BAND OF HORSES with Cass Mccombs and Tyler Ramsey January 30, 2008

BAND OF HORSES with Cass Mccombs and Tyler Ramsey

Achieving musical transcendence is a tricky feat, almost definitively. If it happens at all, it happens naturally and perhaps nobody knows that better than Seattle, Washington's Band of Horses. Guitarist/vocalist Ben Bridwell and guitarist Mat Brooke formed Band of Horses in 2004, after the dissolution of their nearly ten-year run in northwest melancholic darlings Carissas Wierd. Band of Horses rises from the ashes of that well-loved band. After playing music with each other for over a decade, Bridwell and Brooke picked up together again when Bridwell began fleshing out his compositions post-Carissas. Buoyed by Bridwells warm, reverb-heavy vocals (which strangely channel a dichotomous blend of Wayne Coyne, Brian Wilson and Doug Martsch,) Band of Horses woodsy, dreamy songs ooze with amorphous tension, longing and hope. Catch this exciting performance of Baltimore-based singer/songwriter Cass McCombs' moody but often surprisingly humorous music. Cass McCombs is best known for the album 'Not the Way,' released in 2002.

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