Friday, Aug 23, 2019, 9:00 PM – 12:00 AM PDT
The Hotel Utah Saloon
500 4th Street
San Francisco, CA
The Blackfoot Gypsies have unleashed a set of original
roadhouse rockin' tunes with To the Top, on Plowboy Records. The Nashville,
Tennessee based powerhouse quartet demonstrate raucous energy and soul on this
collection delivering their take on white-knuckled rock'n'roll.
Across the 15 tracks of To the Top, the Blackfoot Gypsies
fuse their influences -- swamp blues cool, downhome hillbilly funk and
homegrown punk panache -- into a lean, mean machine invoking such classic
musical malcontents as the Rolling Stones, the Faces and Mott the Hoople, while
sparking and spitting 21st-century fire. It's the type of record that could
only come from a band that learned to rock the old-fashioned way -- one sweaty,
full-throttle live performance at a time.
The band's brew of rock, hillbilly and blues began in
2010 when Oregon native, guitarist and singer Matthew Paige moved to Nashville
and hooked up with drummer and Music City native Zach Murphy. The pair wanted
to form a full band, but the urge to rock could not wait.
"We were doing just what we wanted to do,"
Paige says, "but making enough noise to fill out the sound was a
challenge. I started playing through two amps to make the most sound."
The pair spent the next two years building a reputation
through raucous live performances and two self-released EPs, Blackfoot Gypsies
(2010) and Dandee Cheeseball (2011), and their first LP, On the Loose (2012).
Hard touring followed the album's release as the duo bashed across the US
through hard-won club dates. After three years, they were ready to expand their
sound.
Cost: $10 - $12
