Local duo The Road Agents will match the brisk winter elements with an always warmly energetic performance later this month. The band will deliver a night of originals and crowd-pleasers on Friday, January 23rd, at The Grey Dog in Bozeman. Music begins at 9pm.
After nearly a decade playing in the far-flung dives, breweries, bars, saloons, distilleries, streets, farmers markets and forest service cabins around Montana, from Molt to Malta, Polebridge to Polaris, and points in between, The Road Agents have leveled up. In the past the Agents ran as an acoustic duo (guitar, mandolin, singing), often enhanced with a third or fourth co-conspirator on electric guitar, harmonica, fiddle, or whatever instrument was lying around.
For their new record, Strange Cowboys, bossman and songwriter Jeff Peterson recruited a full band for a bigger sound somewhere between the junction of Americana roots, outlaw country, rock n’ roll and bluegrass, with a dash of psychedelia thrown in.
The result is a big, crazy record that, via Peterson’s lyrics about the landscape and the bad decisions made upon it, takes a journey across Montana and the American West, past, present and future, for better and for worse, warts and all.
The Road Agents’ Grey Dog show includes support from local string band Stolen Bibles, featuring Peterson, Ian Oehler and Eli Quist. Learn more about the group and access their original music at www.montanaroadagents.com. •
