hoots & hellmouth @ the pour house

The first time I saw Philadelphia’s hard-rocking, green-living, roots rockers Hoots & Hellmouth, they were touring without a drummer; just two stomp-boxes, four tambourines, and a mandolin that somehow manages to transcend stringed instruments and become percussion. (God, isn’t it wonderful, how the mandolin can do that? It’s one of those instruments that, when played…