Fellow Travelers, Alewives, Free Dirt
The Rigby 119 E. Main St., Madison, Wisconsin 53703
Anya Belomoina
A close-up of Max and the Fellow Travelers.
Max and the Fellow Travelers
Milwaukeeans Fellow Travelers visit Madison the night before the release party in Brewtown for a new album, Don’t Fail Me Now. The singles released the last couple months find songwriter Max Niemann and company creating some meat-and-potatoes Midwestern roots music — in the tradition of landing possibly a bit too country for the rockers and too rockin' for the country kids. If you loved, say, Bottle Rockets, you wanna check ‘em out. It’s a whale of a triple bill also featuring Free Dirt and alewives, Madison bands working similarly twang-friendly yet intense angles on the rock spectrum.
