Concert Review: Peach Tree Rascals Are My Bowery Boys
Watching Peach Tree Rascals was so fun because they felt like my “boys.” They were the equivalent to every night we spent at someone’s home drinking or in a parking lot acting like it was the Ritz. They embody every moment that you were in your friend’s car singing your heart, and feeling like even though you had no specific place you were going, you felt more purposeful than ever. Why? Because life is about moving not about arriving.
NEWS FLASH! There is no place to arrive to in your life. You are not a destination; you are a series of multiple journeys happening at once with only two determined destinations: your birth and your death … the latter one being up for grabs. The rest is a bunch of emotional road-trips and pit-stops of choices that Peach Tree Rascals seem to glide by with friendship, laughs, and music that hits you so easy you feel like punches are the same as being offered a bouquet of roses. Imagine that! What if everything that hit you was actually a gentle push to move yourself? That dynamic is why their show felt like the most invigoratingly, effortless thing I have ever seen.
It was just easy. I cannot tell you that they were the greatest group in the world with then best music and talent I have ever seen because that is NOT what they are about. They are about genuine joy; the goofiness and glee that comes with hearing a good track and not self-sabotaging yourself and over-thinking about its depth. Sometimes, good music is truly about good music…… and good people. While the audience was very packed for these Covid times, it also spaced out and up like, there was room in our heads and hearts to shift around. In essence, it was the most packed show for feeling really free and flowing.
I hope I did Peach Tree Rascals justice because I REALLY LIKE THEM! There is something special about how they are exuberantly inclusive, and their music feels harmless and fun; as if no malice just happiness went into every lyric, every sound, and every vibe. In essence, they are that joy ride with friends, and you want to be their friend.
