“...Be ready to do the natural thing, which is to dance, to embrace strangers, to mend fences with your ex, to drink one (just one) too many and subsequently make bold statements and wild observations, while the band feeds off your energy and gives it that much more gusto...”

Furious Frank is a formidable yet friendly group of Chicagoans who, on their debut album The Hobocamp Mudshow, are diligently working at the perfection of a unique yet warmly familiar brand of rootsy sonic spillage. Sometimes they are raucous and celebratory, at other times gritty and introspective; they can vamp, chug, clang, wail, groove, pull bow and pluck (+ strum) string, one moment recklessly rocking the party and then at another expertly bringing down the level of intensity just enough so that two people can, if they so choose, clasp hands and sway...

- Joseph Neff, Winchester VA 7/09