Scene readers voted the Whiskey Daredevils (pictured) Cleveland’s best new band of the year, and they were right on the money. Two of the area’s other top raucous, country-fried rock bands will join the Daredevils at the Grog for an evening of bass-slappin’, hell-raisin’, and whiskey-swillin’. Anyone caught not having a good time will be taken out back and beaten with a hickory switch.

This article appears in Dec 7-13, 2005.