Good Old Boys: Kings of Leon: Come Around Sundown (RCA)
Bud Scoppa, Rock's Backpages, October 2010
WHEN THE Followill brothers and their cousin Matthew first busted out of Tennessee in 2003 with the colorfully titled EP Holy Roller Novocaine, they were as green as a sapling — especially kid brother Jared, who'd been handed a bass only months previously by band mentor Angelo Petraglia and told to learn by playing along with Led Zeppelin CDs.
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