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MOFRO BACK WITH SECOND RECORD

MOFRO has returned with Lochloosa, the followup to the runaway success of their debut, "Blackwater" and one critic is calling it "probably the best recording put out by any Florida band since Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Damn the Torpedoes way back in 1979." A dozen new songs, plus live performance video, and special guest Papa Mali. That "front porch soul" sound is back, with grooves and anthems that delve deep into the backwoods psyche of songwriter JJ Grey. The music weaves in and out of this piney woods world of joy and sorrow with warmth and sincerity. "Lochloosa", a place in Florida unknown even by most Floridians, sings of places you may never visit and people you may never know, but JJ's voice delivers it like a postcard from your best friend.

Rolling Stone critic Andrew Strickman has declared it one of the top 10 releases of the year, and Billboard had this to say: "MOFRO is an unmistakably Southern hybrid that maintains elements of funk, blues, country and Dixie rock. But the duo is also undeniably soulful and quite adept at what it does. Down-home funk track That Boy, like most of the songs here, is driven by a rock-solid bottom and more hooks than a tackle box. Grey's honeyed vocals make Fireflies a soul-drenched delight, while Hance's slide guitar work brings back-porch authenticity to the atmospheric Ten Thousand Islands and gutbucket fare like Gal Youngin and Pray for Rain. Grey's vocals are also mighty fine on the glorious The Wrong Side and bluesy Everybody's. But the real showpiece is the title cut, a pining, sorrowful lament about the overdevelopment of the act's home state."




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About Fog City

  • Fog City Records specializes in music with fat tones and deep roots. We make records that have a sense of place, by working with musicians that sound unmistakably and indelibly like where they come from. We seek the last outposts of regional American flavor, and hope to inspire you to explore the possibilities beyond the monochromatic blight of pop culture. In our 10 year history, the road less traveled has led us from San Francisco to New Orleans to Austin to Shreveport to San Diego to Jacksonville and back again, and our jaw-dropping catalog now includes debut records from MOFRO, Galactic, Stanton Moore, Garage A Trois, Papa Mali, Robert Walter's 20th Congress, Tim Bluhm and Etienne de Rocher.

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