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Here comes the Nersh...it's Kangfirmed!

Ok, please excuse my phantasy tour flashback (phlashback?), but I've only just begun to get interested in Bill Nershi et al. Coming from a Leftover Salmon pedigree, I was naturally interested in all things Drew Emmitt. One of those things turned out to be The Emmitt Nershi Band. So, after listening to a few tracks, knowing that Drew Emmitt was handling the mandolin duties, I was left wondering whose incredible guitar work I was enjoying. Turns out, it was the Nersh.  

I was never really a big fan of the String Cheese Incident, not that I ever gave them much of a chance back during my Panic only days. I didn't have time for any new music. Ironic, that now, I consider myself to not have enough time to listen to all the new music that comes my way. Nershi himself has been quoated as saying about HTHS that "this band takes the music back to the kind of shows SCI did when it began," so maybe I don't know what I have been missing. Might have to check them out at some point.

Now for the bad news. I could not find any high quality videos for the group on youtube. Most were Honkytonk Homeslice and other musicians/groups or were of such poor audio caliber, that I refused to subject you to them. So, how should I, a simple purveyor of music, expose you to a musical group, sans music? Luckily, youtube, as the saying goes, is not the only game in town. You'll have to expend a click or two more than usual, but if you follow this ilike.com link, you'll be rewarded with not one or two, but five tracks for your enjoyment ("Shot in the blue," is one of my personal favorites).

In closing, I'd like to leave you with a little multimedia. We return to our familiar stomping grounds (youtube), but, rather than let myself be overtaken by the veritable link-fest that follows, I'll just let the music speak for itself.

New Monsoon with Honkytonk Homeslice doing their version of the venerable "Stagger Lee"
4-29-2006