South Austin Jug Band - Strange Invitation

Let's just get it out of the way right now: There's no jug-playing in the South Austin Jug Band. And any bluegrass connotation should be spilled down the drain along with other moonshine-conceived notions.

Sure, there's fiddle and mandolin, but there's also drumming, electric guitar and even digital looping. And Beck. Strange Invitation gets its title from a Beck lyric.

Comparisons might meander more toward a Jack Johnson vibe or a low-intensity Grateful Dead (which, it should be noted, started out as a real jug band).

Strange Invitation is chock-full of melodic songs and South Austin Jug Band has solidified itself as a tour-de-force in the world of acoustic music.

• Come To Me
• Fall So Fast
• Treak of Beandip Perkins
• Dive Bar
• Jack-Ass
• Chicago
• Neutral Ground
• Po' Boys in the Glovebox
• Wheatfield with Crows
• Avenue of the Americas
• Reprise