With a driving backbeat, rapid fire and precise guitar and thunderous bass, Boulder’s Rose Hill Drive stormed the stage at Smith’s Olde Bar in Atlanta on Friday, the seventh of November. This three-piece power trio knows how to rock and they rock hard. This up and coming group showed they have the guts and cojones to unabashedly electrify much larger arenas, and if this showing was in any way indicative of the powers of which they are capable, they will be playing to much larger crowds nationally soon.

Hailing from Boulder, CO, Rose Hill Drive is somewhat of a throw back to ’70s era hard rock. Blistering guitar solos and tight group playing are their hallmarks and their strong suite. Touring on the strength of their recent release, Moon Is the New Earth, the band knows they have what it takes to make it in the cut throat rock and roll industry.

With a no-frills stage set-up, it was obvious there would be no sideshow, no deflection. The music and the music alone was the appetizer, entree and dessert. Their set was composed of originals from their recent and previous releases, as well as a few covers of classics like Who Knows by Hendrix and the Zeppelin rough and tumble crunch rocker Communication Breakdown. Very little artist and audience dialogue added to the mystique of the band. The show was workman-like in its delivery and production.

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Jacob Sproul’s vocals were pitch-perfect and dead on the money coupled with his pulsating and throbbing electric bass work. Daniel Sproul’s electro-fury guitar pyrotechnics were cutting, shrieking, howling and razor-sharp. The chemistry between these two is as undeniable as a brother tandem should be. The Bonham/Moon drum blasts of Nathaniel Barnes punctuated each exclamation point, period and semi-colon.

These guys know how to stimulate a room the way you would imagine some of your favorite bands of yesteryear would have with their blues driven rock. Big time stardom will not elude these guys much longer, so catch them while you can – up-close and personal. Rose Hill Drive knows how to deliver the goods-with a big, fat exclamation point.

Matt Andrews

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