Sister Hazel Could be Interesting After All

By Kyle Lawson

As you must be sure by now, this year’s Fall Concert CAB got for us the band Sister Hazel. Now for anyone who was too young to really remember them, Sister Hazel had a hit back in 1997 “All for You.” Thank God they have continued making music, since I truly look forward to the day when I will hear 90s music at parties and feel old just for hearing the music. Their most recent album Release was released in August, and has received fairly good reviews.

From what I have heard of their more recent songs, they are not bad. If you are into southern rock, acoustic rock, post-grunge (whatever that means), and alternative rock then you will enjoy the concert. If you also like standing mostly still at concerts with the occasional swaying listening to generic 90s-sounding music, then you will enjoy the concert. If you want to be able to jump around and dance, you might just want to have an impromptu dance party in your room.

I’m going to say right now that I have misgivings about this. In 2006, CAB thought it would be great to bring Pat Greene, and I still don’t know who that is or if I even got his name spelled right, and I don’t care. CAB decided to hold this concert in the Junction instead of the Ballroom for some ridiculous reason. CAB redeemed itself in 2007 with the MySpace Concert Tour which included Say Anything, HelloGoodbye, an entertaining Japanese band, and a crappy band from LA. It was a good concert. Last year Reel Big Fish and Augustana, along with an unknown band from Virginia entertained us all. Or at least Reel Big Fish and the band from Virginia did. Augustana sucked.

I have seen CAB hit and miss, and I would want to know who the other bands that CAB is supposedly getting are. Otherwise I might decide to skip this concert, despite the lower-priced tickets. At some point, once the names of the other bands performing, if there are any, there will be an update. At the moment the resounding answer to whether or not the concert will be good is a resounding “eh, maybe.”