Bowling Green Ohio is one of the mid west's typical college towns, filled with jocks,geeks,perpetual students and those who just acts the part. Where you have college towns you have bands a plenty,and in most cases lots of styles. What happens when those kids grow up,have family's, jobs they hate and bills to pay? They let off steam getting together to play music.Freedom comes with the deal too. No longer motivated by the same things a 20 year old is, you end playing music you love and if it impresses others great if it don't, screw em. The Black Swamp Rats are playing music they love and it shows in the care they took with their 1st full length CD Year Of The Black Swamp Rats. The recording is clean and very well balanced with no instrument out louding the other.Song styles and tempos range from strolling fuzzed out stoner jams, to driving fuzzed out stoner jams, to trippy grunge influenced rolls in the hay.My personal tastes have me digging the mid tempo songs that just teeter on the edge of break down or really going apeshit. The guitar work of Mike DeBose is very cool, and the songs as whole are wry,snappy and even have some pretty memorable melodies tucked in many of them.Bob Sadowy on guitar and vocals has voice that comes off as very unique.Personally I would like to hear what he would sound like letting his vox loose little ...but they do work very well for the bands style.Dave Hamblin on bass and Mark Barbour on drum hold a solid beat section and provide a great framework for a pretty darn good debut record.10 Songs which have several going into my play list such as "Saw You Shakin","Trailer Park Honey,Broken Ohio, Crawlin, and Quicksand.