Cowboy Junkies (w/ Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio & The Samples)

In 1988, Cowboy Junkies proved that there is an audience waiting for something quiet, beautiful and reflective. The Trinity Session was like a whisper that cut through the noise — and it was compelling. It stood out in the midst of the flash and bombast that defined the late 80’s. The now classic recording combined folk, blues and rock in a way that had never been heard before and went on to sell more than two million copies.

“The Trinity Session is in the great tradition of albums that establish a mood and sustain it so that it seems like one continuously unfolding song. The mood in this instance is hypnotic and introspective – an intense, melancholic longing that blends the elemental emotions of country music and the blues with the poetic world-weariness of the Velvet Underground.” Rolling Stone

With Cowboy Junkies’ most recent album, All That Reckoning, the band once again gently shakes the listener awake. Whether commenting on the fragile state of the world or on personal relationships, this new collection encourages the listener to take notice. It also may be the most powerful album Cowboy Junkies have yet recorded.

“Over 30 years into their career, Cowboy Junkies are in peak form, adding another inspired, alluring album to their repertoire.”
Associated Press

“Impressed; as vital as anything they’ve done.”
NPR

“Margo Timmins is, quite simply, the best singer in the lifespan of whatever we might choose to call this genre of music.”
Americana Highways

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DELVON LAMARR ORGAN TRIO
SEATTLE, WA
Old-School Jazz – Funk

The Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio delivers the lost art of “feel good music.” The ingredients of this intoxicating cocktail include a big helping of the 60’s organ jazz stylings of Jimmy Smith; a pinch of the snappy soul strut of Booker T. & the M.G.’s and then sprinkles-in Motown, Stax, blues, and cosmic Jimi-style guitar. It’s a stewing, brewing concoction

The band features organist Delvon Lamarr, a self-taught virtuosic musician, dynamo Jimmy James on guitar who eases through Steve Cropper-style chankinh, volcanic acid-rock freak-out lead playing and slinky Grant Green style jazz. Acclaimed NW drummer Julian MacDonogh recently joined the DLO3 party.

We might be looking at a big dance party ringing-in the year.

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THE SAMPLES
DENVER, CO
Indie / Alternative – rock

A visit to any random 1990’s college campus would no doubt yield the sounds of the Samples flowing thru the air. There lies the reason they are credited as the founding act of the so-called Dorm Rock genre of that era.

Their early reggae-meets-Dead, FM-friendly sound drew comparisons to The Police. But by their second album No Room, the Samples were staking their own ground as a leading act in the emerging indie- and alt-rock movements — and in the process helping launch the still-thriving Colorado music scene.

Thirty years, a dozen albums, a movie and hundreds of shows later, Sean Kelly leads the Samples into the City Center Ballroom to open up the Fest’s featured headline show.

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Show Schedule:

The Samples – 7 pm
Cowboy Junkies – 9 pm
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – 11 pm