For certain things, using “classic” is a handy shortcut to saying what you mean: A classic car or a suit with a classic cut paint a perfect picture. And classic rock? It’s a sound you know immediately, and one that The Sidney Green Street Band has down.
The band’s front line has two longtime Glen Ridge residents: songwriter Lance Doss on guitar and vocals, and Justin Jordan also on guitar and vox. The rhythm section—bassist Paul Page and drummer Steve Holly—are based in NYC and play in Mott the Hoople leader Ian Hunter’s band. (How’s that for classic rock bona fides?)
And Doss sums up the band’s sweet spot succinctly: “The Sidney Green Street Band is a guitar band, plain and simple,” he says. He notes that each member of the quartet brings a particular pedigree into the classic rocking sound—Doss has Southern rock roots in Alabama; Jordan is schooled in the twin-guitar sound of 60s and 70s blues-rock and psychedelia; Page has played with Bo Diddley, Del Shannon, Ben E. King and many other early masters of the genre; and Holly has toured with Paul McCartney & Wings, Joe Cocker, and Chuck Berry, to name a few.
It’s more than name-the-influence, though. The band put out a full-length album this year called “SGSB” with 11 tracks of original songs with a blues-inflected classic rock sound. Want some guitar solos? Sit back and enjoy. (It’s available via iTunes, Amazon and CDBaby.)
The Sidney Green Street Band is playing a CD release show at the Great Notch Inn in Little Falls on December 4 at 9 pm. The music will be loud, and the sound will be classic.