Takamine Guitars

Broken family band

One from the heart from Cambridge, deviants The Broken Family Band are a curious bunch. Whereas most British countryphiles look to the West Coast honk of Bakersfield and Gram Parsons, this quartet seem far more rootless. Armed with a similar sense of mischief and knack for a roaring tune, they instead sound like kindred cousins of that other great homegrown anomaly, The Mekons. Add a dash of Meat Puppets, a little Pavement and Steven Adams up front - Blighty's own Gordon Gano - and you're nearly there.