Dragondeer

DRAGONDEER SET AND INTERVIEW  

I'd seen clips of Dragondeer performances and knew what I was getting into on this week's Local Shakedown. 

A super trio of Eric Halborg of The Swayback on vocals, harmonica, & guitar, Cole Rudy of Varlet on Lap Steel & Mandolin, and Chimney Choir's Carl Sorensen on drums & percussion is nothing less than exactly what you want to hear. I didn't realize blues and psych could do this. and my god Sorensen's performance on the second song kills me. 

Listen to their set and to the interview - it is a good one. 

Varlet

Other than being one of the nicest groups of people I have encountered on the Shakedown, Denver's Varlet has more than a few things going for them.

First, Lilly Scott is one commanding songwriter and vocalist. With a set of distinguishable and powerful pipes she stomps on a wooden platform while performing and it is hard to look/listen away.

Second, her band mates play on a shit ton of gear that make up a sound that, when I first heard them live, thought it was prerecorded.

Third, there is really no point attaching genres to this group. They manage to blend it all into this:

 VARLET IS HOT, LISTEN TO THEM

 

Set List:

War Over Water - Lubbock

Monroe Monroe- The Salesman

The Emirs – The Shining Motor City (on the hill)

The Minders – Chatty Patty

Everything Absent or distorted – The Exit Parade

Black Black Ocean – Sigmund City

The Yawpers -  Rock Bottom 

200 Million Years - No Good News

The Maykit - East and West

Grant Sabin - Dreaming

The Gromet - Skip Your Stone

Goodbye Timebomb - What I Like Doing With My Time

Broken Tongues - Does Hip Hop Remember the Jazz