Time: 8:30 p.m.
Cover: Suggested donation of $20
HOMETOWN SHOW COMING UP
and new songs to be represented. feature cocktail TBD.
June 16 Owl Acoustic Lounge Skinny Dyck // Ryan Bourne & the Plant City Band
HOMETOWN SHOW WITH SPECIAL GUEST RYAN BOURNE (album release party for Plant City!).
Suggested donation: $20.
SKINNY DYCK
Twang savant Skinny Dyck has put on weight since his debut LP Get to Know Lonesome (2020) – a delight to fans of traditional country music but in equal measure with an alternative leaning audience. On first listen, the Lethbridge, Alberta-based singer/songwriter Skinny may sound like a throwback to classic country artists of the 1960s, but get to know him a little better and it’s clear that he’s firmly part of the new generation of artists pushing country forward into the 21st Century. “I think that’s a result of the aesthetic and the sandwiches” relays Dyck in reference to his penchant toward a tape-saturated, mid-fi sonicscape, coupled with sparse arrangements. Led by the success of the twangy indie-rocker Dreamin’, Get to Know Lonesome found an audience for capturing the “distilled spirit of wide-cut country” (Exclaim!) out of a few days with an 8-track machine in his living room.
Skinny makes strides on his latest EP, Palace Waiting (out September 2022), which includes “In On The Upswing” and “TV Blue,” set to be released as a 7-inch single through Swedish label Sound Asleep Records. Produced with Billy Horton (Charley Crockett, Theo Lawrence) in Texas, Skinny capitalizes with brevity on Palace Waiting, pouring an equal measure of traditional country and austere country-folk. "The proverbial Palace exists for everyone" says Skinny. "Maybe a swing set with a view of the river, or perhaps a little dram of forgiveness you find for yourself after another year of wandering with the lights on long after the party's over."
RYAN BOUNE & the PLANT CITY BAND
For the better part of the last decade, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Bourne has been one of western Canada’s most in-demand players and collaborators, logging major hours onstage and in the studio with the likes of Chad VanGaalen, Ghostkeeper, Jon McKiel, Lab Coast, Devonian Gardens, Marlaena Moore, and Reuben & The Dark.
Now, nearly a decade since his last critically-acclaimed solo album, Bourne is back with Plant City, his latest collection of lush, psych-laden songcraft. The album was completed in early 2020 with assists from co-producers Chad Van Gaalen (Sub Pop recording artist and acclaimed animator) and Chris Dadge (Alvvays, Lab Coast), and its 12 songs cover a lot of ground, including idiosyncratic takes on garage pop, glammed-out rock cruisers, baroque pop, and dark psych-folk. It conjures a tasty blend of contemporary movers like Tim Presley’s White Fence, Andy Shauf, Chris Cohen, and Father John Misty with classic purveyors of the form like Nilsson, early McCartney, Elliott Smith, and peak Beach Boys/Brian Wilson splendor, while still remaining uniquely in the Ryan Bourne sonic universe. Featuring contributions from a variety of heavy hitters from his homebase of Calgary – including drummers Eric Hamelin (Ghostkeeper) and Dadge, Van Gaalen on flute & synth, classical violin mainstay Laura Reid, and twang master Wayne Garrett on pedal steel – Plant City is ripe to be heard and loved by many, and will easily cement his status as one of the most adventurous sonic architects and affecting songwriters out there.
https://ryanbourne.bandcamp.com/album/plant-city-2
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