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July 31, 2009
The Championship and Junipar Tar
07/31/2009 9:00 PM
The Championship
"One of Bay View’s rootsiest bands has just gotten rootsier. The Championship’s 2005 debut album was a more modern exercise in Americana, firmly grounded in contemporary folk-rock and alt-country, but there’s little about the group’s rustic new album, Midnight Golden, that couldn’t have been recorded decades ago.
“'We wanted to get back to that late-’60s, early-’70s, AM gold feel,' explains singer/songwriter Joe Crockett, 'but the album definitely turned out more country than I’d expected. It’s still my songwriting, but once you add that steel guitar, it takes on much more of a western feel.'
"Mournful twang, lonesome harmonica and leisurely songs about long drives and drinking lend to the country vibe, and this time out, Crockett’s voice has taken on some of Waylon Jennings’ gravity. The album is contentedly pensive; if The National recorded a country album, it might sound like this."
~ ExpressMilwaukee.com
Juniper Tar
When was the last time you saw a mourning dove land in a pine tree near the stage while a band played? Me neither. At the Evolution Revolution art and music festival June 17, Juniper Tar drew the bird’s appreciation during their set of rustic, electric and just-plain-hard to define tunes – maybe Walt Whitman fronting the late-era Byrds. But the group is definitely not hard to listen to. Opening with a transformed reading of Townes Van Zandt’s "Rex’s Blues," the band moved through a set of songs that swelled from quiet to loud, often within the same tune. The brothers Schleicher added rustic harmonies to reluctant frontman Jason Mohr’s vocals, which seem to be psychedelic in the best sense of the word. They have developed the knack to take on miniature musical tangents and arrive back via ESP, not time signatures. When these guys are on, the music is a drug.
-Blaine Schultz, The Scene
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