Lee Bains III, who plays St. Pete Brewing Co. in St. Petersburg, Florida on Aug. 7, 2025. Credit: Photo by Joe Steinhardt
In 2019, The Bitter Southerner suggested that Lee Bains III and his band The Glory Fires might’ve made “the Most Important Rock Record About the South Ever Released.”
Deconstructed lives up to the hype, even 15 years after its release, on the strength of red-hot rock and roll that doesn’t shy away from America’s troubled past.
Once signed to Sub Pop, Bains is on the road solo this time as part of his “Done Playing Dead” tour.
Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...
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