This
show is postponing and will be rescheduled for 2021, exact
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Friday May 29
2020 8:30PM
doors -- music at 9:00PM •••
21 AND OVER $20
The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit [co-headlining] country / americana
The Weary Boys [co-headlining] Classic country
Bob Sumner folk, country, americana
The
Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit Willy
Tea Taylor
Chris Doud
Taylor Webster
Aaron Burtch
Matt Cordano
-from Oakdale, CA -Take
two Americana singer-songwriters, an
indie-rock veteran of a drummer, country-born bassist, and metal-bred
pedal steel player, and what do you get: the rough-hewn yet
driftwood-smooth; rebel-headed, but heart-of-gold sound of The Good
Luck Thrift Store Outfit. The outfit includes singer-songwriters Chris
Doud and Willy Taylor, drummer Aaron Burtch, Taylor Webster on Bass and
vocals, and Matt Cordano on pedal steel and flying V guitar. They most
often defy categorization, usually settling for some hybrid of
Americana, folk, rock, bluegrass, and that sweet, old country &
western. They describe their efforts as trying to make good, honest,
insightful music, that's not afraid of a good time and a little fun,
that people will move their feet to, and that also goes real well with
a straight road and a long drive.
The
Weary Boys -from
Austin, TX -The
Weary Boys story begins in 2000, when
three friends, Brian Salvi, Darren Hoff and Mario Matteoli, left
Northern California for Austin, Texas to make a living playing music.
In a place like Austin, Texas, of course, aspiring musicians arrive
everyday. Something about The Weary Boys, though, was different.
Initially, the young trio toiled in trenches of a notoriously
competitive music scene. Their first jobs were on street corners, and
their first payments were mainly in coins. Almost immediately, however,
word of the young California vagabonds began to crisscross the circuits
of Austins music scene. With their huge cowboy hats, tattered jeans,
and the infectiously manic combination of telecaster, propulsive rhythm
guitar, demented fiddle and close harmony singing, the young trio
snapped Austin music lovers awake. In many ways, The Weary Boys seemed
to have stepped out of Austins musical past, reminding people of the
reasons Austin first gained fame as the home of outlaw country music in
the 1970s. In rapid succession, street corner gave way to happy hour,
happy hour to opening slot, opening slot to headlining slot, headlining
slot to festival stage. Ace Austin bassist Darren Sluyter joined the
band, and later, hometown friend and drummer Cary Ozanian came to play.
By the Summer of 2001 and the release of their first album, The Weary
Boys had dramatically ascended to the top of the Austin music scene.
Building on their popularity and critical acclaim in Austin, The Weary
Boys ventured into neighboring states, establishing enclaves of support
in cities throughout the South and Southwest, particularly in towns
with vibrant interest in roots music, such as Lafayette, Louisiana,
Seattle Washington and Tuscon, Arizona. In the process, they have also
opened shows for the likes of Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson, Leon
Russel, The Drive-By Truckers, Southern Culture on the Skids and many
others. They have played in backyards, front yards, notorious dives,
not-so notorious dives, festival stages and the Angola State
Penitentiary (twice). In the independent tradition of Austin musicians,
The Weary Boys have maintained control over their music, releasing an
album every year, managing and booking themselves. In their fifth and
latest release, Jumping Jolie, they continue to mine the fertile
musical ground between country, bluegrass and rock and roll, creating a
sound that defies strict classification. Texas has been good to Weary
Boys and they have returned the favor. A band of outlaws in an outlaw
town in a state that does things its own way, The Weary Boys continue
to remind us what country music is all about.
Bob
Sumner -from
Vancouver, BC, Canada -“I’m
kind of a junkie for sad songs and
ballads,” says Bob Sumner, the younger half of Vancouver-based
Americana outfit The Sumner Brothers. “As a teenager most of my friends
were into hip-hop, but I felt pretty out of place rolling around
suburban White Rock, British Columbia, pumping gangster rap.” Sitting
in his room with his headphones on, Sumner compiled downhearted
mixtapes pulling together the more introspective songs of CCR, The
Band, Led Zeppelin, Emmylou Harris. As he began writing his own songs,
this innate attentiveness to songcraft and emotional understanding
became a hallmark of Sumner’s songwriting and aesthetic. In the years
since, he’s released five albums with The Sumner Brothers, blending
sounds as disparate as Neil Young and The Dead Kennedys, but Bob
Sumner’s Wasted Love Songs (out January 25) presents Sumner back in the
bedroom, attentive to the quieter recordings of his formative years.
Helmed by the gentle intentionality of Sumner’s voice and lyricism,
this rare debut from a songwriting veteran expresses the timeless
quality found in the melancholy of Townes Van Zandt, the atmospheric
momentum of Tom Petty, and the prophetic restlessness of Bruce
Springsteen.
The culmination of
Sumner’s creative intention and sensitivity, Wasted
Love Songs is born out of an entwining of musical influences spanning
decades. With his brother Brian, he’s written and played finely tuned
songs erected at the borders of country and rock and roll for nearly 15
years, making the Sumner family name synonymous with the alternative
folk and country music scenes throughout the Pacific Northwest and
Western Canada. In the midst of The Sumner Brothers’ growing
orientation toward rock and roll in recent years, Bob Sumner felt the
draw toward his balladic roots. “I had all these ballads and folk songs
that worked really well together,” he says. “I wanted to make an album
someone could just put on and unfold into.”