OBLIO DUO is:
Steven Lee (Lawson) - guitars,vocals, piano, bass, harmonica;
William Duncan - Drums, vocals, piano, percussion, banjo.
THE ARCHERS:
Bryce McPherson - screamin' orange gretsch;
Jason Fox - lap steel, banjo, bass;
Ian Douglas-Moore - bass, Farfisa organ;
Brendan Heberton - banjo.
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Occasional Archers: Andy Wild - Stand up bass, Mike Neff - Doboro, Charles Von Rosenburg - mandolin, The Beautiful Loeppky and Teutsch - banjo and fiddle, Kloewer - guitar, Shana Voohauer - cello, Lauren Higgins - violin, Ester Hernandez - saw.
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Influences
leonard cohen, nilsson, tom waits, elliott smith, bob dylan, john lennon, sparklehorse, neil young, queens of the stone age, flaming lips, david bowie (esp. hunky dory, ziggy, and space oddity), pavement, wilco, howling wolf, mississippi john hurt, donovan, kris kristofferson, wille nelson, beatles, my morning jacket, jack elliot, pink floyd, townes van zandt, miles davis, tin hat trio, the shins, silver jews, black sabbath, stevie wonder, otis redding, bonnie 'prince' billy, sweetheart of the rodeo, daniel johnston, CAN, pretzel logic, frank zappa, hank williams, woody guthrie, jim o'rourke, jimi hendrix, leadbelly, johnny cash, lightnin' hopkins, nick drake, modest mouse, velvet underground, ween, thelonious monk.
Sounds Like
a sprawl of soft strums, stray noises, brittle piano, chunks of distortion and the twosome's fluttering, sleep-starved coos.
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THE ONION
Published: October 19, 2006:
There's a thin line between trying and trying way too hard. Denver's Oblio Duo, though, has nothing to worry about: William Duncan and Steven Lee Lawson seem to instinctively avoid the labored affection that makes most of Denver's singer-songwriters sound like total crap. Their self-titled CD came out last year, and while it barely registered on this city's hipster radar, it was one of the best local discs of 2005- a bursting at-the seams mess of melody and heartbreak that celebrated the days when Alex Chilton, Harry Nilsson, and Neil Young ruled (or at least should of ruled) the earth. Oblio Duo's new album, The Flag, sees the twosome enlisting guests from Pee Pee, The Blue Angels, and Big Timber, as well as fleshing out their onstage lineup with a backing band called The Archers. And while a retro vibe is present, hints of Wilco and Elliott Smith place the band squarely in its own time. Oblio Duo's songs might sound loose, unstudied, and even spontaneous, but make no mistake: their genius is not accident. Even if Duncan and Lawson themselves don't quite know how they do it.
-a.v. club (j. heller)
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On
June sixth, twenty Denver musical acts swap songs at the all night
auditory orgy called Denver Does Denver. Played on three stages between Bar Bar
and Old Curtis St, these two neighboring venues serve as the sets for
promiscuity in sound. Each band abandons their original material to
play a set covering another Denver band. The expansive lineup includes
a wide assortment of Denver's most adventurous artists, from singer
songwriters to electronic composers, hip hop crews to blues crooners,
improvisational avante gardists to old time country troops. Witness a massive intersection of local on local sound at Denver
Does Denver.
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