Motel Radio, Blackfoot Gypsies & Amy LaVere are Live from Peach St.
Live From The Divide continues intimate performances this summer, celebrating the lineage and contemporary voice of the American Roots singer/songwriter. Here’s a look at just a few of the upcoming acts.
Enjoy the talents of John Fullbright on Friday, June 22nd at 9pm. Tickets are $35 plus fees. Doors at 8pm.
If there’s a recurring motif that jumps out upon first listen to Fullbright’s latest album, Songs, it’s the act of writing – inhabits his songs’s narrators completely, his old-soul voice fleshing out complex characters and subtle narratives with a gifted sense of understatement. Fullbright possesses a keen ear for memorable melody and a unique approach to harmony, moving through chord progressions far outside the expected confines of traditional folk or Americana. His performances are stark and direct, though, a deliberate approach meant to deliver the songs in their purest and most honest form.
Motel Radio follows with a show on Saturday, June 23rd at 9pm. Tickets are $20 plus fees. Doors at 8pm.
The indie rock band from New Orleans was born out of a songwriting collaboration between college roommates Ian Wellman and Winston Triolo, and has since grown into a full band. The band’s Days and Nights EP earned them supporting slots for national acts such as Drive-By Truckers and Kurt Vile in addition to festival performances at Firefly, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and SXSW among others. Motel Radio’s atmospheric, harmony-driven sound and unique dual-frontman arrangement led to the release of a second EP, Desert Surf Films, in 2016.
Check out Blackfoot Gypsies on Sunday, June 24th at 9pm. Tickets are $25 plus fees. Doors at 8pm.
The Nashville-based powerhouse demonstrates raucous energy and soul on its latest collection, To the Top, delivering their take on white-knuckled rock n’ roll. The Gypsies fuse their influences – swamp blues cool, down-home hillbilly funk, and homegrown punk panache – into a lean, mean machine invoking such classic musical malcontents as the Rolling Stones, the Faces, and Mott the Hoople, while sparking and spitting 21st Century fire. It’s the type of record that could only come from a band that learned to rock the old-fashioned way – one sweaty, full-throttle live performance at a time.
Amy LaVere and Will Sexton close out the first month of summer with a show on Thursday, June 28th at 9pm. Tickets are $25 plus fees. Doors at 8pm.
A burgeoning star, LaVere is becoming renowned worldwide for her songwriting, bass playing, and vocals. She sings with a sweet, haunting voice that can turn on a dime from innocent to lusty (“Norah Jones with an added Cyndi Lauper element” – Mojo Magazine; “Spookiness suits her” – New York Times). Whether playing as a duo with her husband (Sexton) or with retro-country sensation Motel Mirrors, she’s an inventive, thoughtful singer-songwriter who has crowds throughout the US and Europe smitten. On their most recent album, Hallelujah I’m a Dreamer, the duo captures the immediacy of the live show they developed on the road together, reveling in a more stripped-down sound and celebrating the freedoms and limitations that come with it in stunning form. No Depression said simply: “pure bliss.”
Tickets are sold at the door, but these small shows are known to sell out quickly – so buy yours early! Tickets are available at Cactus Records or www.cactusrecords.net. Live is located at 627 E Peach St. in Bozeman. Visit www.livefromthedivide.com for a full lineup of performances and further information. •