The Big Takeover

On the first full day of the July East Coast heat wave (with temperatures reaching 101°F in Brooklyn) , the backyard of @mamatriedbk was on 🔥 with NYC cow punk band @stdivine_official, led by punk/Americana veterans rrthurWill 🎤 🎸 & author @trancesister 🎤 🎸, with @barnzoni (of NYC '00s county folk rock band Oakley Hall) on bass/🎤, Philip Yanos 🎸, and Michael Ratti 🥁 (who played with Jay & The Americans on their 1969 U.S. Top 10 cover of Doc Pomus/Mort Schuman-penned classic for The Drifters), celebrating the June release of their debut LP The Devil You Know (see the current @bigtakeovermag print issue & website for @dancingaboutarchitecture65's review of "30 Dolls" and "The Devil You Know" from the LP https://bigtakeover.com/recordings/st-divine-the-devil-that-you-know-reel-to-reel-records) with a set full of spirited & witchy country punk blues.

With heat dropping to the low 90°s after sunset, the crowd called out for an encore, and St. Divine delivered a scorching cover of NYC-originated psychobilly innovators @thecrampsofficial 1981 B-side "New Kind of Kick" that segued into that same band's 1980 version of Pacific Northwest proto-punk legends @thesonicsboom garage rocker "Strychnine" ( from their 1965 debut LP Here are The Sonics), for a suitably sweaty send off.

📽️ + 📝 @themicklewis

#StDivine #CountryPunk #TheSonics #TheCramps #Strychnine