Outdoor Jams: Lake Street Dive usher in fall. Bridger Brewing hosts Lake Street Dive on Mon., Sept. 10th at 7pm
photo by Shervin Lainez
The Dusty Pockets perform a special tribute to The Allman Brothers & Little Feat on Wednesday, September 5th for the last of the “2018 Cannery District Patio Series” beginning at 7pm. The Bozeman band explores genres from blues and country, to folk and soul. They’re most comfortably described as purveyors of American roots music. The fellas seek to tell meaningful stories, delivered with grit, wrapped in beautiful melodies and driven by powerful grooves. The Dusty Pockets’ debut album, Hard Line, is available now. Held outside Wildrye Distilling, Dean’s Zesty Booch and 406 Brewing, tickets to this all-ages event are $10, also available at the door. Doors at 6pm.
In collaboration with ChickenJam, Bridger Brewing will host another edition of its popular outdoor music concert series featuring Lake Street Dive on Monday, September 10th at 7pm. Tickets for this all-ages event are $36 and available at Cactus Records, or the door, depending on availability. Note: every online ticket purchase for the show includes a copy of the band’s new album, Free Yourself Up.
The title of Lake Street Dive’s new album is both an exhortation to listeners and a statement of purpose for the band. The songs have an infectious swagger, even when dealing with awkward breakups or the unsettled state of our world. Free Yourself Up is their most confident album yet, seriously soulful and exuberantly rocking. And, in many ways, it is Lake Street Dive’s most intimate and collaborative, with the band itself taking over the production reins and working as a tightly knit unit to craft these ten songs. In addition, the quartet drafted touring keyboardist Akie Bermiss to join them in the studio, literally freeing the band up to explore a wider range of instrumental textures, construct more full-bodied arrangements, and build stacks of lively background harmonies. Free Yourself Up‘s sound is influenced by late sixties-early seventies R&B, AM pop, and FM rock while the lyrics are informed more by contemporary events. Read The BoZone’s interview with Lake Street’s Rachael Price on Page 4C.
Nashville vocalist and guitarist Patrick Sweany performs at The Filling Station on Tuesday, September 11th at 9pm. The funky blues-rocker is touring in support of his latest LP, Ancient Noise. Recorded with Grammy Award-winning engineer and producer Matt Ross-Spang, the album released in May. Tickets to this 21+ show are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. Doors at 8pm.
“If the blues torch stands a chance of being passed down to the next generation, it’s going to be by the works of artists like Gary Clark Jr. and Patrick Sweany,” wrote a reviewer for American Songwriter. “By mingling the spirit of the blues with a firm singer-songwriter grasp, Patrick Sweany has tapped into a gripping musical direction that feels like a natural and effective way to update the basics of the genre without losing, or diluting, its inherent edge.”
Country crooner Thomas Gabriel is set for a Filling Station show on Saturday, September 15th at 9pm. Tickets to this 21+ show are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Doors at 8pm.
T.G. – as those closest call him – is the oldest grandchild of Johnny Cash. Predominately raised on the road, he often dreamed of a life as a successful career musician. When he was young, his grandfather would call him onstage, to sing “When the Saints Go Marching In.” Along with his voice that sounds so much like his grandfather’s, Gabriel brings a wealth of stories from his memories of his childhood and of growing up a member of such an iconic family.
Shook Twins return to the Filling Station with help from Kelly Nicholson Band on Wednesday, September 19th at 9pm. Tickets to this 21+ show are $15 in advance and $18 at the door. Doors at 8pm.
Portland’s indie folk-pop band is fronted by identical twins, Katelyn and Laurie, who serve as the band’s main songwriters. Central to Shook Twins’ sound is their wide range of instrumentation: banjo, acoustic and electric guitars, electric bass, mandolin, electronic drums, face drum (beat-box), glockenspiel, ukulele, banjo-head drumming and their signature Golden Egg. Beautiful twin harmonies, layered upon acoustic and electric instrumentation – coupled with Laurie’s inventive use of percussive and ambient vocal loops, and Katelyn’s re-purposed telephone microphone – set their sound apart, creating a unique and eccentric blend of folk, roots, groove and soul.
Advance tickets for these shows are available in-store at Cactus Records and www.cactusrecords.net. For more information, visit www.chickenjamwest.com. •
