The Arbor Doves
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GB Kettering – Rock ’n’ Roll / Americana / Alt-Country / Country
The Arbor Doves

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With the Arbor Doves it’s not about an image.

Not self-mythology. Not the latest scene or the most convenient label. But rather it all boils down to the unique power of a great song to restore souls and spirits and lift them up.
The Arbor Doves are: singer/guitarist Rory O’Neill and guitarist Andy Odom; Lee Spence brings colour and texture to them on guitar and lap-steel; bassist Dave Tatnell and drummer Tobi Ripley add propulsion.
Listening to the full sweep of it might make one think of the windswept harmonies of the Eagles or the Byrds; the loose-limbed chugga-chugga of the Stones in their early-‘70s vintage; such heart-on-sleeve troubadours as Steve Earle and Garth Brooks. Its depths and nooks and crannies are revealed more with each listen.
But the rub of it is this: The Arbor Doves' music is ageless and boundless. It is a sound that articulates heartbreak and loss and soars to redemption. It is the sound of wide-open vistas and of bruised prairie skies; of a ribbon highway running to a distant horizon where the sun kisses the land orange and gold.
Both O’Neill – who grew up being weaned on country music by his parents’ Irish show-band and wanting to be Elvis – and Odom – a teenage Stones and Zeppelin freak who took the name of the band from the opening line of a poem written by his late father – have been working at their craft for years. It shows in every heart-tugging melody and iridescent chorus. It is sewn into the fabric of O’Neill’s hard-won lyrics and Odom's loose but immaculately crafted riffs. 
The songs are all for the Arbor Doves. And they speak volumes.