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The band is neither from the frontier - their home is Detroit, of all places - nor do they sound like they are causing much of a ruckus. But they do have a sound that's pure Americana, almost like a soundtrack for the quieter moments of No Country for Old Men.
The band, which consists of Milia and his college friends David Winston Jones, Zachary Nichols, and Ryan Etzcorn, is about to release a new album July 20 called Deadmalls and Nightfalls on a North Carolina-based indie label, and three days later, on Friday, July 23, they will be headlining a concert at the Granada. (The night before the band will be at the Boiler Room in Denton.)
Milia and banjo player Jones came together first while they were in high school in Detroit. Milia then went off to Michigan State University and Jones to the University of Michigan. They continued to play together, mostly Milia's compositions combined with a few oif his favorite bluegrass tunes. Soon it became a six-piece band with the addition of Eli Eisman on bass; Nichols on trumpet, musical saw (shades of the original Flatlanders) and melodia; Etzcorn on drums; and Anna Burch on harmony vocals. At that point one magazine called Frontier Ruckus "one of the very best sounds to come out of Michigan this entire decade."
The band was named Detroit's Best Folk Group by Real Detroit Weekly. Last year they not only toured the United States extensively, but also played the Slottsfjell Festival in Norway, as well as in the United Kingdrom, Holland and Germany. This year they were part of the Bonnaroo Music Festival. The Granada show could be one of those opportunities from which you can say, years later, "I saw them when ..."
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