Hillstomp album release, Old Salt Union & more at Filling Station

ChickenJam West will present Jonathan Richman on Tuesday, October 2nd at 8pm. Tickets to this 21+ show are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Doors at 7pm.
Richman has been playing music, recording and touring for most of his life. He and his drummer Tommy Larkins win fans wherever they play. In the early 1970s, Richman formed the noted band The Modern Lovers. Tommy Larkins was in the groups Naked Prey, Giant Sand and other popular bands in Tucson, Arizona.
Upstate Rubdown follows on Wednesday, October 3rd at 9pm. Tickets to this 21+ show are $7 in advance and $10 at the door. Doors at 8pm.
The acoustic septet draws inspiration from every corner and decade of America’s musical heritage. Based in New York’s Hudson Valley region, the band has spent years cultivating its sound, and continues to grow by the tune. The instrumentation includes Harry D’Agostino (upright bass), Ryan Chappell (mandolin), Dean Mahoney (cajón), and Christian Joao (flute, alto/baritone saxophone). The dynamic rhythm section supports a three-part vocal harmony powerhouse of founding members Mary Kenney and Melanie Glenn with recent Nashville-transplant Allison Olender. The group’s 2015 release, A Remedy, is available now.
Hillstomp celebrate the release of their new album, Monster Receiver, with help from The Salamanders on Saturday, October 6th at 10pm. Tickets to this 21+ show are $11 in advance and $15 at the door. Doors at 9pm.
The Portland junkbox blues duo is infamous for digging through the dumps and forgotten backwoods of American music, recycling traditional elements into a refreshing and distinctive brand of do-it-yourself hill country blues stomp. North Mississippi trance blues, a bit of Appalachia, and a dash of punkabilly come clanging and tumbling from assorted buckets, cans and BBQ lids, all drenched in rambunctious slide guitar. Somehow it works. Despite their homemade instruments and novel approach, Hillstomp is no novelty act. Their memorable live performances tap into a magic that cannot be rehearsed, converting outlaws and traditionalists alike from skeptics into preachers.
       Old Salt Union is next up on Thursday, October 11th at 9pm. Tickets to this 21+ show are $7 in advance and $10 at the door. Doors at 8pm.
Out of Illinois, the string band was founded by a horticulturist, cultivated by classically trained musicians, and fueled by a vocalist/bass player who is also a hip-hop producer with a fondness for the Four Freshmen. It is this collision of styles and musical vocabularies that informs their fresh approach to bluegrass and gives them an electric live performance vibe that seems to pull more from Vaudeville than the front porch. The band’s self-titled 2017 release combines instrumental proclivities with pop melodies and harmonies into a coherent piece of work that carves out a road-less-travelled for the band in the now crowded roots music genre.
The Last Revel are back in Southwest Montana with a Danny Barnes-supported session on Friday, October 19th at 9pm. Tickets to this 21+ show are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Doors at 8pm.
The Last Revel are a Minneapolis-based trio of powerfully talented multi-instrumentalists who naturally blend the genres of folk, rockabilly, old time string-band and rock to create a sound equally original and timeless. They’re known to consistently deliver “bombastic live performances,” as well as delicate and haunting folk ballads. Their latest album, Hazard & Fate, showcases the band’s ability to create rich and delicately textured recorded material with a modern “tip of the hat” to the storied history of American folk music.
Banjo player extraordinaire and recipient of the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass, Danny Barnes is described as “one of a kind” and widely acknowledged as “one of the best banjo players in America.” Barnes is recognized for his experimental sound. The raw and unpolished musical breadth of his compositions has propelled him across the industry today. Barnes has released a number of popular albums including 2006’s Stove Up, available now.
Globetrotting riot jazzers Youngblood Brass Band stop in for a performance on Saturday, October 20th at 10pm. Tickets to this 21+ show are $9 in advance and $10 at the door. Doors at 9pm.
Born in Madison, Wisconsin, the group flouts convention in an ecstatic, raucous, incendiary fashion, taking the form of a New Orleans brass band and morphing it into a punked-out hip-hop behemoth of groove and purpose. The ten-member ensemble has been unleashing their crash course in genre-bending worldwide since 1998. Youngblood Brass has headlined countless tours in the States and abroad, selling out dates in over 20 countries. Their festival resumé reads like a list of the heaviest music events in the world: Roskilde, Glastonbury, Lowlands, Pukkelpop, SXSW, CMJ, North Sea Jazz, WOMAD, ad infinitum. White-hot live shows secured the band’s status as an incredible group to witness, whether in an intimate club setting or in front of thousands on a festival stage. Youngblood’s brand new EP, Covers 1, is available now.
Advance tickets for these Filling Station shows are available in-store at Cactus Records and www.cactusrecords.net. For more information, visit www.chickenjamwest.com.