September 25 - 8pm doors - 9pm show

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The Deslondes are a New Orleans-based band, whose raw, stripped-down sound springs to mind a country-meets-R&B hybrid rooted partly in the Texas singer-songwriter tradition, partly on the weathered floor of a Louisiana dance hall.

The band released its debut album, The Deslondes, in 2015 on New West Records, which was praised by NPR, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone and The New York Times, among others.

But the band’s history starts well before that. This fall The Deslondes will reissue their debut album’s predecessor, Holy Cross Blues, and will tour with original band member Matt Bell on lap steel and electric guitar. The Holy Cross Blues reissue will feature a new cover design, and will be available digitally and on CD via the Deslondes’ online shop, as well as on fall tour dates.

Holy Cross Blues, released under the band’s original name, The Tumbleweeds, features Deslondes’ founding members Sam Doores, Dan Cutler and Riley Downing, along with then-Tumbleweeds Matt Bell and drummer Tony Fricky. Deslondes members Cameron Snyder and John James Tourville joined the Tumbleweeds lineup shortly before the group changed its name to The Deslondes.

Holy Cross Blues was recorded at Nashville’s The Bomb Shelter with co-producer Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Benjamin Booker). The album reaches a bit further back into American roots history than The Deslondes’ modern country-soul sound. The album features call-and-response gospel-blues (“I Got Found”), classic cowboy songs (“Throw Another Cap on the Fire”) and ’60s doo-wop (“Depression Blues”). Holy Cross Blues captured on tape some the band’s early musical evolution, a glimpse at an elusive, mercurial band on the brink of something bigger.

The Deslondes are currently at work on their sophomore album, to be released by New West in 2017.

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MECHANICAL RIVER

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Mechanical River is the moniker for Charleston, South Carolina native Joel Hamilton’s most recent musical project – a lo-fi folk masterpiece constructed with fuzzed out, crooning vocals, crunchy acoustic guitar arrangements, and drum machine percussion. In the spirit of true DIY, Hamilton plays every instrument on his debut album, ‘Astral Castle’, which he also recorded and produced himself. Tracks for the album were then mixed at Electric Lady Studios by Ben Baptie (Beck, Haim) and completed by famed mastering engineer Tom Coyne (Adele, Taylor Swift). Songs “Pomelos” and “I Need Love” are already seeing much attention (and rotation) from tastemakers at KEXP in Seattle and other online channels.

The Charleston Pour House

1977 Maybank Hwy
Charleston, SC 29412


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