MOTHER AND SON THE SURFABILLY DUO FROM WOLLONGONG

Lately i have been tempted a bit more to throw a few obscure australian acts and songs on here, i have been looking after the americans with mostly american music mainly because it's mainly americans who are reading this website (laugh). Kind of makes sense i think, but i would imagine (i could be wrong) that my 200 regular american readers might want to listen to something really diffrent now and then from Down Under. MOTHER AND SON is just that, an alternative rock duo from Wollongong in New South Wales whose distinctive sound takes in a variety of influences - the surfy melancholy of JACK JOHNSON is predominant, BEN HARPER, XAVIER RUDD, NICK CAVE, ROWLAND S. HOWARD, even the rudimentary early 70`s australian blues rock of BILLY THORPE & THE AZTECS gets a look in within the soundscape of this edgy and stripped down band. MOTHER AND SON have been self annointed as being surfabilly by drummer MAT TEUDT and fellow member and multi-instrumentalist BODIE JARMAN, but trust me, they dont sound like the BEACH BOYS. The closest they get to beach music is the jangly, freewheeling R&B of JACK JOHNSON, but the angst eminating from the guitar of Jarman on the song REDCOATS comes from an altogether diffrent place than the singing american surfer, it has a creepy overtone like something THE BIRTHDAY PARTY would have cooked up. There are a few songs of MOTHER AND SON doing the rounds on the internet, i'll let you go looking and make a few comparisons. I think i deserve a free ticket to their next show in Brisbane now (laugh).