The members of J. Roddy Walston & the Business -- Walston on lead vocals and guitar, Billy Gordon on guitar, bassist Logan Davis and drummer Steve Colmus -- are baseball fans. They got together in Walston's hometown of Cleveland, Tenn., but adopted the Orioles as their team after relocating to Baltimore.

That makes sense, since their sound harkens back to the bluesy, groove-based rock of the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the Orioles built what had been a flagging American League also-ran into a dynasty. But the band also leans on Southern influences, such as the Stax/Volt soul bands of the 1960s. Especially "Sweat Shock," which we're happy to debut in this space.

If "Sweat Shock" sounds familiar to you, you might have heard it backing a Coors Light TV ad during football season. And you might have caught them on Austin City Limits with The Black Keys. (Here's a behind-the-scenes look at their Austin City Limits appearance, featuring "Heavy Bells," the first single off their current album, "Essential Tremors.")

As Steve Colmus explained in an email to ESPN Music, "Sports are a big part of life in Baltimore, as much as crabs, Old Bay and explaining to people that we don't live on the set of "The Wire."

Baltimore fans doubled down on the Orioles after the Colts left town, he said, "even during those dreadful late-80's years when there simply weren't enough Ripkens to undo a decade of roster mismanagement."

But things have changed.

"Now that the team is good again, the city is frenzied -- orange is everywhere, the stadium is packed, and Red Sox and Yankees fans can't down here and lord over our stadium because they can't afford tickets to their own," Colmus said. "Our baseball roots have come out in full force and guys from my dad's generation, who witnessed all the winning of the [Earl] Weaver years, are as touched by the mania as my generation, who have seen the Orioles in the playoffs just five times in 35 years. As a baseball town, We're Back."

J. Roddy Walston & the Business are on tour next month. Their March 5th show at the Taft Theater in Cincinnati is sold out, according to the band's website.