Nocona is a rock band who draw their roots from Country, Folk, Punk, Rock and psychedelia. Known for taking the psychedelia of the 13th Floor Elevators and mashing it up with the Bakersfield sound—Roky and Buck; Love and the Burrito Brothers, their previous albums, Nocona and Long Gone Song drew rave reviews and the band has played some of the biggest festivals in America – Outside Lands, Bonnaroo, and Stagecoach. Los Dos out July 10, 2020 finds the band digging deeper into its bracing melding of hard-edged Americana and a keen punk-bred sensibility.

Nocona begins with the husband/wife team of Adrienne and Chris Isom. The Isoms – who played in New York, Austin, and Toronto before finally relocating to Los Angeles -- founded Nocona with former Old Californio drummer Justin Smith, who worked regularly at the Grand Ole Echo, the city’s Sunday roots music showcase. “Justin and I hit it off really well,” Chris says, “we have the same garage rock backgrounds, but we also like a lot of American roots. He’s a more encyclopedic store of music than I am.” The core members have found simpatico players in harmonica ace Elan Glasser, steel guitarist Dan Wistrom, and fiddler Xander Hitzig.

Our version of the song "Had to Run Around" is on the Emitt Rhodes tribute album; joining us on the recording is Probyn Gregory of Brian Wilson's band on trumpet, French horn and melodica. Stream the song (and the album) free here:

http://soundcloud.com/groover-recordings/the-digs-had-to-runaround

Our version of the song "Is Yours Is Mine" is on the now out of print Gene Clark tribute album; joining us on the recording is Jason Falkner on organ and harmony vocal and Josh Schwartz (of Beachwood Sparks) on guitar.

The only copy of the Gene Clark tribute album for sale online is forty dollars!

http://byrdsflyght.blogspot.com/2009/08/for-sale-world-turns-all-around-him.html

But you can stream it for free here!:

http://soundcloud.com/groover-recordings/02-is-yours-is-mine

"Rounding out the musical portion of the evening sometime around midnight was The Digs, and I felt god-damned ashamed of all the idiots that just had to rush off to bed and couldn’t stick around for the last act ... Top to bottom, The Digs are a professional act with Psychedelic, old-school country, folk and all around Americana roots. They gave us a flawless set and ended with something like a southern rock acid jam that lasted for several minutes, and sent bass guitarist Scott, one of the best bass guitarists the City of Los Angeles has ever turned out, atop his bass amp showing off what one can do with an intellectual insight into music theory and the soul of an artist — and finally compelling him to prod at the acoustic tiled ceiling with his guitar at the close. When their set ended and the lights finally flicked on, I felt mistreated and horn-swaggled—a show like this should not end for several more hours, but as young as the night was, I was still looking forward to the many after parties on the night’s chopping-block. - M. Wesley, Psychedelic L.A. Underground

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