Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers - Gift Horse

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Label: Vanguard
Year: 2011
Genre: Americana, Folk Rock
Recommending Person: Sarah Ward

Did you need a band sounding like John Cougar Mellencamp in 2011? If you did then Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers are the band for you. While Stephen Kellogg is definitely the stronger songwriter the music sounds dated even though it was released less than 4 years ago. 

The song "1993" could have come out
on Mellencamp's American Fool or Uh Huh between "Pink Houses" and "Crumblin' Down". It may be that Heartland or Americana are genres that do not suit me, but they seem to praise the stories of the uninteresting. I'd much rather listen to anything from Billy Joel than the SK6ers, fun nickname I must admit, or John Mellencamp.