CAPLIVE: JOHN CRAIGIE with special guest TRÉ BURT
CAPLIVE: JOHN CRAIGIE with special guest TRÉ BURT
Be there for the long-awaited CapLive debut of this emerging singer/songwriter. Much like community, music nourishes us mentally, emotionally and spiritually. It also invites us to come together under the same roof and in a shared moment. In similar fashion, John Craigie rallies a closeness around music anchored by his expressive and stirring songcraft, emotionally charged vocals, lively soundscapes, and uncontainable spirit.
Folk and blues singer/songwriter Tré Burt opens an evening of amazing music.
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John Craigie, the Portland, OR-based singer, songwriter and producer invites everyone into this space on his 2024 full-length album, Pagan Church. Following tens of millions of streams, sold out shows everywhere, and praise from Rolling Stone and more, he continues to captivate.
“The music is always evolving and devolving with each new record,” he observes. “With my last album, Mermaid Salt, I really wanted to explore the sound of isolation and solitude as everyone was heading inside. With this record, I wanted to record the sound of everyone coming back out.”
In order to capture that, he didn’t go about it alone… Instead, he joined forces with some local friends. At the time, TK & The Holy Know-Nothings booked a slew of outdoor gigs in Portland and they invited Craigie to sit in for a handful of shows. The musicians instinctively identified an unspoken, yet seamless chemistry with each other. Joined by three of the five members, Craigie cut “Laurie Rolled Me a J” and kickstarted the process. With the full band in tow, they hunkered down in an old schoolhouse TK & The Holy Know-Nothings had converted into a de facto headquarters and studio, and recorded the eleven tracks on Pagan Church.
Tré Burt comes from deep musical roots, with influences from The Delfonics and Otis Redding, to Marvin Gaye and The Temptations. Drives with his father and grandfather were his sanctuary from a tumultuous childhood… that music was their blessed score.
Traffic Fiction—Burt’s third album on Oh Boy Records is an unexpected musical reinvention rooted in his new and idiosyncratic version of classic soul. The soul that animates so many of these 14 tracks? That was the music shared by grandfather and grandson.
On his musical journey, Burt has become a peripatetic troubadour, tapping into American folk and blues partly as a matter of necessity—it’s not sensible to busk, after all, with some sophisticated band at your back. Bits of those other roots and compositional ambitions emerged on 2021’s You, Yeah, You, the vivid result of his first proper studio sessions. On Traffic Fiction, they are in full bloom with Burt as urgent and commanding as he’s ever been… the sound of this artist confidently bending a sentimental past to his present will.
