mice and rifles came together as a whole in January 2006.
The songs you hear are where this all begins...with country music. The old country music. Jailtime, wrecks, telegrams, family and, of course, women. Please visit www.doublestereo.com to check it out.
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Mice & Rifles: In God We Trust from George Irwin on Vimeo ............................................................
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"No luck to it; Mice & Rifles fire with steel-eyed precision." Doug Freeman, Austin Chronicle
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oking the sense of loneliness and isolation that all good country music should." JohnnyOthers, www.indieoma.com
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"...this group's a jarringly sharp entry into Austin's next-big-alt-country-thing sweepstakes, a contest that seems to have been going on since the cosmic cowboy era. Plain-spoken vocals somewhere between the honky-tonk and the Parish plus wide open Neil Young-esque guitars equals a pure prairie pleasure." Joe Gross XL, Austin American-Statesman
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"...this might be the most country thing about mice and rifles songs---choosing the heartbreak, loneliness and internal struggle with regret all for the sake of the song." www.austinsound.net
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"Dark pasts and forlorn memories are riddled throughtout the counrty-esque debut of mice and rifles." Carson Barker, Austin Music Magazine
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"...Mice and Rifles give a well-worn sound--namely, old-school country--a new spin." Adam Schragin, The Austin Independent