Backseat Sandbar

We are giving away 5 PAIRS OF TICKETS to see Jonathan Tyler and The Northern Lights w/ Screen Porch Door at Buster’s this Wednesday, 11/4.  FIRST FIVE PEOPLE TO COMMENT WIN THE TICKETS. Here are the details for the show…

Billiards open at 7pm
Doors open at 7pm, Show at 8pm
Show is 18+
Tickets $10

Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights

Hailing from Dallas, Texas, Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights first began to take shape when childhood friends Jonathan and Kansas began playing guitar in their teens. With shared common influences ranging from the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix to Bob Dylan, The Band and Muddy Waters, the two were compelled to write and play together. From the start it was JT on vocals, playing a mean, bluesy lead guitar, with Kansas on rhythm adding a harder rock edge, a combo that was instantly right. Several years and incarnations later, they were joined by musical prodigy Nick Jay on bass and a hard-hitting drummer from Oklahoma named Jordan Cain. The core of the band was at last in place and the sound began to gel. Tha band is playing over 200 shows a year and have opened for the likes of Heart, The Black Crowes, Kenny Wayne Sheppard, Erykah Badu, The Arc Angels, Deep Purple, Leon Russell, Kool and the Gang, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Stoney LaRue, and O.A.R. That is a hefty list considering the band has only been playing live shows together since January of 2007.

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Rooted in indie-folk and Americana, Screen Door Porch has been described as “an electrified Gillian Welch/David Rawlings with ambient textures and a sound that is country-sweet and a little dirty.” Colored with slide guitar, mandolin, harmonica, foot percussion, and strong vocal harmony, SDP has an uncommon sound strengthened by way of intricate songwriting and acoustic-electric airiness.

When they’re not touring the country, Screen Door Porch splits time between the Teton Mountains of Jackson Hole and the Live Music Capital—Austin, Texas. The nomadic duo has been fortunate to share concert bills with Willie Nelson, Wilco, Bryan Wilson, Yonder Mountain String Band, James McMurtry, Grace Potter, and Kaki King. They have played festival bills for over 8,000 concertgoers in addition to small coffeehouses, clubs and house concerts.

To understand SDP’s appeal is get a glimpse into the individual.

If back in the early eighties Gillian Welch and Bonnie Raitt cornered Townes Van Zandt at a party, engaged in a massive love-in, and produced a female musical offspring, she might sound a little something like Seadar Rose. Grammy-nominated songwriter Darrell Scott recognized Rose as having “a cool sound.” And yes, that’s her real name.

Aaron Davis’s uncanny guitar prowess ranges from finger-style to gritty slide playing, adding rootsy mandolin chops, harp licks, and percussion toys to the mix. He won runner-up honors at the 2008 Dreams Acres Songwriting Competition and among his contemporaries Ryan Adams and Lucinda Williams, his new release Rear View Mirror was called “One of the Best Americana Releases” by Rootstime. The album also charted at #16 on the Freeform American Roots Chart alongside Bob Dylan and Old Crow Medicine Show.

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