I discovered these fellas a few weeks ago and have really been digging them. Their song "Get Me Out of Here" has been a really fun song to learn. Check out @sonsofrainier if ya get the chance. They make some real good tunes.
Been having sweet sweet times this winter! But wow does it feel like spring and summer is approaching like a bear at full charge. Exciting things coming, friends!
@sonsofrainier and Uncle Daddy and the Playful Pets on Thursday, February 26th! This one’s gonna be a doozy so buy your tickets online in advance. $10 advance, $15 - $25 at doors. Schedule:
6pm doors
6:30pm The Sons of Rainier
8:30pm Honky Tonk w/ Uncle Daddy and the Playful Pets
All ages + Bar w/ID
@wdekoch and I are shaking the cobwebs off and heading to bellingham for this show with @sammygelbz and @sonsofrainier on the 25th! Would love to see you there 🎼
Today's band highlight: The Sons of Rainier
They are performing Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
At the dawn of 2017, Devin Champlin brought a couple of his original songs to Dean Johnson with the invitation to sing in harmony together. That proved to be joyful, and they tapped Sam Gelband to join in with his sturdy baritone to be the middleman. Quickly this bore fruit, so they invited Charlie Meyer along for the ride with his lovely bass playing skills. At that, The Sons of Rainier were born.
Devin Champlin has been writing songs since he first picked up a hand-me-down guitar at the age of twelve. Through his teen years and early twenties he found his cultural home in DIY punk music and skateboarding. At some point in there he picked up his dad’s banjo more often than not and spent over a decade learning, playing and performing different styles of traditional American folk music, mostly acoustic blues and Southern fiddle tunes. He toured the country numerous times with acts like The Gallus Brothers, and The Crow Quill Night Owls, collaborating occasionally with elders of the scene and even being inducted into the Jug Band Hall Of Fame (yes that exists). His personal songwriting was always percolating inn the background, making sporadic appearances at house shows and the like. With The Sons of Rainier, Champlin found a loving home for many of these songs where they could be nurtured by the hands and voices of his compadres. The arrangements rest on the foundation of Devin’s songwriting, and is brought forth with warm tube amps, Dean’s unpredictable, weeping guitar lines, a loosely tuned snare, upright bass, and close three-part harmonies. It is 45 rpm folk music that is sweet and haunting. It’s a polaroid of a stolen slow dance.
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