Parker Millsap at Rough Trade (3/31/15), The Bowery Ballroom (4/1/15) and The Sinclair (4/3/15)

Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant has, if nothing else, a very distinct sound. It’s a sound that few – if any – try to emulate, and those who do generally fall far short of their mark. Parker Millsap, however, in opening with “You Gotta Move,” had that tight, strained-yet-smooth sound that Zeppelin fans go wild for. His is the voice that hurls itself over the audience like it hurts the singer, going for that rough, raw, hard-hitting kind of sensibility that perfectly embodies the group.

"Little Neon Limelight" by Houndmouth coming March 17, 2015

"From the Hills Below the City" and "Little Neon Limelight" are not groundbreaking; the annals of American music burst with Southern rock ballads, discography's of rotating raconteurs, vivid characters from the old American West, gold mines and oil spills, eyes on the future with a finger on the pulse of the past, and all-together-now! chanting. If you're not inventing something, or discovering something or sticking your neck out to pretend to be a trend setter, then you're relying on your own excellence to stand out.