The Cactus Blossoms (USA)

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The Cactus Blossoms kommen für eine Tournee nach Europa. Während dieser Tour wird, diese bemerkenswerte Roots orientierte Band, nur 2 Konzerte in Deutschland absolvieren. Wir freuen uns sehr The Cactus Blossoms auf der Roadrunners Bühne präsentieren zu dürfen.

Als Page Burkum und Jack Torrey The Cactus Blossoms gründeten, hatten sie eigentlich nicht vor, den großen Wurf zu machen. Sie knüpften sich bekannte und auch weniger bekannte, obskure Country-, Folk- und Worksongs vor. Teils aus Interesse und tiefer Anerkennung für die Musik vor 1960, aber hauptsächlich aus Vergnügen an der Sache. Schon schnell bekam das sympathische und bescheidene Duo eine Auftrittsmöglichkeit in einer lokalen Bar in St. Paul, Minnesota, angeboten. Sie engagierten weitere Musiker um das Line Up komplett zu machen und ihre wöchentlichen Auftritte in der besagten Bar wurden zu Proben vor Publikum. Innerhalb kurzer Zeit erarbeiteten sich The Cactus Blossoms sich ein beachtliches Repertoire. Der Ball kam aber richtig ins Rollen, als ein gewisser JD McPherson sich bei der Band meldete mit der Absicht eine Platte zu produzieren. Daraus resultierte ihr Debut Album „You’re Dreaming“.

Wer die frühen Everly Brothers und Hank Williams liebt, wird auch die Musik von The Cactus Blossoms mögen. Das Album "You're Dreaming" bietet Country in seiner schönsten Form.

About the Cactus Blossoms:

When my brother and I started making music as The Cactus Blossoms there wasn't a big plan. We cut our teeth performing some well known and obscure country songs that were popular or unpopular pre-1960, partly out of curiosity and deep appreciation, but mostly because it was fun. Early on we were given a residency at the Turf Club in St. Paul, Minnesota. We got a band together and it became our weekly practice-in-public where we would pull out every song we could think of, no matter how well we knew it. It was our first chance to play all night and do whatever we wanted. Over the course of our year and a half at the Turf Club our repertoire had snowballed into an amalgam of original songs and a bunch of gut wrenching, tongue-in-cheek heartbreakers, that were 30 years older than us. Not everyone could tell what was new and what was old, and it didn't really matter. People just seemed to enjoy it. That's when the wheel got going and gave the illusion of spinning backwards. We weren't born in the wrong era. We just got into some music from a different era and found a way to make it our own.

Good fortune has followed us every step of the way, offering opportunities that seemed just beyond what we're ready for. It always stretches us out and makes us feel lucky as hell. When JD McPherson called and said he was interested in producing our record, it was the latest in a series of serendipitous events that brought us to where we are today. We opened for him at a gig in our hometown Minneapolis a few months earlier and had met him briefly, but never could have imagined that within a year we would be collaborating on a new album and criss-crossing America on tour with his band. JD is a music connoisseur with the singing voice of an angel, the boundless creative energy of a child, a scholar's mind and the auditory perception of a wolf. This guy was the guy. He wanted to do something sparse and rhythmic with simple melodic arrangements and it lined up perfectly with the direction our new songs were leading us.