The Brook and The Bluff brings swamp rock spirit for MSU Music Maker’s concert

Contact: Harriet Laird

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Swamp rock kicks off November for Mississippi State’s Music Maker Productions when The Brook and The Bluff brings its stacked vocal sound to Rick’s Café.

The four-piece band is the headliner on Nov. 2 at 9 p.m., with Starkville’s own Bella and the Donnas opening at 8 p.m.

With almost a decade of touring in the books, The Brook and The Bluff has earned hundreds of millions of streams with such fan favorites as “Halfway Up” and “Everything is Just a Mess.” Their latest album “Werewolf” was released in March, after three earlier albums “Bluebeard,” “Yard Sale” and “First Place.”

Currently on the Werewolf tour, the band began in 2015 as a duo in Auburn, Alabama, and spent the early years in Birmingham where their name originated from the suburbs of Mountain Brook and Bluff Park. According to frontman Joseph Settine, their sound is “loud, melodic and deeply human,” and has been described by music critics in the same spirit as Creedence Clearwater Revival, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and The Eagles.

With several years of headline tours and festival performances giving the band widespread exposure, so has the experience of supporting artists like Noah Kahan, The Avett Brothers and Mt. Joy.

Concert tickets are $10 for MSU students and $15 for all others. To order, visit msstate.universitytickets.com or purchase in person in MSU’s Center for Student Activities, Colvard Student Union second floor. For more details, call the center at 662-325-2930.