ChickenJam serves up Dusty Pockets, free AJ Fullerton show & a Southern-fried Ruckus
The Buffalo Ruckus
ChickenJam West presents Southeast reggae band The Movement performing with help from KBong and Cole & the Thornes at the Filling Station on Friday, February 1st at 8pm. Tickets to this 21+ show are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. Doors at 7pm.
Formed in 2003 by a trio of Sublime and Pixies fans, The Movement’s debut album On Your Feet has been heralded as one of the “top 10 reggae rock albums of all time,” and the band has toured with legends from 311 to Parliament, Slightly Stoopid to Dirty Heads, Wu-Tang Clan, Steel Pulse, Stick Figure, Pepper, and more. Their most recent album, Golden, hit #1 on iTunes and Billboard Reggae charts and was voted 2016 Album of the Year by Surf Roots Radio. In recent years, the band has toured amphitheaters around the United States and performed at landmark events including Cali Roots Festival, Reggae Rise Up, Levitate Festival, One Love Cali Reggae Fest, and Closer to the Sun. The band’s new album is due Spring 2019.
On Saturday, February 2nd, Missoula’s Dodgy Mountain Men open for The Dusty Pockets at the Filler at 8pm. Tickets to this 21+ show are $9 in advance and $12 at the door. Doors at 7pm.
Bozeman’s Dusty Pockets tell meaningful stories, delivered with grit, wrapped in beautiful melodies and driven by powerful grooves. Their self-invented genre, “recreational Americana,” is indicative of the band’s mission to make seriously good music and have fun at the same time.
Their debut release, Hard Line, is a ten-song album that cherry-picks from the band’s wide and growing catalog of original songs. Centered on a strong foundation of American musical traditions, Hard Line and the band’s live shows showcase a collection of tunes that scratch the itch for twang, soul, and rock n’ roll all at once.
Eric Funk, producer of the Emmy-award winning PBS show, 11th & Grant, describes frontman Dave Walther’s “timeless voice” and The Dusty Pockets as “old blues, rock-inspired, jazz-infused.”
Colorado blues and progressive roots artist AJ Fullerton will bring a FREE performance to the Zebra Cocktail Lounge on Thursday, February 7th at 9pm. This show is 21+. Doors at 8pm.
Fullerton is known for his skillful guitar and powerful vocals. His style of playing falls somewhere between the fingerpicking slide of country roots and the groove-based, uptempo sensibilities of blues and rock n’ roll. His debut album, Kalamath, is available now.
Back at the Filling Station, Texas group The Buffalo Ruckus is set for Wednesday, February 13th at 8pm. Tickets to this 21+ show are $7 in advance and $10 at the door. Doors at 7pm.
The band’s music has been described as a compendium of roots, Americana, Southern soul, psychedelic postmodern avant-garde and experimental country-fried rock. The songwriting is pure and soulful with stories of heritage, spirituality, redemption, love gained and love lost. Spun from the timbers of heart and soul, Buffalo Ruckus’ latest album, Peace & Cornbread, is available now.
Looking ahead, Scott Pemberton Band returns to Bozeman with a Filler show on Thursday, February 28th at 9pm. Tickets to this 21+ event are $9 in advance and $12 at the door. Doors at 8pm.
Frontman Scott Pemberton’s sound is much like the vibe of his native Portland: freaky, fun, and just the right amount of weird. The best way to categorize his music is with the moniker “Timber Rock,” also the title of his latest album. Pemberton naturally applies his own lens/stamp to the sounds of the Pacific Northwest, the region he has always called home. The deep jazz, NW rock/grunge, blues roots, and the West Coast funk. It’s all there, and often all in the same song. The mastery of his guitar playing combined with the fun recklessness of his songwriting show that the rules of songwriting and playing the guitar no longer exist for him. Pemberton plays with the uninhibited joy and intensity of someone who recognizes that every time we make music is an honor and a gift.
Advance tickets for these and other shows are available in-store at Cactus Records and www.cactusrecords.net. For more information, visit www.chickenjamwest.com. •
