Rock And Roll Band - Gleasons Drift

“Just The Same Whatever“ moves you where the barnyard meets the barroom. The woohoo’s and wahwah’s are equal parts strutting rooster and lovable drunkard. Gleasons Drift is clearly comfortable behind the chicken wire breaking beer bottles into a sharp backbeat and tossing them back with a tingle of plunking piano and a jangle of snarky guitar. The songs on “Just The Same Whatever” present as the kind of honest, plain-spoken and regret-laden folks you might find counting the hours by their dollars on the counter…when the money’s gone they're back to the coop.

- Cabin Contemporary

“Appealing, ragged rockers in the mode of the Replacements.”

- Metropulse

“Procuring heartland Americana with an added punch, Gleasons Drift have always showcased themselves as an unpretentious bunch.
Ultimately, this is the way blue collar rock ought to sound -- solid, spirited and with more than the occasional ragged edge.”

- No Depression

“Rawk 'n' rollers Gleasons Drift offer nods to The Band, Creedence and The Replacements, crafting a classic barroom boogie that still manages to surprise."

- Pittsburgh City Paper

“Brilliant, classic, REAL American Rock and Roll.”

- Rock and Roll Circus (Madrid)

"Drop the needle or hit play and experience the back roads and bars oozing from every nook and cranny of these tasty, well-crafted songs."

- Mike Naydock, host

Cellarful of Noise WRKC Wilkes-Barre

“Rich in Midwestern garage tenacity, delicate vocal harmonies and a touch of British Invasion snark ‘n sass.”

- Weekender, Wilkes Barre, PA

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UPCOMING SHOWS

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Latest Past Events

December 31, 2024

West Shore Theater, New Cumberland, PA w/ Martini Bros.

December 22, 2024

Englewood, Hershey, PA

December 21, 2024

Hucklebucks, Pottsville, PA

Past Shows

ABOUT

Just as The Replacements will be forever linked to Minneapolis or The Meat Puppets to the Southwest Desert, Gleasons Drift is intrinsically defined by a small-town, rough-hewn esthetic filtered through a transistor radio channeling 1970s rock from an all-night far-off Philadelphia radio station.

Their love of unblemished bar-band optimism smashed headlong into twelve-bar blues and country punk feels right at home next to coal region Pennsylvania’s best-known exports – beer, pierogies, polkas and boilo.

Formed in 2003 in Northeastern Pennsylvania, Gleasons Drift is a group of old-school punky Rock and Rollers. Through 5 full length albums, a LIVE DvD, and 20+ singles on various compilations, the band wears the abridged history of Rock N’ Roll proudly on their sleeve. Boring, it’s not. It’s alive, and fresh, and teeming with as much girl group tenderness as blistering guitar breakup.