The Whigs with The Features  

About The Features

It’s been four years since Nashville, TN’s best kept secret The Features snuck onto our speakers with their critically lauded debut, Exhibit A.  The record strengthened their already rabid hometown cult following and won over critics in both the US & UK press while shows with Kings of Leon, the Raconteurs and The Walkmen and sets at Redding & Leeds festivals showed off their brazenly flawless live show. Quite suddenly, The Features disappeared and left us wondering what had happened to the Southern four piece who were bound to become our next favorite band. But now, with trademark pop hooks and stellar songwriting in tow, The Features are returning this spring with an off-kilter masterpiece of a sophomore album, Some Kind of Salvation, due out May26th.  The album will be distributed nationwide by Red Eye Distribution. 

 

The Features formed as middle-schoolers in Sparta, Tennessee, a small Southern town that boasts bluegrass picker Lester Flatt as its claim to fame.  The group of classic rock-loving adolescents had big ideas while sitting in the school cafeteria, but they hadn’t acquired instruments yet.  Due to the lack of a proper drum set, the Features first generation percussion section was beat box, and no one was eager to play bass.  Bassist Roger Dabbs remembers the band’s sales tactics.  

 

“They were like, ‘man, you gotta love the bass!” he says. “‘Listen to this bass.’ They put on some AC/DC and I was kind of like…‘where’s the bass?’  It was completely drum and guitar heavy. But I ended up really loving the instrument.