a foo with EXPENSIVE TASTE

It’s bitterly ironic that the most often ignored member of a band is the single most crucial in making a song work. Of course, we’re talking about the drummer (sorry, bassists). Taylor Hawkins is perhaps best known as “the drummer from the Foo Fighters” first and foremost, but the 47-year-old Texan is much more than just Dave Grohl’s beat monkey. Since ‘06, Hawkins has released five of modern rock ‘n’ roll’s most underrated gems – two of the best from that handful under the moniker of Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders with mates Nate Wood and Chris Chaney.

Now, nine years since dropping the inhumanly groovy Red Light Fever, Hawkins returns to the Coattail