RISING from the Nashville garage underground, Promised Land Sound are to tour Britain for the first time.

Please Please You promoter Joe Coates has been quick off the mark to book them for the Fulford Arms for February 2. "Expect plenty of country licks, a little wigging out and some shimmering guitar pop," says Joe. "This is seriously top stuff from the wonderful Paradise Of Bachelors label, who have already brought you Steve Gunn, Nap Eyes, Gun Outfit and Hiss Golden Messenger."

Promised Land Sound, Nashville’s finest purveyors of febrile root-work psychedelia, chose to begin at the beginning; they named themselves after an immortal road-dogging Chuck Berry jam and proceeded from there.

In the line-up are the Scala brothers, bassist and lead singer Joey and drummer and vocalist Evan, who hailed originally from Roanoke, Virginia but moved to Tennessee in 2000, where Joey met guitar prodigy Sean Thompson and played in a succession of Nashville bands together before beginning to write in earnest as a team.

Promised Land Sound's self-titled debut in 2013 mined the same red dirt/swamp boogie as the Flying Burritos, Gene Clark, Jesse Ed Davis, Link Wray, The Band, CCR, Dennis Linde, Johnny Darrell et al. Second album For Use And Delight followed in 2015, building on their country, soul, pop and psych palette.

The band now comprises the two Scalas, Thompson and Nashville stalwarts Peter Stringer-Hye, on rhythm guitar and vocals, and Mitch Jones on keyboards. Jones handled co-production duties and string arrangements on their sophomore record.

Support acts on the 7.30pm bill will be Aloe Veras and Wolf Solent; tickets cost £7 from pleasepleaseyou.com or in person from The Inkwell, Gillygate, York, and Jumbo Records, St John's Centre, Leeds, or £9 on the door.