Catherine Feeny & Chris Johnedis’ mesmerizing video for “Against You”premiers this week at Magnet Magazine.
The sparse and haunting track, along with all of it’s siblings, will be available in vinyl form and digitally for the first time on April 21. You can preorder at iTunes, or right here (yep, there are cds too!)
Thanks to Keith Rivers for your amazing work on the video!
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Anna Tivel will hit the road this month, supporting Portland-based Hip Hatchet on their Northwest record release tour. Check out the dates below!
April 17 – Secret Society, Portland OR – 8:30pm, $8
April 18 – The Green Frog, Bellingham WA – 7pm, $5
April 19 – Sunset Tavern, Seattle WA – 8pm, $8
April 22,23 – Adrift Inn, Long Beach WA – 8pm
April 24 – Voodoo Room, Astoria WA
April 25 – House Show, Eugene WA
April 26 – Oberon’s Tavern, Ashland OR – 9pm, Donation
April 27 – House Show, Reno NV
April 28 – Scandinavia, Emeryville CA
April 29 – Pine Street Saloon, Paso Robles CA
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On January 20, 2015, Fluff and Gravy Records will be releasing an expanded 2x LP version of Dogs in the Daylight. The doubel lp set will include 4 exclusive bonus tracks in addition to the 15 tracks that make up the original cd pressing. The pre-order link can be found here, and will ship in mid-January.
“Dogs in the Daylight is as close to a masterpiece as a folk album by an emerging singer-songwriter can get” – NoDepression
“It’ll give you shivers” – The Bluegrass Situation
“It’s tough to pinpoint exactly what it is that sets certain singer/songwriters apart from other singer/songwriters, other than the thoroughness with which their songs turn your guts inside out. And by that measure, Martin is way ahead of the pack” – Portland Mercury
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Jeffrey Martin’s new record, Dogs in the Daylight, is full of all kinds of wondrous, dark and absorbing tales. One of those is Coal Fire, which he discusses with our friends at The Bluegrass Situation, who are premiering the track today.
“I came across a story a while ago about an entire town in Pennsylvania that was forced to relocate due to an underground coal fire that had been burning for at least 40 years,” Martin tells The Bluegrass Situation. “Nobody knew it was there or how far it had burned, and then the people’s well water started boiling and smoke started hissing up through their backyards. The whole idea of something burning under the surface, beneath everything we know, seemed so haunting to me.”
Check out the full article and listen to the track here
Every week, Elwood Blues (aka Dan Akyroyd) picks his favorite new blues song of the week and plays it on his show TheBluesMobile. He calls the feature “Blues Breaker“, and this week we are honored that he has chosen Hillstomp‘s Santa Fe Line, from their latest record Portland, Ore. Read about it here, and listen to the show this weekend (sat/sun) on one of the hundreds of affiliated listed here
Check out the new video from The Evangenitals, brought to you by the fine folks over at Relix. The video from the acclaimed Espina Blanca Productions (Monterey, Mexico) was masterminded by director, by Sofia Garza-Barba, and finds the band, well… being The Evangenitals.
The track wraps up side A on their new record, Moby Dick; or The Album.
From the Relix.com:
The new studio record from The Evangenitals was inspired by Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby Dick; or, The Whale. As the group’s co-founder and vocalist Juli Crockett Feldman explains, “Moby Dick is one of those iconic texts that has a life beyond its pages. People who have never read the book still have an understanding of its themes and its characters. Much like Don Quixote, characters like Captain Ahab and the White Whale transcend literature and enter the realm of the symbolic. Great works of art aren’t satisfied with being passively received; we are meant to engage, challenge, and play with them. The greatness of great literature is in its ability to respond with resiliency to the times, over ages and eons. Without changing a word, they somehow manage to consistently change our lives.”
Today we premiere the new video from the recording. Feldman offers, “I’ve had a geeky obsession with the phenomenon of turbulence for a long time. The original idea for the song floated around in my head for years, but I knew I needed help writing it, as it was a new sound that I wasn’t going to be able to pluck out on an acoustic guitar sitting in my room by myself. We were almost finished with the album (determining song order) when our bassist, Joey Maramba turned to me and said, ‘I wish we had just ONE more song on the record, something a little edgy.’ And this old idea popped into my head. I said, I have a song about turbulence I wanna write, but you and Mike need to help me write it.” What resulted was one of the greatest cowriting and execution experiences in the history of my life.”
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Hillstomp to release Portland, Ore, on April 15 – Preorder now!On April 15, 2014, Hillstomp will release Portland, Ore, their 4th full-length offering and first on Fluff and Gravy Records. The record features 10 new tracks, finding the duo refining their craft and expanding their repertoire on tracks that range from moody folk ballads to the raging stomp they are best known for. Mixed by Chet Lyster of Eels, and produced in conjunction with Kevin Blackwell of Sassparilla, Portland, Ore, represents a sonic high-water mark for the band. The record will be available on CD and LP, and can be pre-ordered here.
The band will premier the tracks over a two-night stand at The Doug Fir in Portland, on 3/14-15 (tickets can be purchased here) before hitting the road for a series of Northwest Shows in March and April. Full tour details to be announced shortly.
Get your copy of the record now!
Morgan Christopher Geer, the braintrust behind Asheville/Portland based Drunken Prayer, has been hard at work. After recording the recently released House of Morgan (Nov, 2013) largely on his own, he has now taken to creating a series of videos to support the record. What began with the unsettling video for “Hunt Me Down“, continues with “KEF-666”. Again using largely stock footage and free laptop editing software, Geer has crafted a perfect companion for a track that he calls “the clarion call of the desperate”.
Check it out here!
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Drunken Prayer to Release House of Morgan, 11/19/13Drunken Prayer’s second full-length release on Portland-based Fluff and Gravy Records finds Geer taking things into his own hands.
While 2012’s critically acclaimed Into The Missionfield was a densely layered studio undertaking, featuring strings, horns, and several marquee players, House of Morgan was self-recorded, largely in his bedroom with nearly all of the instruments being played by Geer. Though the record is, by design, a sharp contrast to previous efforts, this is undoubtedly a Drunken Prayer record. Geer’s trademark vocals, guitar playing and lyrics are the threads that link these divergent records together.
[youtube height=”HEIGHT” width=”WIDTH”]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPhMQ_KRTHQ[/youtube]
“Nick Jaina is probably best known to Portlanders as a prolific singer-songwriter, but he’s taken some interesting creative side roads in the three years since his last record: He’s written three ballets, worked on a film soundtrack and composed music for a play in New Orleans. Primary Perception marks Jaina’s return to pop songwriting, and “Don’t Come to Me” is among its standouts. The track began as an unlikely attempt to write a song from the perspective of Mitt Romney, and later came to life when Jaina took what he had to band members during the sessions that ended up on the record. This isn’t quite the version we play on air — that one includes FCC edits — but it’s an earworm either way, the latest of many from one of Portland’s most consistent musicians”. —Jeremy Petersen
Read the full article and listen to the song here.
“Why Morgan Geer opted to use the moniker Drunken Prayer as his operating MO isn’t exactly clear, although his rambling, off-kilter exposition gives the impression he may be a bit tipsy at times. Into the Missionfield, Geer’s second album using the Drunken Prayer guise, sometimes sounds a bit schizophrenic, suddenly switching as it does from the awkward ramble that opens the album, “Brazil,” to the straight-on rocker that follows it, “Ain’t No Grave.” Regardless, he holds the proceedings together well, maintaining a modest discipline even when he seems at loose ends. Indeed, this is no one man show; Geer employs a formidable back-up crew, with an instrumental arsenal consisting of fiddle, Flugelhorn, sax, melodica and pedal steel, in addition to the standard rock regalia. So even as he proffers his loping, down-home, good-natured homilies — as typified by such songs as “Always Sad,” “Maryjane” and “I Saw It With My Own Two Eyes”– the set-up is always solid and sufficient. Every artist should sound so coherent when in the midst of such intoxicating revelry. (www,drunkenprayer.com)”
Wednesday 3/13/13
Nick Jaina – The Grackle (3:30 & 4:30 shows)
Thursday 3/14/13
Jack Wilson – Rebel’s Honky Tonk (Official SxSW Showcase! 8pm)
Friday 3/15/13
Nick Jaina – 4803 Prock Lane (9:30pm)
Saturday 3/16/13
Jack Wilson – Unofficial SXSW RECHARGE on 307 East 2nd St (7pm)
Fluff and Gravy are returning to the incredible Wildwood Music Fest for it’s second year, this time as official sponsors.
Keep an eye out for our booth, our photography crew, and our Sassparilla.
(here’s a video of last year’s fest which includes an interview with Kevin from Sassparilla)
As most of you already know, Pete Krebs has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Pete is an icon of the Portland music scene and a good friend to Fluff and Gravy’s own Sassparilla.
Sassparilla has just announced that they will be auctioning off to the highest bidder, a house concert, with all proceeds going to Pete Krebs. Fluff and Gravy will also be sweetening the pot by throwing in two, very rare (only 60 were made), red and black vinyl ‘swirl’ LPs of Sassparilla’s Magpie signed by the band!
Things are getting of to a roaring start, so if you would like to put in a bid please contact Sassparilla’s management at alex@inmusicwetrust.com.
If a Sassparilla house concert is not your thing, you can still give to the good cause at http://www.payitsquare.com/collect-page/9996
Thank you all in advance for your help and good thoughts. Please keep Pete in his family in your hearts.
A huge congratulations to Mike for making this ‘best of’ list!
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Jack Wilson’s ‘Cowboy’
