DETERRENTS
What can a poor boy do, except to play in a rock and roll band? So the band you've led for years breaks up under the weight of record industry travails and constant touring. What are you gonna do? Grow your hair and join a commune? Start a cult? Retire to your seaside home? Sulk around your Providence RI hometown? Not if you're Jason Kendall, frontman of punkabilly stalwarts The Amazing Crowns.
Faced with a broad expanse of free time after the band called it quits in late 2001, Kendall asked himself WWKD? That is, what would Keith (Richards) do? The answer was simple. Form the Deterrents.
The band manifesto is simple. Quality rocknroll played with punk ferocity and a nod to the roots music that spawned it. Kendall hasn't completely abandoned the rockabilly influences that helped propel His former band around the country on countless tours with the likes of The Cramps, The Reverend Horton Heat, Social Distortion, The Supersuckers, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and many others. The influence of patron saint Johnny Cash can still be heard but now he's sharing time with the driving force of ACDC. Factor in Kendall and co-conspirator Dennis Kelly's affinity for Aussie rock and you have a group that is as comfortable playing a country ballad as they are a sing along punk 'n' roller.
Ladies and gentlemen... fighting the rising tide of mass-produced mediocrity. Tilting at the trend-driven windmills of pop culture. Five men who have forgotten more about rocknroll than most will ever know. From Providence Rock City... The Deterrents.
