"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 9/23/24)
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Real Live Certified
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Critic Consensus
Based on 7 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that The Deslondes is rated as an impressive live performer, with worthwhile shows overall. The Deslondes concert reviews describe live shows and performances as authentic and genuine.
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Revolution Hall, Portland, United States (October 13)
The Deslondes (formerly Sam Doores + Riley Downing & The Tumbleweeds) are a New Orleans-based country-soul, swamp-boogie band. They combine elements of early Stax, Sun and Atlantic records with the influence of a more raw, stripped-down sound gleaned off field recordings from Alan Lomax and Mississippi Records catalogue.
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Americana (UK)
January 24, 2018
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Sometimes you just know when you have made the right choice and so it was that when The Deslondes struck up it was clear that the other attractions at tonight's Celtic Connections would pale in comparison.
A five-piece band from New Orleans: That’s about as far as one might get in solving the formula yielding The Deslondes, a group that got its start under a different identity in 2010 and in 2013 changed its name to one paying tribute to a street in the Lower Ninth Ward where the group originated.
The Deslondes live at The Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 22nd Jan 2018
The Deslondes are the real thing; a set of connoisseurs of the musical traditions of the Southern US, maintaining and extending those traditions without tying themselves up in painfully exact authenticity. Warm and genuine, their evening