Show Photos: Porch Builder, Mountain Sprout @ Gabe's- 3/10

I don’t see much country music swing through here. Sure, there’s always bluegrass and twangy folk to be had on a regular basis, but not straight up, foot-stompin’ country music. I walked outside my comfort zone and caught Porch Builder and Mountain Sprout at Gabe’s on Thursday. They all seemed to be having fun up there – as much as the crowd – which was full of dancing, beer-guzzling, energetic fans. Local band, Porch Builder, opened the night with their garage rock ruckus. It got a little wild; at one point I was hit with an empty beer can, but it was all in good, rowdy spirit.  You can catch Porch Builder Saturday the 19th at the Yacht Club. The night was closed out by Mountain Sprout, a band that says on their myspace page “well, we are just doing what we like to do the best way we know how”. These fellas are very clearly out of Arkansas..and I say that in the most awesome way possible — Crazy beards, straw hats, fiddle, banjo, guitar and stand-up bass boot-stomping craziness. They even threw in a bit of Hank Williams. It wasn’t a bad way to spend a Thursday evening.