Morphine

Employing only a two-string slide bass, a baritone saxophone, a drum kit and vocals – all
tuned to the register of a house band in a Las Vegas strip club – the Boston trio Morphine
evoke the zonked swing of lounge jazz and the grind of dirty blues while maintaining firm
rock & roll convictions. It's a neat trick, considering that the band doesn't find much
versatility in its instruments and that the unrelenting depth of its register should –... More >