BoDeans at New Hope Winery

”I’ve always thought of the BoDeans as a truly American band, says Kurt Neumann, the founder, primary writer and frontman of the veteran Milwaukee-based group. We were blue-collar kids straight out of the heartlandhow could we be anything else? Roots rock was a label I fought when I was younger, but I came to realize that if by roots you meant blues, rock, country and soul all slammed together into one sound, then I’d say yes, that is the sound of American-made music.”