{"id":754,"date":"2012-03-22T18:28:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T18:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=754"},"modified":"2012-03-22T18:28:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T18:28:10","slug":"dry-rub-live-at-irie-wednesday-nights-interview-follows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/dry-rub-live-at-irie-wednesday-nights-interview-follows\/","title":{"rendered":"Dry Rub: Live at Irie Wednesday Nights (Interview Follows)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"Interview by Kim Holloway<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Early music experience:<\/strong><\/span> Keith Sanders (KS)<\/strong> – My dad is a musician, so I started pretty early. I started playing trumpet at the age of seven and it all kind of snowballed from there. I hooked up with Shane about four years ago. We started playing, and the rest is history. Shane King (SK)<\/strong> \u2013 I started playing the drums in the 9th grade for my buddy\u2019s blues band. I learned how to play guitar from their lead singer, Matthew Banks. After high school, I started playing seriously, sometime around 2007. I met up with Keith in Morehead and we\u2019ve been playing together ever since.<\/p>\n

\"\"You both shuffle back and forth with vocals. Who\u2019s the stronger singer?<\/strong><\/span> SK<\/strong> \u2013 Keith. I have a good voice; I just tear it up trying to get it out. KS<\/strong> \u2013 Recently, I started working with Shane on vocals. He has a totally different sound. That way, we have more of a variety of music. When he sings a song, I tell him to focus on hitting every note. I make sure his pitch is on top, and after that, he finds his own sound.<\/p>\n

Meeting up in Cleveland, Mississippi, how did your duo make its way to Oxford?<\/strong><\/span> KS<\/strong> \u2013 Shane and I have been friends for, shoot. I don\u2019t know how many years. One day, we decided we didn\u2019t want to get stuck in Cleveland. My brother lived here too. It took us all of an hour to decide we were moving to Oxford. SK<\/strong> \u2013 We got tired of the Delta. My brother, Scott, and good friend, David Lewis, both lived here, as well as some more delta hooligans.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a good crowd that follows Dry Rub downstairs to the basement of the Rib Cage. How\u2019d you start playing there?<\/strong><\/span> KS<\/strong> \u2013 Well, we both work at the Rib Cage. Buck wasn\u2019t looking for entertainment really, but we told him we\u2019d play. Customers started telling him they liked us and that we were a \u201cgood time band.\u201d They were mostly our friends. Then, he kept hiring us.<\/p>\n

\"\"What contemporary bands would you compare Dry Rub to for those who\u2019ve never seen your show?<\/strong><\/span> Slightly Stoopid meets Mofro with a little bit of John Prine and Bill Withers.<\/p>\n

During your shows, you play a couple of covers. What\u2019s your favorite crowd pleaser?<\/strong><\/span> KS<\/strong> \u2013 We don\u2019t just play covers, but when we do, we play them our way. SK – I like to play cover songs that you wouldn\u2019t normally hear at a bar. We do not play \u201cMustang Sally\u201d or \u201cBrown Eyed Girl.\u201d You\u2019ve got the wrong band. I like to cover Corey Brennan. The cover songs just help bring the crowd in, and then we always throw in some originals.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s been your favorite and least favorite gig in Oxford?<\/strong><\/span> KS<\/strong> \u2013 I played at Parrish\u2019s one night. Two guys got in a fight. One of them told the other, \u201cIf you\u2019ve got one ounce of Aryan blood in your body, you\u2019ll meet me outside.\u201d It was funny. My least favorite was one night at Irie. I was playing with a 102 degree fever, and then later found out, I had been playing all night with a ruptured appendix. SK<\/strong> \u2013 My favorite was at the Rib Cage shrimp boil. Adrian Dickey played with us. We played all night, probably close to seven hours. And least favorite, downstairs of the Cage, hammered. I couldn\u2019t remember the words or get my hands to do what my mind was thinking.<\/p>\n

Ya\u2019ll are scheduled to play at Irie on Wednesday nights. How\u2019d you get from the Cage to there?<\/strong><\/span> KS<\/strong> \u2013 I was out with friends singing karaoke. The owner heard I also played guitar. He gave us one Wednesday to show him what we were worth. We drew a solid crowd and had a lot of fun. So, he kept booking us for Wednesdays.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your favorite encore song?<\/strong><\/span> KS<\/strong> \u2013 One night we wrote a rendition telling
\npeople not to go home, but to get the hell out of here. It\u2019s nothing like the original. SK<\/strong> \u2013 I like playing \u201cThe War\u201d by Lucero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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