Brian Alter - drums, backing vocals Sam Collins - acoustic & electric bass, backing vocals Nathan Wade - vocals, electric & acoustic guitar
and sometimes with: Lincoln Barr - electric guitar, backing vocals
Influences
PRIMARY INFLUENCES:
Chris Whitley, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Ennio Morricone, Tom Waits, Emmylou Harris, Ry Cooder, John Fahey, Neil Young, Hank Williams Sr., Wilco, Billy Holiday, Jeff Buckley, Bill Frisell, 16 Horsepower, Mark Ribot, Gillian Welch, Johnny Cash, Alan Lomax, Daniel Lanois, pat mAcdonald, Leadbelly, Blind Willie Johnson, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Harry Smith... BENEATH THE SURFACE:
Fugazi, Bjork, Astor Piazzola, David Byrne, Carl Stalling, Steely Dan, Medeski Martin & Wood, Eric Dolphy, Thelonious Monk, Tin Machine, Bernard Herrmann, Soundgarden, Loretta Lynn, Neko Case, The Kronos Quartet, Andrew Bird, Miles Davis, Syd Barrett, Calexico, Almeda Riddle, Charles Mingus, Shudder to Think, Captain Beefheart, John Zorn, Hal Willner, Califone, Buddy Emmons, Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant, Frank Zappa... ON THE SCREEN:
David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese, Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, Terry Gilliam, Sergio Leone, Krystoff Kieslowski, Orson Welles, Robert Altman, Sam Peckinpah... ON THE PAGE:
William S. Burroughs, David Foster Wallace, Anne Sexton, Cormac McCarthy, Lorrie Moore, Hunter S. Thompson, Mark Leyner, Sam Shepard, Chuck Palahniuk, Raymond Carver, A.M. Homes, Charles Bukowski, Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Twain...
Nathan Wade & The Dark Pioneers are Seattle’s purveyors of apocalyptic Americana, hitching the rusted scraps of American roots music to a battered pick-up truck and dragging it across a broken 21st Century landscape. It’s a cinematic trip down a desolate highway as the dashboard rattles apart and the truck radio blasts songs of murder, drug abuse, and Biblical arcana.
Their new album, The Chroma Session EP, was recorded live at Chroma Sound Studio in Seattle. It's an electrified, slash-and-burn reinvention of songs from Nathan Wade's debut album, The Dead Leaves Sing, along with a double-barrel shot of new music. The Chroma Session EP stands as a bullet-riddled mile marker on the road to musical armageddon, a future the band is driving into at high speed; behind them, a blood-red sun settles in the dust they've left behind.
Recommended if you like: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Chris Whitley, Night Of The Hunter, gasoline fumes, Cormac McCarthy novels, Led Zeppelin III, dark alleys, the Book of Revelation.
We're in town performing the 11th at the Pensione Nichols at 11th for the Cabaret Festival! Come out! I'll also be doing a pared down set at the Pensione on the 12th at 8pm and the Can Can on the 15th at 3:30. Come!
Beirut: Mount Wroclai (Idle Days) Nathan Wade & the Dark Pioneers: Long Black Lillies Erin Jordan & the Whiskey Romance: Jane The Dad Horse Experience: Lord Must Fix my Soul Nina Nastasia: We Never Talked Elvis Costello & the Attractions: Green Shirt THe ARmy of BRoken TOys experiment shelf: Sleep Schizophrenic Sheriff Against Me!: Cliche Guevara Crooks and Nannies: Burning Down the House The Doors: My Wild Love Voltaire: Stakes & Torches Zydepunks: Satan Dance You Fucker Johnny Cash: Ring of Fire Defiance, Ohio: The Things We Won't Settle But Let Set The Men That Will Not be Blamed for Nothing: A Traditional Victorian Gentleman's Boasting Song Melora Creager: Girl Lunar Explorer Unwoman: Envy Magnetic Fields: Underwear
Agent Ribbons: The Wolf Serendipity Musik: Wind Song Tiger Lillies: Cancer Sophe Lux: Sophia Song Kate Bush: Cloudbusting HUMANWINE: Rivolta Silenziosa Squeeze-bot: So Sue Me Beirut: La Banlieue Skeletonbreath: Llarimo DeVotchKa: The Last Beat of My Heart Mark Sinnis: A Southern Tale Nathan Wade & the Dark Pioneers: Long Black Lilies Midnight Serenaders: Baby (Darlin') Baby Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan: Revolver Birdeatsbaby: Letter to Charlie Butthole Sufers: Ballad of Naked Man White Stripes & Holly Golightly: Well It's True that we Love One Another Waves Under Water: Nothing More Jason Webley & Sxip Shirey: March of the Hoohahs Veronique Chevalier: Kakajaka Polka Vermillion Lies: Bonnie & Clyde Walter Sickert & THe ARmy of BRoken TOys: Viktagraph
I would like to share some exciting news: after a long application process, the NYC Musical Saw Festival was approved by the Guinness Book of Records to attempt to break the current world record for the 'Largest Musical Saw Ensemble'. The current world record (set in Poland last year) is 27 musical saw players playing together. Could we set a new world record on July 18th? We need your help for it! Please join us and be part of a Guinness World Record breaking attempt at the 7th annual NYC Musical Saw Festival: When: Saturday, July 18th, 2pm Where: Trinity Church, 37th street corner of 31st Avenue, Astoria (Queens), NYC. Admission: $10 Info: www.MusicalSawFestival.org
For the Guinness World Record attempt all sawists will be playing 2 pieces together (in what we call the 'Chorus of the Saws'): Ave Maria/Schubert - accompanied by church organ Over the Rainbow - accompanied by piano The 'Chorus of the Saws' will be conducted by Scott Munson.
Hope to see you there, and please - pass the info on - we need to get as many musical saw players to participate as possible to set a new Guinness World Record!
Wow, I mean WOW Nate! That new track "This World" is friggin' amazing. If that's the sound that is being forged for the new album than I can hardly wait. Great work guys!!
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