your system and motivates you to
listen to thing in adulthood.
Growing up in these environ-
ments that then led some of us
down a harder punk rock and
metal path later in life is probably
a big sound difference from other
roots rock bands. We all played in
other bands with a harder sound
at one point or another which we
never lost.
We also don’t generally play
traditional songs a lot of people
have heard of, such as ‘Whiskey
in the Jar’ or ‘Tell Me Ma.’ We
lean toward more obscure tunes
that speak more to us as individu-
als then what everyone else ends
up learning. That being said, our
name is about the ‘everyday per-
son.’ We are ‘the commoners,’ the
‘regular folks’ or ‘the masses.’ Each
one of these turn of phrase evokes
a different imagery, but they’re all
synonymous with one another, the
same way our songs may not be
what everyone knows, but every-
one can get behind. All the stories
we tell are ones that everyone can
relate to.
Watch Mass Folk Commons perform “The Butterfly Set”
NJ STAGE 2017 - Vol. 4 No. 9
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