Following the death of their guitarist/singer D. Boon, the band the Minutemen broke up. Singer/Bassist Mike Watt and drummer George Hurely had considered quitting music altogether, but after Sonic Youth invited Watt to collaborate with them it made him realise he wasn't done with music yet.
Minutemen fan Ed Crawford tracked down Watt in the mistaken belief that he was auditioning guitarists for a new band. The move paid off as Crawford's passion and enthusiasm impressed Watt and Hurley, and convinced them to try forming a band with the less road-tested Crawford, thus fIREHOSE was born.
"fROMOHIO" is their third studio album and mixes their sound of post-punk, funk, folky acoustic guitar and restrained but pleasant melody. A sound not dissimilar from the Minutemen, but maybe more stylistically focussed and with less punk rock.
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