Lucas Johannes - guitar, vocals
Mark Cawthray- guitar, vocals
Jon Evans - bass
Duncan Dotterrer - drums
these people have played or on occasion play with us:
Jeni Sykes - violin, vocals
John Schaefer - harmonica, vocals
Jenny Brackhan- trumpet and banjo
Luke Mossman- banjo
Corey Teruya- Lap steel guitar
Sten Valin - drums
Grant Varvil - cello
Influences
The Handsome Family, Townes Van Zandt, Leonard Cohen and anyone who covers his songs, Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash, Lucero, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Okkervil River, The Beatles, Nillson, Donovan, Crazy Horse, Tom Petty, Rolling Stones, etc.
Sounds Like
A Looseleaf Script - 2008
the new album is now available online! Click to go to our CD Baby page and preview the album:
Download 'A Looseleaf Script' at:
Stream 'A Looseleaf Script' at:
Listen to APTR on Slacker.com's free Alt.country internet radio station alongside the genres best bands.
Action Packed Thrill Ride - 2006
The original 9 songs recorded by Lucas in a tiny closet of a room is now available as a free download. Click to go to our Last.fm page:
Check out Fast Geek Press, a really amazing online audio zine. This issue features Action Packed Thrill Ride, Magic Cyclops, Only Thunder, Charly 'City Mouse' Fasano, and more!
What the fine folks of printed media have to say about APTR:
Action Packed Thrill Ride, A Loose Leaf Script (Self-released). In summoning the best backwoods hollers and chants from classic country recordings, Action Packed Thrill Ride also provides moments of soaring sensitivity and structural complexity uncommon to most imitators. Tunes like "Something Tells Me" break down alt-country barriers and stake out new musical ground. — A.H. Goldstein, Westword
A Looseleaf Script encompasses "ramshackle country-rock, primal hoedowns, and arrangements that aren't afraid to veer into dizzying dynamics and lopsided rhythms. There's tenderness, too, resting like lazy currents besides crazed country-punk meltdowns and skin-crawling weirdness. Unlike many current practitioners of Americana in Denver, APTR offers that rarest of treats: a surprise at almost every turn." - Jason Heller, The Onion A.V. Club
"A Loose-leaf Script can take anyone listening to another time and place. Without the annoying twangs and banal, simpleton content found on most country albums, Action Packed Thrill Ride has found a way to create an intriguing and antiquated sound that will impress even the most avid country critic." - Laura Webb, UCD Advocate
"..on the cutting edge of Gothic-Americana, with harmonies heralding back to the days of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young...APTR is able to balance the bleak underworld of their Americana with persuasive percussion and vigorous violin, which lends to the contagious nature of the genre." - Jeremy Johnson - The Metropolitan
Hey Murder Ranks Fans, join us tomorrow at the 3 KINGS for ENDOTREND
FEST... Great cause, great bands and great times.. We play at 7pm. Hope
to see you there..
Superheroes of Philanthropy: Comic Book Silent Auction & Exhibition to benefit Bands for Lands FREE and ALL AGES!! Sat Sept 5th, 3pm-9pm The Oriental Theater 4335 44th Ave.
Action Packed looks damn good on prime time TV. You gentlemen make the Denver music scene very proud. I will have to agree that the best live band is any band that has Lucas in the lineup.
