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Listings are
in the opposite order of appearance: headliner is listed at the top,
next is the support band(s),
and the last band listed is the opener.
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Sunday
January 18 2015 8:30PM doors -- music at 9:00PM ••• ALL AGES $10 in advance / $12 at the door Ben Miller Band www.benmillerband.com/ "ozark stomp" = bluegrass, delta blues, appalachian mountain music, rock'n'roll Crow Moses ~formerly Musikanto musikantomusic.com/ hard rocking Americana and lonesome folk tunes We Became Owls www.webecameowls.com/ Americana, alt country, folk Ben Miller Band Ben Miller Doug Dicharry Scott Leeper - The Ben Miller Band formed, roughly, in 2005, as a result of an open-mike night experiment gone right. Ben Miller, who grew up in rural Washington state before attending art school in Philadelphia, had been working as an open-mike night host in his adopted home of Joplin, Missouri when he met and began playing music with Doug Dicharry and Scott Leeper. Miller fronts the band on guitar (styles include both slide and fingerpicking), banjo, harmonica, and lead vocals. He's also proven to be an accomplished songwriter. Dicharry is primarily a percussionist, though he also plays trombone and mandolin. Percussion-wise he handles drums, washboard, and electric spoons. Leeper gives the band its backbone, keeping rhythm on his homemade one-string washtub bass. The bass is constructed from a weed-eater string that runs from the end of a stick that sits upon an inverted washtub, to the washtub itself, which presumably houses an elaborate pickup system that gives the instrument's deep resonant sound a lot more volume than you'd expect. Occasionally, Leeper also keeps rhythm on the side of an old-school fire bell that he's transformed into an interesting-sounding drum. Dicharry and Leeper both add backing vocals as well. The band plays a gritty, modern mixture of various types of old American heritage music, including blues, bluegrass, folk, and country. Originally, the bandmembers called their sound "Ozark Stomp" as a tribute to the influences from their geographical region, but now refer to it as "Mudstomp" in reference to their label, which focuses on similar music, but in a wider regional area. The Ben Miller Band is not only curious and inventive musically, but also instrument and equipment-wise. Leeper's homemade one-string bass has been mentioned, but Miller and Dicharry have some interesting gadgets of their own. Miller sings into two microphones; one is your typical mike, while the other is the receiver from an old land-to-land telephone. The telephone mike offers a distorted sound and is run through a trunk, which Miller keeps beat on with his right foot using a drum pedal. Attached to Miller's left foot is a tambourine and he alternates between the pedal and the tambourine. Dicharry, meanwhile, has a suitcase full of distortion pedals, which he uses to great effect when playing washboard and electric spoons. - Crow Moses ~formerly Musikanto -Chicago songwriter walks the line between Indie-Blues & Urban Americana. Borrowing elements of Experimental Folk and broken-down Orchestral music, Crow Moses —formerly Musikanto— grew up listening to his father's obscure folk and roots rock records. With a propensity toward heartbreaking ballads and melodic melodrama, his songs survive the bite of a Chicago Winter and the soul of a Midwestern bon-fire. We Became Owls - Andrew Blair (Vocals, guitar) and Ross Warner (mandolin, accordion, harmonica, lap steel guitar, electric guitar, etc) - from Oakland, CA - "With a ghost town country-western vibe, we became owls invites you to remember the deafeningly quiet moments. presented with notes that resemble lonely, late-night revelations & peaks of starry-eyed hopefully climbing, this is a band that can & will make all of time stand still.” - Oaktown Indie Mayhem |
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