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A concert review of the provocative bluesy rock band that’s turning heads.

Courtesy of Cravery

It’s poetry beat box meets string quartet. “This is the grey area of rock and roll,” C.R. Avery tells the Toronto crowd Thursday night at CBC’s Glenn Gould studio as he launches into his mish-mash of bluegrass, funk, folk, rock and comedy. I could have been at the Dakota tavern on Ossington Street, or, once the beat boxing through the harmonica started, at a club in the Entertainment District. At first I wasn’t so sure, but as soon as the violins were in full-throttle alongside electric guitar and cello thumping, I felt as though there was a viscous trampoline seeping into my body. I just wanted to get up and bounce.

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