DOWN WITH CLASSIC ROCK?

Published Sept. 16, 2009 at 8:00 a.m.
The bands are new. But on the radio, the songs remain the same...by D.X. Ferris...Down is coming to town Tuesday, September 22. On paper, the New Orleans-based hard-rock/metal band should be playing the Quicken Loans Arena, not the much smaller House of Blues. The group's "Stone the Crow" is one of the great classic-rock anthems of its generation, worthy of Skynyrd. It's a haymaker of a song, with a mournful southern-rock riff, haunted vocals from a tortured soul and guitar harmonies that'll give you goosebumps. Down should own Cleveland. Because Cleveland's a classic rock…


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