</p> <p>I wish I’d seen <a href="http://www.magnoliacollective.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Magnolia Collective</a> more times over the past few years, either playing late on a weekday at The Station or some other low-lit room in the Triangle. Saturday night at Local 506, they opened for Michigan’s <a href="http://www.frontierruckus.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frontier Ruckus</a>. While the two bands have very different variations on Americana, the bill worked. Magnolia mixed several styles, from, alt-country and blues to psychedelic rock and just plain old rock ’n’ roll. As notoriously indifferent as Chapel Hill crowds can be, they bobbed their heads to the strums as though this was the band they came to see. And maybe next time it will be. </p> <p><iframe loading="lazy" width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/A_KbeWHmxc0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""/></p>
