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Zoograss

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Hot Day at the Zoo’s live Zoograss benefits as much from the audience’s audible enthusiasm and encouragement as it does from the group’s own prowess. This is a bluegrass band best witnessed in concert—appreciation for its rowdy, ramshackle sound is boosted considerably by a few beers and a dance floor. Even when the band dallies in heartfelt sentiment, as on “Back This Way,” there’s more than a hint of irreverence involved: “She never tried to be a good mama to me/She lied to me, she never cried for me/And then that bitch, she died on me.” The prolonged instrumental workouts on “Old Mill” and a raucous rendition of Peter Rowan’s “Midnight Moonlight” reflect the players’ considerable dexterity, but it’s the audience’s adrenaline that fuels these proceedings.

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