The Flat Five

Chicagos roots-pop gene pool has been skimmed, and the group calling itself The Flat Five is the happy result. With the natural gift to blend into almost any musical terrain, these five young-ish masters roam at will from the Beach Boys to the Magnetic Fields, ancient country to neo-cabaret, gently melodic originals to gruesome old Americana. Left to their own devices, they get busy translating feeling into tone, improvising gorgeous harmonic structures and grooves, and poking curiously into posteritys dusty little corners.  Robbie Fulks

The Flat Five is:

Kelly Hogan (Neko Case, Andrew Bird, Mavis Staples)

Nora OConnor (Andrew Bird, Iron and Wine)

Scott Ligon (NRBQ, Mavis Staples, JD McPherson)

Casey McDonough (NRBQ, Pokey LaFarge)

Alex Hall (JD McPherson, Pokey LaFarge, Robbie Fulks)