Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Old Californio at the Mint March 2


Old Californio is a band that blends their own dusty San-Gabriel-Mountain- rock... it’s a little bit folk and a little Cosmic American Music. Tuesday, March 2nd They will be taking it live to the Mint, where they’ll be supporting the band, Backyard Tire Fire.

Here’s a little on the band:
Recorded in an old chicken coop garage turned recording studio in Pasadena,CA, Old Californio set out to mix a gritty soup of bucolic rock and roll influenced as much by Moby Grape, The Band and The Grateful Dead as by the chaparral canyons and ungovernable San Gabriel mountains themselves.

Songwriter Rich Dembowski sings with a heartfelt voice that might remind some of the Band's Richard Manuel. His lyrics on the 10 song Westering Again evoke winsome images of riparian vistas and wine stained front porches, of places forgotten and out of the way. The album feeds from brightguitar-driven melodies with complicated and earthy arrangements, mixed in with a little down-home country twang and dovetailing instrumental jams that venture to the psychedelic/ philosophic.

"Westering Again" has been picked up by Parasol Records for distribution and Parasol has offered to release their next record which is going in-studio at the end of this month. They were featured artists for the online Americana Magazine, Alternate Root and noted as "Emerging Americana Artists of 2009". Other positive notes from the year: the song, “Just Like Joseph Campbell” was picked as a KCRW “Top Tune of the Day”, they became a member of the Hunnypot Radio family and they made several best albums of 2009 lists.

You can listen to them here:
http://www.oldcalifornio.com/
www.myspace.com/oldcalifornio

Show Info:
Wagatail Presents: Old Californio/ Backyard Tire Fire
Tuesday, March 02: At The Mint
8:00 PM (7:30 PM doors) / 21+ $10.00 / $12.00 day of show
http://www.themintla.com/
6010 West Pico Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90035-2625
(323) 954-9400

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