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The Dirty Bourbon River Show Brings its Gypsy-Brass Circus Rock to Jazz Fest

May 1, 2014 by: Robert Fontenot

Right in the middle of one of Noah Adams’ patented speed raps, rapid-fire musings that reveal much about the sound and style of his musical troupe, Dirty Bourbon River Show, he drops a quote from the learned Samuel Johnson: “He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” Like Hunter S. Thompson, who also referenced it, the DBRS makes the kind of art—and, more i...

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