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The Suitcase Junket - Shitty Barn Session No. 151
The Shitty Barn
Spring Green, WI
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From the salvaged sounds of American juke joints, back porches, honky tonks and rock clubs, The Suitcase Junket conjures an entirely new sound in this essential rock collection, Pile Driver, to be released on April 21, 2017 on Signature Sounds.

Matt Lorenz - a Vermont born musician, visual artist and tinkerer, is a professional showoff.  "I aim to write good songs and sing them honestly" says Lorenz.  He does that and more.  The Suitcase Junket's artistic vision is one of salvaged and repurposed objects, images and emotions.  His innovative junk-percussion constructions, original album art featuring inanimate objects with wings, and the high craft of his songwriting all combine to create a unique and engaging entity with a force and style all its own.  Lorenz's self-taught throat-singing adds a fascinating edge to the overall sound.  "I'm interested in the hidden voices that reside within things: the songs stuck inside instruments, the story behind the object, the mysterious weight of a word, the harmonic sequence that's in every note waiting to be broken as light through a prism."

Lorenz tours The Suitcase Junket nationally playing on festival stages and city street corners, in concert halls and dive bars, in living rooms and listening rooms.  The sound isn't easy to pin into a genre, but The Suitcase Junket is often likened to Tom Waits, The Black Keys and Andrew Bird.  Lorenz's songwriting is unexpected, powerful and poignant, drawing from the deep well of the American musical traditions of folk, rock, blues and storytelling, all sharpened with a keen pop sensibility. With masterful command over instruments of his own creation, he silences a room with the first notes of his throat singing and holds the crowd until the final chords of his guitar.  When he plays you get the sense that he is truly playing and that he'd be doing it just as joyfully with or without an audience.

Lorenz has released four albums as The Suitcase Junket: Sever and Lift (2009), Knock It Down (2011), Make Time (2015) and Dying Star (2016).  "The band" is built around a resurrected dumpster-diamond guitar, an old oversized suitcase, a hi-hat, a gas-can baby-shoe foot-drum, a cookpot-soupcan-tambourine foot-drum, a circular-saw-blade bell and a box of bones and silverware that operate much like a hi-hat.  He pounds out rhythms with his feet and his twang-and-buzz guitar growls through a couple of old tube amps.  On top of all this is the ethereal edge of his overtone throat-singing.  This act is unique and not to be missed.

Poster by Jorel Dray
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Location

The Shitty Barn (View)
506 E Madison Street
Spring Green, WI 53588
United States

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Kid Friendly: Yes!
Dog Friendly: No

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Owner: Shitty Barn
On BPT Since: Jun 07, 2010
 
Sara Stellick
shittybarnsessions.com


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