and the results are in

Good people, the results are in.  Thanks to you and your amazing ability to wage democracy across the world (or at least the intertubes), we were named Best Roots Act in the Boston Phoenix’s Best Music Poll. The Phoenix was so inspired by your show of force that they wrote some nice stuff:

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If you consider rootsy Americana to be a dour yoke worn by groups of dreary Luddites afraid to cut loose a nd join the modern world, then you haven’t heard Kingsley Flood. Their roots cred owes to the masterful fiddle and mandolin playin’ and the whiff of Appalachia found on their debut, Dust Windows, but the music’s sheer exuberance is beyond time or genre. And though they’re capable of quiet introspection and moments of majestic solemnity (as on the organ-heavy “Cathedral Walls”), their fans ticked the ballot for the hip-shaking enthusiasm of their more boisterous moments (imagine a shotgun wedding gone off the rails). Lead Flooder Naseem Khuri has the authority in his voice to keep the whole thing from coming off like po’-faced creative anachronism, and the band’s boundless giddiness is enough to make you never want to hear a synthesizer again.

We can’t thank you enough for your support. Not only did you exercise your impressive ability to rock the vote, but you withstood our annoying emails to do so.  Go freedom!
6.10.10- Uncle Sam rock