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Mic Harrison And The High Score
12+ albums
americanaGarage Rock
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There is no doubt that Mic Harrison and the High Score is a working class band. “One night in Little Rock, a guy said ‘You’re pretty fat for a band. You must have day jobs!’” says High Score bassist Vance Hillard with a laugh. Maybe the man was used to anorexic college-aged hipsters living on ramen noodles and Red Bull. Who knows? In fact, the members of the Mic Harrison and the High Score do have day jobs with very understanding employers. They’d have to be considering the band’s regular recorded output and seemingly endless tour schedule, which has included dates at Bonnaroo, Chattanooga’s Riverbend Festival the Mucklewain festival and regular runs that take the band from Boston to Texas. And, maybe having those day jobs is what keeps the band’s music so earthy and honest. It’s music for people who work 40-hours a week and need to be guaranteed a good time and feel a connection to something real and sincere. Every show is like a party where nobody seems to care when they accidentally get baptized by a spilled beer or fallen on by an unsteady fellow reveler. When the band took a six month break to write and record the new album “Great Commotion” the world didn’t stop turning, but there was a definite void in the music scene that Mic Harrison has been a part of since the early 1990s. A native of Bradford, Tenn., just beside the Kingdom of Skullbonia (reward yourself with an Internet search for it), Harrison was asked to join the Knoxville, Tenn.,-based V-Roys just as t
