Six Mile Grove to release new CD

Band plays Friday

in downtown NU

By FRITZ BUSCH

Journal Staff Writer

NEW ULM -- The pop, folk, alternative country and rock music style of Six Mile Grove returns to town Friday night for the first time since Riverblast.

Promoting the release of their new album "Bumper Crop," the band, which includes New Ulm attorney Jeff Braegelmann, will perform at 9 p.m. at the B&L Bar, 15 N. Minnesota.

Six Mile Grove's latest album includes its usual clear lyrics and vocals accompanied by the drums, an organ, guitar, banjo and harmonica.

Song lyrics center around love gone bad, farmers losing their homesteads and other failed dreams.

Band members include singer/guitarist Brandon Sampson, lead guitarist Matt Vannelli, keyboardist/back vocalist Barry Nelson, bassist Dezi Wallace and drummer Brian Sampson.

The new album will be nationally distributed through its own web site and newartistdirect.com.

Six Mile Grove will return to New Ulm's Turner Hall on Friday, Jan. 28, and Saturday, Jan. 29, with Bob Wootten, who played guitar with Johnny Cash for 30 years.

The audiences at Heritagefest will verify that Wootten sounds very much like Cash.

The band began as an "oldies" cover band in the early'90s. It became a college rock band a few years later.

Six Mile Grove has shared the stage with "The Kentucky Headhunters," "Nitty Gritty Dirt Band," and "Slobberbone," a Texas rock band.

It also performs at The Cabooze in Minneapolis, in St. Cloud; Rochester; the Midwest County Theater in Sandstone; the Crown Plaza in Madison and Milwaukee, Wis.; Marshalltown, Iowa; and The Avalon Theater in Easton, Md.

(Fritz Busch can be reached at fbusch@nujournal.com).