Gill Landry, Jesse Dayton & Scott H. Biram are Live

Live From The Divide continues intimate performances in April, celebrating the lineage and contemporary voice of the American Roots singer/songwriter. Here’s a look at just a few of the upcoming acts.
Gill Landry is first up on Tuesday, April 3rd at 8pm. Tickets are $25 plus fees. Doors at 7pm.
Landry is a Louisiana-born singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and former street busker who balances a solo career with his job as a member of the Nashville folk group Old Crow Medicine Show. He’s touring in support of his latest release, Love Rides a Dark Horse. The album breaks new ground for Landry with contributions from fiddler Ross Holmes (Mumford & Sons, Bruce Hornsby), keyboard player Skylar Wilson (Andrew Combs, Rayland Baxter), and drummer Logan Matheny (Roman Candle, Rosebuds). The songs explore a more seductive, stripped-down sound built upon a hushed sense of intimacy that calls to mind Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits. The album’s tattered narratives cast aside romanticism in favor of reality.
Jesse Dayton and Scott H. Biram follow with a joint performance on Sunday, April 15th at 8pm. Tickets are $35 plus fees. Doors at 7pm.
Dayton has been building a cult following around the globe playing festivals in North America and Europe for years with his guitar shredding, country-infused Americana sound. As a critic’s darling for his first record, Raisin’ Cain, he was hired at a young age to play lead guitar on some of the last recordings, and play live, by country legends Waylon Jennings, Ray Price, Johnny Bush, Willie Nelson and Glen Campbell. His latest album, The Revealer, is available now.
A walk on the Biram side straddles the chasm between sin and redemption and his latest album, The Bad Testament, lands somewhere west of the Old Testament and south of an AA handbook. It’s a record of hard-grinding lost love, blues and deep, dark Americana. The man writes on a razor’s edge of aggression and deftness, thoroughly contemporary but steeped in the backwaters, back porches and back alleys of our collective musical heritage.
Indie folksters The Brevet bring a show on Tuesday, April 24th at 8pm. Tickets are $25 plus fees. Doors at 7pm.
When the feedback-laden, distorted-as-all-hell guitar intro to the band’s new single, “Locked & Loaded,” grinds to a crawl and lead singer Aric Chase Damm’s gritty vocals kick in, there’s a moment where – if you’ve got an ounce of soul in your body – your foot starts tapping almost involuntarily. The “woah-oh-oh” hook that hits next is the kind you feel in your bones, the eminently danceable kind that makes you want to shoot straight up, kick your chair back, and move. Every second, “Locked & Loaded” begs for movement, an earworm that simply refuses to quit.
As the lead single off the band’s upcoming record, LEGS, the song performs a crucial task: Not only is it a representation of the band’s new sound and of what fans can expect from the forthcoming album, it is an indication of how far the band has come since their previous release, American Novel – a groundbreaking, highly acclaimed LP, released in a series of chapters. The group’s sophomore album was preceded by the Brevet’s debut record, Battle of the Heart, and earned the band beaming reviews.
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.