Seafoam Green

★★★★ Martin’s Garden

MELLOWTONE. CD/DL/LP

Duo’s second wellconnected album of gospelsoul-blues.

As proven by their 2016 debut Topanga Mansion, country blues and Southern soul are Seafoam Green’s wheelhouse. In spite of the raw deep groove they make, the duo of Dave O’Grady and Muireann McDermott Long hail not from some Missouri backwater but Dublin, and are now based in Liverpool. With Tedeschi Trucks Band’s Tyler Greenwell sitting in on the drummer’s stool and also occupying the producer’s chair, they’re more than the real deal as they slide and boogie their way through

Martin’s Garden. If you need more confirmation of their ‘chops’, that debut album was produced by The Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson. What sets Seafoam Green apart from mere bar band, however, is the easy blending of those Irish roots into their swing, no more obviously than on a scorching version of Brendan Behan’s The Auld Triangle, pitching O’Grady’s nicotine growl against McDermott Long’s holler on a near faultless album.