with Brother Wolf
Sunday, June 24 • 6 p.m.
Blitzen Trapper is a Portland, Oregon-based experimental country/folk/rock band. Over the course of 18 years and nine full-length albums, Blitzen Trapper has crafted one of the more compelling and varied catalogs in contemporary rock and roll. Indeed, singer and guitarist Eric Earley, who is also the band’s primary songwriter, is possessed of a musical and lyrical sensibility that is remarkably deep and wide; big ideas and universal emotions are wrung from the seemingly plainspoken details of small-screen and often highly personal stories, and set to music that reaches way, way back to old-timey folk and bluegrass, travels through everything from country, psychedelia and soul to progressive, garage and metal, indulges gloriously in the classic rock of the 70s and 80s, and makes occasional side trips into hip-hop, skewed pop and noisy freakouts.
The band currently operates as a quintet, with Eric Earley (guitar/harmonica/vocals/keyboard), Erik Menteer (guitar/keyboard), Brian Adrian Koch (drums/vocals/harmonica), Michael Van Pelt (bass), and Marty Marquis (guitar/keyboards/vocals/melodica). Blitzen Trapper just released its ninth studio album, Wild and Reckless, which Eric Earley has described as a companion piece to their 2008 breakthrough album, Furr.
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Brother Wolf
This is a Rock Power Quartet with songs and a sound all their own. Promises to move you. Determined to shake you.
From the Desert Rock sounds of old Neil Young to the vain of the Civic-minded, modern day beast of James McMurtry, this band is rearing its head, making people pay attention and believe that there is more to come!