The Yawpers

A rootsy three-piece whose sound puts a dark, punk-influenced undertow on the blues, the Yawpers play hard-hitting songs that touch on culture and class as well as the emotional trials of ordinary lives. The Yawpers make music that is by turns intimate and anthemic, full of smart storytelling that bears the ring of truth. The band's first full-length album, 2015's American Man, was a rootsy effort that was dominated by their rough-and-tumble fusion of rock and blues, while the follow-up, 2017's Boy in a Well, was a raucous but literate concept album that moved back and forth b...