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Western Fifth
Country / Americana / Folk Rock

New album 'Stand Like a Thief' out now



Minneapolis / St Paul, Minnesota
United States

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Member Since9/20/2005
Band Websitewww.westernfifth.com
Band MembersRyan Holweger
Jon Wurm
Thomas Case
Josh Christenson
Tim Heinlein

contact: westernfifth@hotmail.com
Sounds Like“I couldn’t overcome feeling I’d been dropped into the novel world of Cormac McCarthy’s gritty western fiction meets pure Souther Gothic. Lyrics are imbued with a straightforward clarity and darkness. Melodies echo universal hard-scrabble characters and striking vistas….You can nearly feel the fading heart, the grieving, the loss, the warm fluids running across cold fingers.” - Refueled Magazine

“lyrics that are beautiful, sadly poetic, and assume an almost existential air….ranging from delicate, quiet acoustic to a full-band blast, it leaves nothing to be desired” – 30music.com

“these songs create an audio landscape of hard times and cold winters with a sweet, sad reverie and sad twangs of yesteryear.” - MinneapolisFuckingRocks.com

“it feels like the late nights spent on porches across America at the end of a party where those remaining are a little too drunk to get home and so sit, smoke cigarettes and wait for sobriety or dawn, whichever comes first.” – Cakein15.com

“The song “In The End I Went Away” has a hazy sheen over it’s americana roots. Banjos sound distant, guitars and vocals are distorted and loneliness and pain are the overriding emotions. In other words it’s wonderful.” - Songs:Illinois

“They aren't perfect but that's what makes them special.” - Music Emissions

“Western Fifth sing a sad little song with perfectly placed piano bits and vocal howls that tug at the heartstrings, making for a great soundtrack to a cold night warmed only by whiskey and neon signs in a dive bar...sounds like a dirtier, grittier Wilco, with a touch of Up Records-era Modest Mouse, thanks to their howling guitars and strange, raspy voices." MFR

“The five-piece plays slow, atmospheric songs with a confidence that makes it sound like it has been doing this for decades.” – St. Paul Pioneer Press

"There are many, many points in the music where a lethargic phrase all of a sudden takes a breath and then slams into you with what can only be called full-on lethargy, akin to being broadsided by a bus." - howwastheshow.com

“Dark and perverse” – 30music.com
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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Aug 9 2009 8:00P
501 Club Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sep 24 2009 8:00P
Sauce Spirits & Soundbar Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Their sound is lonesome, haunting, and almost classic country at times, yet sounds right at home in the world of independent rock music. Western Fifth creates a visionary sound, founded on heartfelt and often dark lyrics, blended with both classic and eclectic instrumentation.

The band recorded their shambling, country-tinged debut EP in a single weekend during the winter of 2006. Lasting nearly a day and a half, the mostly improvised sessions were tracked at Silver Ant Studio in Minneapolis.

Western Fifth started playing shows at various venues around the Twin Cities in the summer of 2006, and has since expanded to a six-piece ensemble. In addition to the traditional guitar, bass and drums, they incorporate a myriad of instruments into their music, including piano, lap steel guitar, Wurlitzer, trumpet, mandolin, organ, and banjo.

“…much of their stuff was like listening to The Replacements if they had hired Steve Earle to do their arrangements for them, and then tossed a trumpet in from time to time to round things out. The lyrics were rich in imagery and the music was spare at turns, despite having six group members onstage, but as they got rolling it sort of felt like you'd been hit in the head with a bar of soap shoved into a sock—it was a lot to digest, emotionally. The songs had a worn, frayed-at-the-edges feel as if they had emerged, fully formed, from the drawer of some long-forgotten piece of furniture in the basement of an even longer-forgotten, broken-down farmhouse.” - Pat O’Brien, howwastheshow.com


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Blood Root Mother


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Jul 7 2009 9:07 PM

Hello!

I just wanted to stop by to say hello and give you a little update on what Blood Root Mother is up to! We will be recording an EP of new music in August, and we recently finished recording a live DVD. The DVD is currently unreleased and I actually just saw it for the first time a few days ago. It features the last two performances with Tony Ellis still alive, and some footage from the tribute show we played on the night of his funeral.

There are some cool covers, as well as some NEW music that will be on our upcoming EP. We're very excited about the new music and we'd like to share a sneak peak with you. Here's a video of a new tune called Run Bobby Run:






Let us know what you think!

Peace,
Elliot
Jeremiah Christiansen





Jun 20 2009 1:57 PM

Thanks for the add! Make sure to check out the music on the site, and leave a comment. I would love to know what you think.

Thanks!

Miah
Jeremiah Christiansen





Jun 20 2009 1:57 PM

Thanks for the add! Make sure to check out the music on the site, and leave a comment. I would love to know what you think.

Thanks!

Miah
The Moon Goons





Jun 18 2009 8:22 AM

Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=91972094572&ref=ts Get them here! http://moongoons.com/blog/?cat=74
Blood Root Mother


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Jun 10 2009 9:56 PM





What's up?

Blood Root Mother will be playing at Trocaderos in Minneapolis on Friday, June 26th. I cannot stress enough how awesome this show will be. We're playing with three of the sweetest local rock bands: Claret, Niobium and Casanatra. If you haven't heard these guys, check them out immediately! Please come to this show!!

I recommend coming during happy hour for two for one drinks along with free buffet, which is delicious. We'll be hanging out at Trocs all night, so come by and chill/party with us :)

Again, here's the event info:

Trocaderos
107 3rd Ave N
Minneapolis, MN
18+ // $6 // 8pm


Please come out and support some great local music! Music starts at 9:30pm and we should go on around midnight. Invite your friends, pile into a car (or a party bus), and together we will make this one of the highlights of the summer :)

Peace,
Elliot
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May 28 2009 4:33 PM

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the Gunpowder Plot





May 6 2009 10:41 PM

check out our songs. 6 mins tops. Thanks
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May 4 2009 1:06 PM

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May 3 2009 7:54 AM

Hey, how's the weekend going? Just letting you know I'm taking on a few more projects this summer and it would be awesome to work with you guys. So if you need any Recording, Live Sound or Producing, be sure to let me know.

Namaste.

andy
The Sunny Era





May 2 2009 11:41 PM

Hey guys, glad you could share the stage with us last night. You guys were great! Keep in touch...

Eric - Laila - Rob
Matt Mills and the Wandering Past





Apr 28 2009 10:05 PM

hey, thanks for the add..

hope you like the music..
THEE VANILLA SHOELACE





Apr 27 2009 3:54 AM

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John Dayton





Apr 16 2009 2:52 PM

Great to be friends,. Come hear my music sometime, thanks.


PEACE
John Dayton





Apr 16 2009 3:54 AM

Hey thanks for having me! Peace.
ANALOG COLLECTION





Apr 15 2009 7:36 AM

THEE VANILLA SHOELACE will have their big reunion, then the ANALOG COLLECTION will rock out, and then TOLLUND MOSES will do their thang. Club Underground is in the basement of the Spring Street Tavern at 355 MONROE ST. NE in MINNEAPOLIS.

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This is the first Shoelace gig in years, Tollund Moses' first gig ever, and just another day in the life of the 'Logs. There will be unicorns visible to those in the know, although the presence of unicorns is likely to be felt be anyone within a 72-mile radius of the club. Things will shimmer, sparkle, and glitter, and somebody may throw up. It will be louder than you expected it would. Beverages will be available in the form of liquor-type, beer-type, soda-pop-type, and water-type. They make decent hamburgers, and will cook you a frozen pizza for a nominal fee. The kick drum will be 26 inches in diameter. Most of the guitars will have 6 strings until one breaks. The bass guitars will be standard 4-string-type. Singers will do their best. The upstairs part of the venue offers terrible singing via karaoke at no extra charge. It doesn't smell bad in there, although sometimes it smells like old beer and new pot. One time, the floor was kinda sticky, over near the bar, but you can walk around those areas. This whole thing will end really late at night/early Saturday morning, and some people are likely to be kinda tipsy. If you drink, don't drive, if you drive, don't drink. If they charge you to get in, just tell them you're on the guest list, and then while the door person is looking for your name on the little notepad, run past them really fast and sit down on one of the couches, all relaxed-like, and when they give you crap, just say "Dude, I been sitting here all night, get outta my face before I have to call Reggie.
" While they're trying to figure out who Reggie
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Apr 11 2009 6:51 PM

Tonight at the Nestor in Fargo - S FACTOR with- JAIK WILLIS & HYDROPONIC PARTY PANTS
Tony





Apr 3 2009 6:43 PM

so, i guess ill be seeing you on May 19. Brown Derby gonna blow you folks up. We have to get a duet going, after drinks are consumed, of course.
<Jake>





Mar 25 2009 12:32 AM

Hey guys.
Looks like your doing pretty good! New album is amazing!
kevin m. kirker





Mar 9 2009 4:26 AM

i just wanted to drop by and say hello! hope your year is going well thank you for everything! ;D happy harping!
Celia





Mar 8 2009 3:38 AM

Thanks for adding me, love your style xx
Stuffed Pheasant





Mar 1 2009 1:12 AM



Yum.
Hope to see you there!
- Stuffed Pheasant
http://stuffedpheasant. blogspot. com

Corinne Chapman





Feb 26 2009 7:31 PM

I know I've asked some of you and I'm sorry for hounding, but it's getting down to the wire. There are only 2 days of voting left. Please just take a minute to go vote for me. Little Big Town is taking the top 4 bands onto their tour to open a show. I'm the ONLY girl in the top. It takes a minute. Click the picture below or go to www. eventful. com/littlebigtown and DO IT NOW!!! Thanks! If you've already voted, pass the word...Anything helps! Thanks again! Please, please, pretty please?


BLUE FELIX





Feb 16 2009 9:05 AM

CHECK OUT THE NEW PROMO VID!!
Professional Cockfighter





Jan 27 2009 8:31 PM

Dios Mio! There's only one episode left of series two after this one!

Sparkle Picnic: Coupon Day (Episode #10, Series 2)


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Harmonious Wail





Jan 26 2009 6:43 PM

check out our show on 1/30 at "The Cedar" 416 Cedar Ave. S to see gypsy jazz at it's finest!

Thanks!

-Wail
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