Joe Fletcher & the Wrong Reasons

On my short list of freshman to watch at next weekend’s Newport Folk Festival, Joe Fletcher & the Wrong Reasons, an Americana band from Providence, won’t have to travel far for its set on Sunday. Last week, Joe spoke with a local reporter and delivered a nice little zing to pop country that I liked…

“I saw a band at my mom’s house the other day on ‘Ellen Degeneres,’” he recalls, shaking his head. “It was some country star — I forget who it was — but it sounded like AC/DC, and there’s steel guitars but you can’t hear them. It was like a rock and roll band with cowboy hats. They were dressed like a country band, but that was about it.”

Check out this live vid of the band performing the opening track off of its latest album, White Lighter. This is called “Say What You Will.”