On the surface, Atlanta’s Gringo Star are good for at least two admittedly easy guffaws: there’s that band name, for starters (c’mon, admit it — you’re jealous you didn’t think of it first!), followed by the equally excellent title of Gringo’s 2008 full-length debut: All Y’all. Got your chuckles out? Good, because the jokes end once these four guys start bashing out their music, swapping instruments on the fly and rocking out with a conviction reminiscent of early Kinks or Animals (with maybe a pinch of Southern boogie, just so y’all don’t forget they’re from Georgia). Sure, it’s still fun — just not the kind of smarmy-hipster-irony kind that the band and album names might imply. These guys have been rocking Atlanta since 2001 (originally under the moniker A Fir-Ju Well); to stick around that long on any scene, you gotta have substance and real mojo, and these Gringos have both in abundance.

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