Lee Bains III and The Glory Fires (Los Angeles, CA)

Lee Bains III and The Glory Fires

The title of LEE BAINS III AND THE GLORY FIRES debut album comes from Bains mishearing an old hymn as a child. In the soft accents of his elders around Birmingham Alabama There is a balm in Gilead sounded a lot like There is a bomb. It fits really. The Glory Fires learned to construct music in the churches of their childhoods and learned to destroy it in the punk clubs of their youths.As much Wilson Pickett as Fugazi as much the Stooges as the Allman Brothers Birmingham Alabama s Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires have brought radical rock n roll to bear on their own experience and their own place. On THERE IS A BOMB IN GILEAD they deconstruct the music of the Deep South strip it down and reassemble it to make a righteous ruckus that sits at the vanguard of the vernacular.In 2008 shortly after returning to Birmingham from college in New York Lee Bains fell in with the Dexateens...