Matt Lundquist - geetars, pedal steel, songs, sings
Toby Oler - banjo
Connor O'Sullivan - keys, bass, soundsmith
Emery Barter - lead geetar, dobro
Elliott Peck - sings, keys
Nate Brenner - bass
Rob Schwartz/Charlie Knote - drums
Honorary Guests:
Ben Andrews - fiddle/mandolin
Melissa Padgett - fiddle
Chris Padgett - laser flatpicking
Kevin McHugh - funky keys
Matt Nelson - good sax
Bart Thurber - punch ins
Influences
Waylon Jennings and Bob Dylan, Allman Brothers and Ray Charles, Greg Brown and Motown.
Sounds Like
The spirit of a dead banjo picker stomping on the overdrive pedals of an old station wagon.
One winter night while Matt Lundquist slept in a shack in the rolling hills of Southern Indiana, he was visited by his great, great grand Uncle Otto. In the resulting jam session, Otto gave young Lundquist a slide and taught him hundreds of his songs unheard since the 30's. He woke the next morning with a few embers in the stove to start a fire with and some riffs and hooks to begin collecting the songs of the wandering spirit of Otto Mobile.
His great, great grand Uncle Otto was an itinerant preacher by day, backslidin' roustabout by night. Often the lines blurred in the gospel/blues that Otto could belt out. All he left was letters of his stories, broken poems, samples of sermons and his picture with a banjo. He signed these letters, 'Otto Mobile'.
Three years later, after learning the melodies of the wind through the cracks in that yellowood forest shack, then learning slide in his sleep to the beat of big branch creek in the blue ridge mountains, then deciphering the lyrics of his high Sierra backcountry dreams, Lundquist set out to begin recording the lost musings of Otto Mobile.
Otto Mobile and the Moaners's Friend Space (Top 19)
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Great tunes. Thank you for sharing. And thanks for adding me. Hope to see you at a gig sometime. Where is your favorite place to play? I like Sweetwater Station in Larkspur. z
The Wild Card CD Release Party featuring Jerry Hannan and The Brigade begins at 8:30 p.m. on Friday, August 8. Rancho Nicasio is located 1 Old Rancheria Road, Nicasio, California 94946. Tickets to the concert are $10 and $12. For more information, visit call (415) 662-2219, email ranchoinfo@ranchonicasio.com or visit http://www. ranchonicasio. com/
CD Release Party to highlight tunes from the new record, including "Society," the song covered by Eddie Vedder on the soundtrack to Sean Penn's film, Into the Wild
Its a wicked pissah! buy the album. come see matt matt shake his groove thang with the men of many vices august 16th and 17th. we're gonna get guitarded.
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