Matt Larson, vocals, guitar, banjo and various other instruments; Stacy Lee King, vocals, piccolo, flute, fixer of the tascam, etc.
Influences
Old-time folk and mountain music with soul and a good tale; Harry Smtih Anthology, Doc Watson & family, Son House, the B.L.U.E.S., Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, Roscoe Holcomb, Woody Guthrie, Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family, Coal mining ballads, murder ballads, sea chanties and lots of odd stuff. Cold weather and snow, freight trains, Wisconsin folks, Mid-West folks, Norse Mythology, Hardanger Fiddle, Death, Pretty Stuff, the Fantastical and Mystical, and plenty of other... Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Cat Stevens, Nick Drake, Townes Van Zandt, The Meat Puppets, The Minutemen, The Beach Boys, Sonic Youth, Goran Bregovic, Uncle Tupelo/Son Volt/Wilco, Will Oldham, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, Django Reinhardt, Banjo Bill Cornett, brother teams of the 30's (Delmore, Allen, Monroe, etc.), The New Lost City Ramblers/Mike Seeger, Thuja, Oren Jenkins, Billy Bragg, Johnny Cash, Geoge Pegram, Wade Ward and Uncle Charlie Higgins, The Hammons Family, Hobart Smith, Kyle Creed, John Herrmann, Tommy Jarrell, TOM NEVERS HEAD and other pirateness, lots of clawhammer banjo/other old-time music, etc.
Also inspired by traditional cultures and indigenous peoples, especially Norse mythology, Lakota philosophy and Zen.
And poetry; William Carlos Williams, Walt Whitman, Sylvia Plath, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Gary Snyder and various others. Zen koans/haikus and Norse poetry. The Eddas.
Sounds Like
Emotionally driven, strange and unique folk music with eclectic suprises at every turn.
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Son of Lars is a Minneapolis based independent urban-folk duo, performing compelling original songs and unique arrangements of varied source material--influences from Appalachian mountain music, Eastern European travelers and silent cinema. Hear truthful ballads with acoustic guitar and flute and signature banjo & piccolo duets.
Bandleader, Matt Larson, was born in the Midwest and has lived there all of his life. It is where his music comes from; the thawing mud. With a mixture of urban and rural upbringing Matt has had a lot to draw on for his art; the fields and rivers and trees of Wisconsin, the towering concrete and steel of Chicago, the rolling hills and plains of Iowa, the cold northland, Minnesota…
Matt lived and performed in Chicago for four years. There he wrote many songs and developed his craft. He left the city in 2006 to record his first album in a small town in South Eastern Iowa. He now resides in Minneapolis and is working on the second Son Of Lars album.
Band members also write and perform with a.a. king & sons Theatre Company:
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