Explaining Marty O’Reilly’s music is like explaining a dream. It feels familiar, but at the same time uncharted. His songs sound bluesy but not blues, folky but not folk, soulful but not soul.

Marty’s voice is beautiful and unique, his lyrics stark yet lush over gritty electrified guitar, melding beautifully into genre-defying music within the vast definitions of Americana. You can hear an urgency and complexity in the songs, expressing something elemental and perhaps contradictory: love and anger, joy and pain, real and imagined.

He and a few others will help The Virgil celebrate their third anniversary.