Port O'Brien:
All We Could Do Was Sing

By: Dennis Cook You see the band name and images of sailing ships and salt pork fill your head. Turn on All We Could Do Was Sing and you're initially met with slamming drums and a weirdo tribal bark that's not far removed from Akron/Family. There's still a bit of grog swilling sea saltiness ("Fisherman's Son," "Stuck on a Boat") to this Oakland, CA group but it's slashed by a bounteous energy and undiminished tenderness, soothing and eviscerating in cool ways. One picks up the everyone-in-...

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