Despite its members converging from stylistically far reaching bands like Roots Collider, Blackened Blues, Sparx and Yarms, and Poetry For Thieves, The Younger Gang’s focus is kept intact and nailed to its roots by the plunka-plunka plink and twang of its namesake’s banjo. That’s not to say the band has individually abandoned their roots or deny where […]
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“Out of the Furnace”
An odd prologue sets the tone and establishes the central subject of “Out of the Furnace.” Harlan DeGroat (Woody Harrelson), a rural drug dealer and gang leader, anonymous at that point in the film, watches a movie at a drive-in theater, complains of feeling nauseated, then when his girlfriend expresses concern, shoves a hot dog […]
