Rare is the bar that hasn’t had at least one heated debate about who is the best member of The Beatles. The opinion changes person to person, day to day. While this conversation is warranted and entertaining, it’s probably time to the future: Futurebirds, specifically. The Athens, Georgia-born, three-headed frontman monster celebrates the roots of American music while weaving in contemporary sonic exploration, which serves as the active chapter in real, rollicking country rock, written, played, and sung by real, rollicking songwriters — Daniel “Womz” Womack, Carter King, and Thomas “Tojo” Johnson.
Always a band to challenge where they’re headed while keeping an eye loosely on the rearview, Futurebirds are back with their latest album, Far Out Country. The ambitious double album chronicles the ongoing dialogue of a group of pals who met at the University of Georgia, growing from hometown heroes with little responsibility into fathers and family men navigating the tension between the road that made them and the home that is calling them back.
