Mass Recovery Fest - Artist Showcase #1: That Really Awesome Guy With a Guitar

Every day I'll be posting an Artist Showcase--a short introduction to each one of the bands playing Mass Recovery Fest this year. I've been lucky enough to enlist the help of Tony Marciello who wrote half the reviews including this one.

That Really Awesome Guy With a Guitar



That Really Awesome Guy with a Guitar sounds like a folksy interpretation of Drive-Thru Records’ glory days. TRAGWAG is emotive, clever, and unpretentious, sporting an array of refreshingly unrefined recordings. The songs are perfectly imperfect, like the widest smile from a kid who just lost their first tooth; is it as full as it could be? No, but it’s beautiful all the same.

Despite their name, That Really Awesome Guy with a Guitar is actually a Umass Lowell based duo featuring Tyler Bisson from Connecticut and Ali Lipman from Massachusetts. The two have released numerous recordings and are using their spring break time to tour up and down the east coast, after which they will be playing Mass Recovery Fest Day 1.