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Boston’s venerable music journal, The Metronome, recently featured a glowing review of our latest album, Marlboro Road. Here’s the story in all its glory:

The Metronome

BROOK MEGGS / Marlboro Road

Singer-guitarist Brook Meggs (cool name) along with bassist Karen Rusk and drummer Mike Levesque bang out a high spirited, power trio driven collection of songs that bristles with tone-filled guitar work, pulsing bass lines and spot-on time keeping. Featuring cameos by November 16^th Players Lori Sims Hodges and Jacob Rivera, Meggs and company prove to be a taut pop-rock outfit.

Best cuts on the Marlboro Road collection include the quirky “Chance Encounter,” the reflective, beat-laden ode to former punk rocker/poet, “Jim Carroll Died,” that features stellar solo guitar work, the wah-wah fueled “Lonesome Is,” the high steppin’ blues rock swagger of “Familiar,” and the romping, punk potent “Spill.” This album just gets better sounding listen after listen. Good stuff!   [Douglas Sloan]

MEGGS BAND RETURNS TO STUDIO YET AGAIN

Then, in November 2017, the entire band headed down to Knoxville TN to record the majority of the album’s twenty songs at Top Hat Recording’s palatial new facility there.

The Meggs Band is: Karen Rusk (bass), Tina Marie Lionstar (vocals), Beverly Bond (vocals), Mike Levesque (drums), Chuck Ferreira (drums), Will Woyda (sonic space and bass) and Brook Meggs (guitars, vocals).

Frequent collaborators Jon Rogers (sax), Marnie Hall (violin), Darek Leiner (drums, percussion), Michael Mendelsohn (vocals, bass), Jeffrey Barnes (percussion), Mickey Roach (pedal steel), Starz Vanderlockett (percussion), Robert Walp (trumpet), Eric Kilburn (mandolin), Arte Munoz (harp) and others are rumored to be participating in the project. The new record will also feature a special guest appearance by sensational young guitar slinger Baxter Hall.

The band is currently road-testing their mountain of new material for unsuspecting audiences in Boston and parts unknown. The collection will be available everywhere, all the time, in all formats, on all media, for ever and ever, amen, beginning on 1/1/19.

MEGGS RELEASES “MARLBORO ROAD”

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Brook Meggs today released his second solo album, “Marlboro Road.”

The eleven-song collection was recorded, mixed and mastered at Top Hat Recording in Austin, Texas. Meggs produced the record with John Harvey, who also handled the mastering.

Meggs played all guitars and performed lead vocals. He was joined by his usual rhythm section of Karen Rusk (bass) and Mike Levesque (drums). The album also features guest appearances on percussion by Jacob Rivera and vocals by Lori Sims Hodges.