The Great Peacock Record Release w/Whitehorse & Derek Hoke: at The Basement (Nashville, TN) Sat. March 9, 2013

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The Great Peacock Record Release w/Whitehorse & Derek Hoke

Pop/Rock

Nashville Scene Critic's Pick …

Andrew Nelson and Blount Floyd introduce Great Peacock as a product of the fire burning out under their previous band. Shotgun Lover had piss and vinegar to spare, but their output revealed little of the players’ personality beyond an ill-fated determination to pick up where Uncle Tupelo left off. “Take Me to the Mountain,” the single they’ve leaked from GP’s forthcoming EP, grows slowly from meditative hymn to chanted anthem, owing as much to Ben E. King as mountain music. Considering the success of artists with a similar profile like Mumford and Sons and The Lumineers, it’ll be worth catching Great Peacock in such an intimate setting, and with such good company. Though the title of Whitehorse’s sophomore album, The Fate of the World Depends on This Kiss, suggests flair for the dramatic, Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland wear it well, applying dark and imaginative twists to rootsy tunes like a Canadian version of Dead Can Dance. Derek Hoke takes a trip over the river to round out the bill with a set of future standards from his quality-crafted “quietbilly” songbook.

—STEPHEN TRAGESER

The Basement

Sat. 3/9/13
Show: 9:00 PM
$5
21 and over
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Great Peacock
Whitehorse
Derek Hoke

Great Peacock

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Rock, Folk, Pop

Nashville TN

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After half a decade spinning wheels on the Great American Highway, through the brutal heartbreaks and dire sacrifices that come with chasing the mythical rock & roll dragon, Great Peacock’s Andrew Nelson and Blount Floyd have finally eased up on the throttle. Like rock & roll as it transitioned from the erratic abandon of the late ’60s to the country-tinged storytelling of the early ’70s—donning cowboy boots and dipping its bucket in the well of American folk music—they’ve put their electric guitars back in the case, rolled their stacks back from 11, and let a serene hush wash over them. Their sound now? Beautiful, unadorned, moving—the bountiful harvest of a deep friendship and an unbreakable musical bond.

“The hangover is definitely starting to wear off,” Nelson says. “The amps had gotten a little too loud.”

“With our old band, we’d been playing all this angsty downer rock,” Floyd explains. “So with Great Peacock, we wanted the songs to be simple, poppy—infectious.”

For the first time, Nelson and Floyd weren’t writing songs for themselves, but rather songs they hoped would connect with fans. With Great Peacock they would embrace an unselfish, unpretentious aesthetic. “I don’t want to alienate people any more,” Nelson says, laughing a bit as he recalls the darker, more confessional songs he used to write. “I’m at a point where I want as many people to like our music as possible.”

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Whitehorse

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Rock, Singer-Songwriter

Hamilton Ontario

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Six Shooter Records' Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet tie the musical knot with the debut of their new band, Whitehorse, marrying their talent and chemistry on stage as an undeniably smoldering duo.

Individually, they have been recognized with awards and nominations from the Juno Awards, the Canadian Folk Music Awards, the Hamilton Music Awards, the Independent Music Awards and the Polaris Prize.

Gutsy and resolute in their pursuits of sound and substance, Luke and Melissa's fusion of the personal and professional brings to mind the road-tested romance of Johnny and June.

Whitehorse breaks headlong and heartstrong in pursuit of it all, cards on the table, everything on the line. Whitehorse figures the odds the way travelers count miles, undaunted by twists and turns of luck and road, so let dice and wheel roll.

This fall, Whitehorse will join Stuart McLean and the Vinyl Cafe for shows across Ontario. The band's debut shows at the Glenn Gould Studio (Toronto) and Studio Theatre (Hamilton) in September are already sold out.

"Smokin' hot." - Ron Sexsmith

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Derek Hoke

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Americana

Nashville TN

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Derek Hoke has crafted a collection of equally endearing and infectious songs for his long awaited sophomore release – Waiting All Night. Out August 21, 2012 on Electric Western / Thirty Tigers, Waiting All Night picks up right where Hoke left off with his first release Goodbye Rock N Roll. There is a significant difference here though. If Goodbye Rock N Roll was slow crafted, simmered in Hoke’s brain on low, and came to life on a lazy saw dust floor one night in town, then Waiting All Night was born under the lights on stage. It’s clear that Hoke and his band have been affected by the past years of playing week after week. Nashville has a way of doing that to a singer. A way of molding a voice around the lingering smoke and whiskey hanging in the air night after night. And first and foremost, Derek Hoke is a singer. The songs, even the ballads, reach out and yearn for a late night in a dark room. It’s the same feeling you get when you leave the house at 2am to catch last call…because if you don’t you might miss something. You might miss the steel guitar or meandering piano solos and telecaster riffs. Well, get out of the house, because you won’t want to miss a tune on Waiting All Night.

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