues Brothers. If Delaney & Bonnie threw a party with the Staple Singers and Nickel Creek, this would be the soundtrack.

On their debut, New York gospel revisionists Ollabelle suggest that Jesus is just all right with
them, but old songs about him are even better. This six-piece lays down a moody groove
like Morphine struck with the Holy Ghost feeling, and unlike revivalists of other stripes
(Jack White, Jon Spencer) who spike the volume, Ollabelle's music is about nuance.
Droning keys and tethered guitar riffs don't trip up spirited vocals that update vi... More >