Consisting of Chad Rupp/voc-g-p-harm, Jason Thomas/g, Samuel Gendler/p-org, Chandler Bowerman/dr, Charis Mercer/sax and Joe McCarthy/tp, the Oregon-based Sugar Roots take you to the dirt roads of Austin and the deep south with some gritty blues rocking. With the horn section of Mercer and McCarthy, Rupp growls and jives on his “Sweet Lovin’ Daddy” and Jinmy Reed’s stomping “It’s A Sin”. The guitars deliver some slither ZZ Top’d licks on “Rain Checkin’” and the shufflin’ “145 Boogie” as well as the dark and sleek “Going Nowhere”. Gendler’s piano takes the lead on a slow and simmering read of Steve Miller’s “Rock’n Me” and gets rowdy on a soulful “Savage’s Life” with his organ grinding hard on the agonizing “Next To You”. Roadhouse rhythms.