Welshly Arms

One Liner: Solid blues rock with a bucket of covers

Poster Position: 26

Thoughts:  With multiple covers, including the thrillingly, imaginatively titled Covers EP, comprising their most listened to songs on Spotify, you'd think that these guys were just a bar band making other people's music. However, their lone full album available to stream is really good as well, a swaggering, meaty blues rock sound.  So, who do they cover?  Their most popular track right now is an INXS song ("Need You Tonight") and their most listened to track on Spotify is a Sam and Dave classic ("Hold On, I'm Coming").  They also dip into Roy Orbison, Golden Earring, and Bobby "Blue" Bland (as well as others in an apparent quest to remake a lost third disc to the Forrest Gump soundtrack).  But their self-titled album, from 2015, is some tasty rock and roll action.  The most listened to track off of that album is "Never Meant to Be," which has 156k listens.

Live version, as I can't find a studio version or official video for the song, but you get the idea.  We're not breaking any new ground on this sound, but it is solidly done.  "We Move Easy" and "Love in a Minor Key" are both hard hitting nuggets.  And their most recent song, "Legendary," which has only 24k streams as of right now, sounds like something that should be used for a NFL 2016 ad campaign, or some other movie/TV show ad campaign.

Coming this fall!  CBS presents all the scientific drama you love, except with nothing actually happening!  CSI: La Grange!  Legendary!  Just wait, ESPN is going to find this song and play it so much during their March Madness promos that you are going to actually contemplate suicide.

Huh, I also found a YouTube video of their Sam & Dave cover, which was apparently the "official soundtrack" of the Hateful Eight's trailer.  This shows why it is their most listened-to track.

Its a pretty bad ass cover.  These dudes are from Cleveland, Ohio, but I can't find just a ton written about them on the web.  Their own website has a little, but Spotify doesn't have a bio and Wikipedia has nothing.  I mainly just wanted to find out what their band name is all about.  Sounds like a hotel name from jolly old England.  I like this music pretty well and would consider catching them if the schedule lines up right.