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SUMMARY:Bigfork Monday Market at Lake Baked / River View Bar
DESCRIPTION:The weekly Bigfork Monday Market happens from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm each summer Monday (May 26 thru September 1) in Downtown Bigfork at Lake Baked / River View Bar\n\n\n\n\n\nSummer is coming – get excited about the 2025 Bigfork Monday Market! \n\n\n\nWe are gearing up for the 2025 Season of the Bigfork Monday Market! This is our 8th year of making Mondays in Bigfork just a little more fun. This season we are going to continue implementing updates and exciting new things to our market. Enjoy the new dance floor at the River View Bar and an extension to the length of time that our musicians keep us tapping our toes! That’s right – music now runs a little longer each market from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Our vendor times will be from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm. \n\n\n\nThe BMM is a weekly summer market that includes Fresh Goods\, Bakers\, Artists\, Food Trucks\, Cocktails\, Live Music and a chance to dance with your neighbors & friends – GOOD TIMES for all! We are a family-friendly event and assure you that there is something at our market for all ages. \n\n\n\n\n\nFACEBOOK PAGE
URL:https://missoulaunderground.com/mugevent/bigfork-monday-market-at-lake-baked-river-view-bar/2025-06-23/
LOCATION:River View Bar\, 191 Mill Street\, Bigfork\, Montana\, 59911\, United States
CATEGORIES:Farmers Markets,Farmers Markets,Markets,Shopping
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SUMMARY:Social Distortion with Plague Vendor at The Wilma
DESCRIPTION:Logjam Presents welcomes Social Distortion for a live concert with special guest Plague Vendor at The Wilma in Downtown Missoula at 8:00 pm Monday\, June 23\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors @ 7:00 pm \n\n\n\nLogjam Presents welcomes Social Distortion for a live concert with special guest Plague Vendor at The Wilma in Downtown Missoula at 8:00 pm Monday\, June 23. \n\n\n\nTickets on sale at Logjam Presents Box Offices and online while supplies last. General admission standing room only floor and reserved premium balcony seating tickets are available. All ages are welcome. \n\n\n\nTake a look at these tips to best prepare yourself for a smooth ticket buying experience. \n\n\n\nAdditional ticketing and venue information can be found here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Social DistortionHere’s how you know you’ve made it in the music business: You’ve stayed strong for three decades on your own terms\, on your own time\, by your own rules\, and over that time your influence has only grown. Each of your albums has been stronger than your last. You’ve seen high times and low ones\, good days and tragic days\, but every night you give 100%\, and every morning you wake up still swinging. \n\n\n\nThis is the short version of the Social Distortion bio — the long version could be a 10-part mini- series. But over the past 30 years\, the punk godfathers in the band have all but trademarked their sound\, a brand of hard rockabilly/punk that’s cut with the melodic\, road-tested lyrics of frontman Mike Ness. Their searing guitars and a locomotive rhythm section sound as alive today as they did in ’82\, as do Ness’ hard-luck tales of love\, loss and lessons learned. “The most common thing I hear is\, ‘Man\, your music got me through some hard times\,’” Ness says. “And I just say\, ‘Me too.’” \n\n\n\nHard Times And Nursery Rhymes (produced\, for the first time\, by Ness himself) is the band’s most recent release. For a band with a career spanning over 40 years\, Social Distortion experienced a significant amount of firsts in 2011. For starters\, Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes debuted at #4 on the Billboard Top 200 and was the highest debut that the band has yet seen. Hard Times was also the #1 Independent Album and the #2 Modern Rock/Alternative Album week of release. The band also made their late night television debut when they performed “Machine Gun Blues” on Jimmy Kimmel Live\, and later played for Conan on Hard Times’ release date. Taking their successes to the road\, Social Distortion played European festivals including Reading and Leeds for the first time. They also booked their first tours of Australia and South America. And finally\, Social Distortion played Lollapalooza\, Austin City Limits Festival\, and Coachella – all of these for the first time. \n\n\n\nA release of new music is forthcoming in 2025. \n\n\n\nSocial Distortion’s patented mix of punk\, bluesy rock n’ roll and outlaw country — while also stretching the boundaries of their signature sound is a blend of potent power that appeals to all ages. They are honored to have been able to reach as many people as they have so far. “I write songs for myself\, and I hope that other people will like them too\,” Ness says. “I think every record you make is showing people what you’ve learned over the past few years. It’s showing people\, ‘This is what I know.’ ” \n\n\n\nNow in their fifth decade\, Ness and Social Distortion have officially achieved one of the most non- punk things possible: They’ve failed to burn out. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Plague Vendor“Plague Vendor is a graveyard groove. It’s something you can shake it to. It’s a sound and a spirit\, and it’s guided by love. Anything can happen if you just keep going.” \n\n\n\nFormed in 2008\, the band carved a name for themselves in the Los Angeles club scene with their unhinged physical live shows and turbulent flavor of post-punk. Word was out that frontman Brandon Blaine’s enigmatic presence drew parallels with young Iggy Pop and Nick Cave. Their performances caught the attention of Epitaph Records owner Brett Gurewitz. He signed them to the label in 2013. \n\n\n\nTheir debut album Free To Eat clocked a combustible ten songs at seventeen minutes. It received critical acclaim drawing comparisons to Gun Club\, Iggy & The Stooges\, The Cramps\, and Jesus Lizard. \n\n\n\nThe two follow up albums BLOODSWEAT and By Night bolstered up their reputation as a heavy hitting rock band who knew their way around a studio. These two albums showed Plague Vendor expanding on their sound by working with producers Stuart Sikes (White Stripes\, The Walkmen) and John Congleton (St. Vincent et al.)\, respectively. \n\n\n\nThe band’s top-of-the-class live show has secured them spots opening for the likes of Muse\, Deftones\, The Offspring\, Social Distortion\, Refused and many others. They have received generous write-ups for their appearances in the US/UK festival and club circuits. \n\n\n\nPlague Vendor is continuing to hold up their reputation as one of the hardest working bands on the stage with newly recruited Henri Cash (Starcrawler) on guitar duties. The band has been testing new material on the road.
URL:https://missoulaunderground.com/mugevent/social-distortion-with-plague-vendor-at-the-wilma/
LOCATION:The Wilma Theater\, 131 Higgins Avenue\, Missoula\, Montana\, 59802\, United States
CATEGORIES:90s,Alt Rock,Music,Rock
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SUMMARY:Little Feat & Nitty Gritty Dirt Band at KettleHouse Amphitheater
DESCRIPTION:Logjam Presents welcomes Little Feat & Nitty Gritty Dirt Band for a live concert performance at the KettleHouse Amphitheater in Bonner at 8:00 pm on Tuesday\, June 24\n\n\n\n\n\nLogjam Presents welcomes Little Feat & Nitty Gritty Dirt Band for a live concert performance at the KettleHouse Amphitheater in Bonner at 8:00 pm on Tuesday\, June 24. \n\n\n\nTickets on sale at Logjam Presents Box Offices and online while supplies last. General admission seated pit\, reserved premium stadium seating\, reserved stadium seating\, general admission lawn and premium box seating tickets are available. Shuttle Tickets and Parking Passes can be purchased here. Crazy Creek Chair Rentals for this event are available for advance purchase here. All ages are welcome. \n\n\n\nAvailable Ticket Types: \n\n\n\nGeneral Admission Seated Pit: General Admission Seated Pit tickets allow access to the pit area\, located closest to the stage. This section is fully seated and available on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\n\n\nReserved Premium Stadium Seating: Reserved Premium Stadium Seating tickets allow access to the rows closest to the stage of the seated section located just behind the main pit of the amphitheater. \n\n\n\nReserved Stadium Seating: Reserved Stadium Seating tickets allow access to the seating section located behind the main pit of the amphitheater. \n\n\n\nGeneral Admission Lawn: General Admission Lawn tickets allow access to the upper lawn section of the amphitheater located above the reserved stadium seating section. \n\n\n\nPremium Box Seating: Premium Boxes are sold in bundles of two tickets and located in the private box area between the Reserved Stadium Seating the General Admission Lawn. These tickets include one parking pass or two shuttle passes\, a separate entrance for expedited venue entry\, and a dedicated cocktail server offering an expanded menu in addition to concessions. \n\n\n\nTake a look at these tips to best prepare yourself for a smooth ticket buying experience. \n\n\n\nAdditional ticketing and venue information can be found here. \n\n\n\nAll concerts are held rain or shine. Be prepared for extremes such as sunshine\, heat\, wind or rain. All tickets are non-refundable. In the event of cancellation due to extreme weather\, tickets will not be refunded. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Little FeatFifty-two years of great music doesn’t squeeze down to one page very easily. \n\n\n\n“Dixie Chicken\,” “Oh Atlanta\,” “Willin’\,” “Let it Roll\,” “Spanish Moon\,” and “Fat Man in the Bathtub” are just the merest hint of a repertoire that has inspired more joy and more dancing than you can imagine. Little Feat fused a broad span of styles and genres into something utterly distinctive\, a mix of California rock\, funk\, folk\, jazz\, country\, rockabilly\, and New Orleans swamp boogie and more\, all stirred into a rich gumbo that can only be Little Feat. \n\n\n\nTheir album Waiting for Columbus is a consensus contender for the finest live rock and roll album ever recorded. \n\n\n\nBill Payne (keyboards\, vocals)\, Kenny Gradney (bass)\, Sam Clayton (percussion and vocals)\, Fred Tackett (guitars and vocals)\, Scott Sharrard (guitars and vocals)\, and Tony Leone (drums) are Little Feat in 2021. \n\n\n\nScott (Gregg Allman Band) and Tony (Olabelle\, Chris Robinson Brotherhood\, Midnight Ramble Band) will be new to most Feat fans. Fortunately\, they’ve both crossed paths with the band many times over the past decade\, and they fit as elegantly and comfortably as a perfectly broken-in pair of jeans. They were born for this. \n\n\n\nSo is the audience\, which is why they’re going to join the band and choose the setlist for every show on this first post-pandemic tour. For more info on that\, go to www.littlefeat.net. \n\n\n\nMore than fifty years in\, they’ve been up and they’ve been down and they know where they belong—standing or sitting behind their instruments\, playing for you. \n\n\n\nAnd anything’s possible\, because the end is not in sight. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Nitty Gritty Dirt BandLord\, it was nearly sixty years ago. \n\n\n\nLong Beach\, California. Jeff Hanna was in high school\, a holding zone where hormones and anxiety are left to fester until they explode like Langston Hughes’s dream deferred. \n\n\n\nSuddenly\, a sound burst through the middling morass at laser speed\, deflating the balls of confusion that teenaged Jeff was holding. That sound came from the iron ore town of Hibbing\, Minnesota\, by way of Greenwich Village. It was Bob Dylan\, a young man who at first recharged old folk and blues songs\, but who became known for his own wild-eyed compositions. \n\n\n\nHanna didn’t know what was going on. But\, at the same time\, he knew Dylan was the man who would lead him to know most everything that was going on. \n\n\n\nAfter school\, he’d go home\, lock himself in his bedroom\, and haltingly play the picking pattern to Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice\, It’s All Right” until the halting gave way to the feeling that he’d mastered a magic trick. \n\n\n\nAnd when Dylan came to play at the Wilson High School auditorium\, Hanna paid $4 to sit in the balcony with his girlfriend and a group of pals that included Bruce Kunkel\, with whom he would soon start the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band\, a fluid combo that would make a beautiful and necessary mark on American music. Another key member of that band was a boy named Jimmie Fadden\, who would sit and play Dylan songs with Hanna\, transfixed by the way Dylan’s music blended seemingly every roots music strain. \n\n\n\nFadden would become Hanna’s lifelong partner in the groundbreaking\, hit-making\, Grammy winning\, long-lived (since 1966)\, Dirt Band. Hanna considers Jimmie’s harp to be another lead vocal\, and\, indeed\, Fadden’s harmonica is to the Dirt Band what Mickey Raphael’s is to Willie Nelson: It is instantly recognizable\, and instantly satisfying. \n\n\n\nWhat’s all this about Dylan\, then? Well\, the Dirt Band’s new album\, Dirt Does Dylan\, is a romp through some of the gems in Dylan’s catalog\, as played by Hanna\, Fadden\, keyboardist/songwriter/vocalist Bob Carpenter (who joined in 1980)\, and three new members: fiddle specialist Ross Holmes; singer-songwriter and bass player Jim Photoglo (who wrote one of the Dirt Band’s biggest hits\, “Fishin’ in the Dark”); and Hanna’s son\, the absurdly talented singer and guitarist Jaime Hanna. \n\n\n\nBetween Long Beach high school days and the release of Dirt Does Dylan\, the Dirt Band brought folk music to the national forefront with “Mr. Bojangles\,” recorded the volumes of the multi-artist Will the Circle Be Unbroken series of albums\, featuring Mother Maybelle Carter\, Doc Watson\, Earl Scruggs\, Emmylou Harris\, Taj Mahal\, John Prine\, Dwight Yoakam\, and dozens more. \n\n\n\nThey’ve won three Grammys and placed an album and a single in the Grammy Hall of Fame\, and scored country hits including “Voila (An American Dream)\,” “Modern Day Romance\,” “Stand a Little Rain” and many more. They’ve undergone numerous lineup changes\, the latest of which has just recorded its first studio album together. The album was produced by Ray Kennedy (Steve Earle\, Lucinda Williams) and Hanna in a nondescript building located behind an auto parts store in Nashville’s Berry Hills neighborhood. In that studio\, with vintage microphones and instruments and this newly reconstructed Nitty Gritty Dirt Band\, the group added a definitive album to an unprecedented catalog. \n\n\n\nDirt Does Dylan opens with a rousing take on “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You\,” one that finds the joyful middle ground between Dylan’s Nashville Skyline version and the electrifying performances of the song on the mid-70s Rolling Thunder tour. Then it’s on to a gorgeous “Girl from the North Country\,” with father and son sharing vocals and a wistful\, autumnal electric guitar outro. \n\n\n\n“It Takes a Lot to Laugh\, It Takes a Train to Cry” finds Fadden sharing vocals with Jeff Hanna and playing a signature harp solo. “Country Pie” is a string-band session\, recorded around one microphone with Carpenter\, Jaime Hanna and Holmes whistling for their just desserts. And Carpenter is joined by Rebecca and Megan Lovell of Larkin Poe on “I Shall Be Released\,” which promises imminent emancipation from a prison of iron bars or worried mind. \n\n\n\nThe Hanna men sing “She Belongs to Me\,” from Bringing It All Back Home\, Dylan’s surrealist step forward from 1965. And the Dirt Band follows that with “Forever Young\,” an unattainable prayer set to one of Dylan’s rare soaring choruses. Jeff\, Jaime\, and Carpenter each sing lead on different verses of this classic. \n\n\n\n“The Times They Are A-Changin’” further expands the circle the Dirt Band created on past albums when they joined contemporary talents with long-held heroes of music. In this case\, though they’d never admit it\, the Dirt Band itself is the long-held hero\, and their acolytes are Rosanne Cash\, Michael and Tanya Trotter of the astonishing duo The War and Treaty\, Steve Earle\, and a man many consider to be a new generation’s Dylan or Prine\, Jason Isbell on vocals and slide guitar. \n\n\n\nAsked at the session whether he was comfortable singing the song’s second verse\, Isbell said\, “I’m cool with singing any verse\, because they’re all amazing.” “Times” was written in 1964\, and it promises a rapidity of reform that has yet to be achieved. But there’s an insistent hope that we carry to the present-day\, and if the times haven’t changed\, they’ve at the very least evolved. \n\n\n\n“Don’t Think Twice\, It’s All Right” is a song that has mesmerized Jeff and Jimmie since adolescence. Most songs lose some significance as the years roll by and experiences pile up\, but after all these years it still explicates a poignant blend of grace and blame\, hurt and pining admiration\, with which most of us grow well-familiar. \n\n\n\nDirt Does Dylan closes with the jovially inscrutable “Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)\,” with this new Dirt Band lineup driving things home with genre-bending musicality that could not have been mustered by the boys who gathered to form the Dirt Band back in the mid ‘60s. The joy of discovery led to the smiling certainty of the ages. \n\n\n\nThere have been dozens\, and maybe hundreds of albums devoted to the songs of Bob Dylan. If adding another to the stack seems superfluous\, it’s not. (Is it a stack if we’re streaming? That’s a question for another day.) Dirt Does Dylan provides a damn good listening experience and a new perspective on the greatest songwriter of the 20th century (and his 21st century works are as mighty fine as The Mighty Quinn). \n\n\n\nDon’t think twice\, it’s more than alright. It is\, as Dirt Band collaborator Kris Kristofferson would (and did) say\, “A table-thumpin’ smash.” \n\n\n\n-Peter Cooper
URL:https://missoulaunderground.com/mugevent/little-feat-nitty-gritty-dirt-band-at-kettlehouse-amphitheater/
LOCATION:KettleHouse Amphitheater\, 605 Cold Smoke Lane\, Bonner\, MT\, 59823\, United States
CATEGORIES:Americana,Country,Covers,Folk,Folk Rock,Jazz,Music
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading with Noah Davis and Corrie Williamson at Fact & Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Reading & Signing with author Noah Davis in conversation with Corrie Williamson at Fact & Fiction in Downtown Missoula at 7:00 pm Thursday\, June 26\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Book: The Last Beast We Revel In coalesces around love for one’s romantic partner\, family\, community\, and the natural world. As the Appalachian Mountains enter their most recent chapter of environmental catastrophes and abuses\, the need to discover joy within the human and greater-than-human community is essential. Through these poems we travel with black bear\, brook trout\, the old tunnel mines\, the carcasses of meth houses\, and the sweetness of August tomatoes. These poems balance reverie\, mourning\, lust\, and love while wading the rivers and meandering the deep hollows of Appalachia’s enduring landscape. \n\n\n\nAbout the Author: Noah Davis‘s first collection\, Of This River\, won the Wheelbarrow Emerging Poet Book Prize from Michigan State University’s Center for Poetry\, and his poems and prose have appeared in Southern Humanities Review\, Best New Poets\, The Christian Science Monitor\, The Year’s Best Sports Writing\, North American Review\, and others. His work has been awarded a Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellowship at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the 2018 Jean Ritchie Appalachian Literature Fellowship from Lincoln Memorial University. Davis earned an MFA from Indiana University and now lives with his wife\, Nikea\, in New England. \n\n\n\nAbout the Author in Conversation: Corrie Williamson was born on a small farm in southwestern Virginia. She is the author of two previous books of poetry: The River Where You Forgot My Name\, which was a 2019 Montana Book Award Honor Book\, and Sweet Husk\, which won the 2014 Perugia Press Prize and was a finalist for the 2015 Library of Virginia Poetry Award.She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia\, with a BA in Poetry and Anthropology\, and her MFA in Poetry from the University of Arkansas. She has taught writing at the University of Arkansas\, Helena College\, and Carroll College\, and worked as an educator in Yellowstone National Park. She was the recipient of the 2020 PEN Northwest/Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency\, spending seven and a half months writing and living off-grid in a remote section of the Rogue River in southwest Oregon. Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Southern Review\, Ecotone\, The Kenyon Review\, The Missouri Review\, AGNI\, Poetry Daily\, Verse Daily\, and many others\, as well as numerous anthologies. She lives in Montana.
URL:https://missoulaunderground.com/mugevent/poetry-reading-with-noah-davis-and-corrie-williamson-at-fact-fiction/
LOCATION:Fact & Fiction\, 220 N. Higgins Avenue\, Missoula\, Montana\, 59802\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literature,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Andy Frasco & The U.N. with Cordovas at The Wilma
DESCRIPTION:Logjam Presents welcomes Andy Frasco & The U.N. for a live concert on the Growing Pains Tour with Cordovas at The Wilma in Downtown Missoula at 8:00 pm Friday\, June 27\n\n\n\n\n\nLogjam Presents welcomes Andy Frasco & The U.N. for a live concert on the Growing Pains Tour with Cordovas at The Wilma in Downtown Missoula at 8:00 pm Friday\, June 27. \n\n\n\nTickets on sale at Logjam Presents Box Offices and online while supplies last. All tickets are general admission standing room only. All ages are welcome. \n\n\n\nTake a look at these tips to best prepare yourself for a smooth ticket buying experience. \n\n\n\nAdditional ticketing and venue information can be found here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Andy Frasco & The U.N.With curly tufts of a recognizable Jewfro peeking out from his omnipresent knit cap\, Andy Frasco is a cross between John Belushi’s “Joliet” Jake Blues and Jimmy Buffett. He’s a band-fronting\, songwriting party animal who turns into a swirling rock ‘n’ roll Tasmanian Devil onstage leading his U.N.\, not unlike Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band. From switching instruments mid-song to Frasco stagediving into the crowd or kibitzing with them\, an Andy Frasco & The U.N. show is a celebration of inclusivity and tolerance where “You do You” and “let us do us.” \n\n\n\nThe band has grown from playing bars to touring more than 250 days a year all over the country\, with Frasco describing that 15-year journey on Growing Pains\, the group’s landmark 10th studio album and first full-length effort since 2023’s L’Optimist\, showcasing Andy’s growth as a tunesmith in his own right. \n\n\n\nProduced by Frasco himself for the first time\, the collection’s centerpiece is the anthemic “Try Not to Die\,” a glass half-full anthem to seizing the day that combines country twang with an easy island breeze in its affirmative message. \n\n\n\n“Life is Easy\,” featuring bluegrass superstar Billy Strings\, Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country and co-writer/frequent collaborators Steve Poltz (Rugburns\, Jewel) and Chris Gelbuda (Meghan Trainor)\, is a folk protest anthem. “Swinging for the Fences\,” featuring cameos by G. Love and Eric Krasno (Lettuce\, Tedeschi Trucks Band Soulive)\, is a Motown-flavored paean to dating someone out of your league. The playful “They Call Me Hollywood (But I’m from LA)\,” co-written with frequent partner Kenny Carkeet\, features rapper ProbCause\, while the title track is a sing-song\, hip-hop-influenced rhyme about embracing change and taking it day-to-day. \n\n\n\nFrasco wrote most of Growing Pains in Nashville with his longtime guitarist Shawn Eckels and frequent songwriting partners Chris Gelbuda\, Steve Poltz\, and Andrew Cooney. \n\n\n\n“I came into this life wanting to write songs\,” said Frasco. “It took 15 years\, but I feel I’m starting to get credit for it. My cup is full. I’m really starting to see my dreams come true.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout CordovasThe story of Cordovas is one of rock ’n’ roll seekers\, hammering away in search not just for a platonic ideal of their freewheeling sound\, but also for some greater truth about our experience as humans. The band is fueled by the long strange trip of frontman Joe Firstman\, who had a circuitous path through his young adulthood — spat out from the major label system\, a stint as a bandleader on Last Call With Carson Daly\, and finally finding his way back to himself\, a mystic classicist who has guided Cordovas through their own series of twists and turns. That includes their new record The Rose of Aces\, which finds them returning with their finest collection of music yet. \n\n\n\nCordovas’ origins go all the way back the early ‘10s\, when Firstman decided he was best with a band around him. After releasing a self-titled debut and undergoing various iterations\, things really started cooking when guitarist Lucca Soria joined the fold. Firstman describes him as “the one soldier that understands what I’m doing best.” Soon the band’s vision cohered further\, and they signed to ATO\, releasing the quick one-two of That Santa Fe Channel in 2018 and Destiny Hotel in 2020. \n\n\n\nWhile it might seem like Cordovas were away a bit longer this time\, the music never stopped. The group\, in whatever form it currently exists\, is always active. “When you finish your record\, you’re starting the next one\,” Firstman explains. Cordovas is a state of constant flow: Firstman\, Soria\, and their various co-conspirators gathering in their twin outposts — a farm in Nashville\, and a hideout in the artist community of the Baja California town Todos Santos — to jam out ideas. Before the dust remotely began to settle on Destiny Hotel\, Cordovas were already back in the shop\, working up a trove of songs from which The Rose of Aces would emerge. \n\n\n\nOnce Cordovas had about 20 songs they were happy with\, they linked up with producer Cory Hanson. Firstman bemusedly describes the theoretical mismatch of the pairing — Hanson the Southern California kid coming out to Nashville to work with “a whole bunch of\, you know\, Americans.” Whatever culture clash might’ve been there was just extra gasoline. “He brought a super-charged way of thinking because he’s a genius\,” Firstman says. “He’s built his life wanting to sound like himself.” Hanson ended up contributing vocals and guitar to the album as well. \n\n\n\nThe Rose of Aces begins with a conjuring. “Your song comes on like a cure/ And you remember who you were before/ How many times did music save your soul?” Firstman asks on opener “Fallen Angels of Rock ’n’ Roll.” He goes on to trace rock history from Memphis to Muscle Shoals — though he’ll also quip he’s never actually been to Muscle Shoals. “I’m also aware of all the stuff that came through those places\,” he says. “The criss-cross of American highways\, you can’t take that away from me\, man. I’ve ridden those dirty roads a lot.” \n\n\n\nAs is their custom\, Cordovas held on to “Fallen Angels of Rock ’n’ Roll” for years\, road-testing it and letting it come into its own before it was time to really get it into shape for recording. Firstman reflects on how Cordovas’ always sharpening chops — the band’s playing\, but also his ability to push his voice further — let the song be what it always wanted to be over the years. While the song gives the album a rallying cry\, it’s not without its wistfulness — its title reflecting on friends back in the day who didn’t make it. “The important part is don’t forget what music does for you\,” Firstman says. “It can make you sad\, it can make you happy\, it can remind you of a better time.” \n\n\n\nThere’s no better way to kick off The Rose of Aces and Cordovas’ new chapter. The band has long cited influences like the Allman Brothers Band\, Grateful Dead\, and The Band. And while Cordovas can certainly jam\, they’ve also long been acclaimed as tapping into the more songwriting-oriented side of those forebears. From “Fallen Angels of Rock ’n’ Roll” onward\, you can hear the band honing their craft across The Rose of Aces. “What Is Wrong?” is a sunburnt twilight sigh of a song — originating with some ideas of Soria’s that the band then toyed with\, adding some lyrics (“Are you ready?/ If you’re free enough to do it on your own”) that Firstman worked on with his girlfriend. Throughout his career\, Firstman has taken fragments of various American traditions and turned them over into new lights\, and you can almost hear Cordovas’ music as a travelogue — easy-going yet careening forward\, from the laidback rollick of “Sunshine” to the swamp grooves of “Deep River” to\, eventually\, nodding to their home south of the border with closer “Somos Iguales.” \n\n\n\nIn true rock spirit\, joints are lit and roads are rambled down. Salvation is sought\, but characters stumble into sordid corners\, too. “High Roller\,” another highlight of the album\, tells the story of the narrator and his compatriot Stanley having a chaotic bender at a casino. \n\n\n\nWhen they’re camped out\, friends and artists come and go. The band jams\, and writer pals gather to dissect Marcel Proust or Marcus Aurelius. There’s an almost old-school\, utopian scene at play — like-minded individuals not just improvising and seeing where it goes\, but seeking a purpose through that discourse. There are all kinds of characters in Cordovas’ orbit\, including the namesakes of the album — hotel owners Ace and Rose down in Mexico\, who Firstman paid tribute to via an imagined Tarot card of an album name. \n\n\n\nIf the whole thing sounds like some kind of fantasy\, it didn’t come without a lot of missteps and rebirths\, sweat and hard work. Now 43\, Firstman has already lived more than a few lives. Raised by a weed dealing vet father and an opera singer mother in Charlotte\, the young Firstman took a Greyhound to Los Angeles in the early ‘00s and quickly became a buzzy young songwriter. He was signed to Atlantic\, and released a solo debut called The War of Women in 2003. While the album led to some burgeoning success — including opening slots for Sheryl Crow and Willie Nelson — Firstman embarked on era of self-sabotage. “I was a fucking drunken nightmare\, and the songs weren’t as good the second time around\,” he admits. Soon\, he was dropped from Atlantic\, but landed on his feet with the bandleader gig on Carson Daly’s show\, where his band included Kamasi Washington and Thundercat. \n\n\n\n“I wanted to sing songs I wasn’t embarrassed of\,” Firstman says of the transition from those years to Cordovas. As matter-of-fact and self-deprecating as he can be about his early LA days\, Firstman also holds that time dear as a crucible\, all the hard lessons he had to learn to become who he is now. “Everything is victory as long as you can pull it out of the trash and polish it off and identify it as such\,” Firstman reflects. “That’s a big part of Cordovas. We wanna be better people — but not just for nothing.” \n\n\n\nThat brings us to the parables of Cordovas\, the stories on The Rose of Aces arriving 20 years on from Firstman’s initial stint in the music industry. “With the philosophy\, I’m trying to get you to change your brain and work in a useful way for society\,” Firstman says. “What happens when you let that stuff in and you become it? What does your brain tell you then? Go feel that\, and the standard you set and the call you make to your friends and the thing you said you were gonna do that mattered. How did you feel the next morning? What song did you write?”
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LOCATION:The Wilma Theater\, 131 Higgins Avenue\, Missoula\, Montana\, 59802\, United States
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SUMMARY:Big Sky Mudflaps 50-Year Anniversary at Bitter Root Brewing
DESCRIPTION:The Big Sky Mudflaps celebrate 50 years of performing together 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Saturday\, June 28 at Bitter Root Brewing in Hamilton\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Big Sky Mudflaps are celebrating 50 years of performing together! Their unique sound– a blend of jazz\, swing and rhythm & blues with a healthy dose of Latin percussion — has won them national acclaim. The Mudflaps have earned praise from the New York Times\, the Village Voice\, Billboard\, Esquire Magazine\, and many other publications. The Big Sky Mudflaps have shared concert billing with such internationally known artists as Ray Charles\, Muddy Waters\, Dizzy Gillespie\, Dave Brubeck and Riders in the Sky. They have made featured appearances on the NBC Today Show\, as well as on National Public Radio’s “Prairie Home Companion.” Their festival appearances include the KOOL (Newport/New York) Jazz Festival\, the Telluride (Colorado) Jazz Festival\, the Port Townsend (Washington) Jazz Festival\, the Northern Rockies Folk Festival (Sun Valley\, Idaho)\, and the Flathead Festival (Montana)\, among others.
URL:https://missoulaunderground.com/mugevent/big-sky-mudflaps-50-year-anniversary-at-bitter-root-brewing/
LOCATION:Bitter Root Brewing\, 101 Marcus Street\, Hamilton\, Montana\, 59840\, United States
CATEGORIES:Beer,Jazz,Latin,Music,Swing
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