Usually a duo, the Easy Leaves appear as a full band for this concert.
The Easy Leaves’ debut album, American Times, is most definitely country music, but it’s colored and enriched by many thoroughly integrated influences. The Leaves’ harmonies are resplendent with echoes of the great “brother” acts of country music: The Louvins, Everlys, and Glasers. The chugging locomotion of opener “Get Down” could almost be a cousin of Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues,” but the merrily
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Usually a duo, the Easy Leaves appear as a full band for this concert.
The Easy Leaves’ debut album, American Times, is most definitely country music, but it’s colored and enriched by many thoroughly integrated influences. The Leaves’ harmonies are resplendent with echoes of the great “brother” acts of country music: The Louvins, Everlys, and Glasers. The chugging locomotion of opener “Get Down” could almost be a cousin of Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues,” but the merrily debauched lyrics betray the good-time inspiration of the Dead’s and New Riders’ cosmic cowboy ethos of the late Sixties and early Seventies. The mid-tempo sunshine of “Fool on a String” reflects a strong mid-1960s R&B influence, and the loping, amiably ominous “Better Get Off” could have come from Dylan & The Band’s Basement Tapes collection.
The one aspect almost all songs on this collection share is the leanness of that Bakersfield sound, as defined by an engaging, cracking beat; the resolute twang of electric six-strings, the midnight-lonesome whine of a pedal steel guitar, and heartfelt singing with both the singer’s heart and beer stains on his sleeve for the world to see. It’s that relatively unadorned rawness that cuts across generations and genres.
Trevor McSpadden was raised in the Texas Hill Country and seasoned in the clubs of Chicago, and is a genuine honky tonk song and dance man. He spent five years as the lead singer of Chicago’s most beloved country band, The Hoyle Brothers, before taking to the road as a solo act.
The award winning historic Sutter Creek Theatre is an intimate 215 seat former silent film theatre with superb sond. Beer and wine will be available for purchase at the venue.
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