Clock-Out Lounge Presents:Slim Cessnas Auto Club withThe Bad ThingsMichael Ray and the Plastic Sheets Saturday, Oct. 19th 8:30 PM 21+$17adv/$20 doshttp://scacunincorporated.com/scac/Slim Cessnas Auto Club play country gospel with a fervor that seems to emanate from a punk pulpit. The groups leader, Slim Cessna, a tall, lanky gentleman with a gold tooth and large white hat, sings in a high-lonesome voice and yodel, and preaches with conviction. (Sample sentiment from Last Song About Satan: So I said, Lucifer you piece of sh*t/I should kick your ass right where you sit…/My mother cries because of you.) The group released its self-titled debut in 1995.https://thebadthings.bandcamp.com/https://michaelrayandtheplasticsheets.bandcamp.com/
Clock-Out Lounge Presents:Willy Tea Taylor & The FellershipPlus Taylor Kingman (TK & The Holy Know-Nothings) Thursday May 23rd8:30 doors 21+ $17adv/$20 doshttps://willyteataylor.com/https://taylorkingman.bandcamp.com/album/hollow-soundThere is no question that Willy Tea Taylors life as a singer/songwriter was predetermined his role realized the moment he wrote his first song. His inspirations drawn from two separate wells; Living the life of a cattlemans kid and experiencing true visionaries music like Greg Brown, John Hartford, and Guy Clark. The image of Guy Clark and friends sitting around the kitchen table loaded with ashtrays full of butts, half-smoked cigarettes, food, and booze on one Christmas Eve in 1975 burned into Taylorss soul. Those guys, swapping songs without pretense, lit Willy Teas fire. And ever since, its led purpose with passion finding a hang by curating relationships through musical friendships that get him closer to his own Clark style kitchen table.From his early days co-fronting The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit, to singing solo in countless cowboy bars, to pitching countless wiffle ball games, Willy Tea has never lost the vision. Now Willy Tea Taylor has taken his vision of the hero hang on the road. and his talented traveling band The Fellership is made up of his fantastically talented buds who play Willys songs with a brand of reckless abandon and utter humility that spits in the face of pretense. The way The Fellership plays Wills songs is the way they demand to be played and, in their short time together, they have been awe-ing every audience lucky enough to see them.
Clock-Out Lounge Presents: Willy Tea Taylorw/ special guest Kris Stuart Sunday Jan 28th 8pm doors 21+$15adv/$18 dos https://willyteataylor.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-western-hangoverThere is no question that Willy Tea Taylors life as a singer/songwriter was predetermined his role realized the moment he wrote his first song. His inspirations drawn from two separate wells; Living the life of a cattlemans kid and experiencing true visionaries music like Greg Brown, John Hartford, and Guy Clark. The image of Guy Clark and friends sitting around the kitchen table loaded with ashtrays full of butts, half-smoked cigarettes, food, and booze on one Christmas Eve in 1975 burned into Taylors soul. Those guys, swapping songs without pretense, lit Willy Teas fire. And ever since, its led purpose with passion finding a hang by curating relationships through musical friendships that get him closer to his own Clark style kitchen table.From his early days co-fronting The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit, to singing solo in countless cowboy bars, to pitching countless wiffle ball games, Willy Tea has never lost the vision. Now Willy Tea Taylor has taken his vision of the hero hang on the road. and his talented traveling band The Fellership is made up of his fantastically talented buds who play Willys songs with a brand of reckless abandon and utter humility that spits in the face of pretense. The way The Fellership plays Wills songs is the way they demand to be played and, in their short time together, they have been awe-ing every audience lucky enough to see them.
Clock-Out Lounge Presents: Shawn and Davids going away party!w/ The Beer Cozies, Joe Ravenscroft and DJ Leaf HoundSat Aug 12thDoors 8pmDJ starts 8pm-bands at 9pm$5adv/$10doshttps://beercozies.bandcamp.com/
Saturday 04/29/23The Crocodile Presents:DOUGIE POOLEw/ Westmoreland$16 ADV / $18 DOS9:00pm doors / 9:30pm show21+https://www.dougiepoole.com/https://dougiepoole.bandcamp.com/A country songwriter from Brooklyns indie underground, Dougie Poole blurs the lines between genre and generation on his third solo album, The Rainbow Wheel of Death. Rooted in sharp songwriting, Pooles golden baritone, and the organic sounds of a live-in-the-studio band, its a classic-sounding record for the modern world, stocked with songs that make room for everything from old-school synthesizers to contemporary storytelling.The Rainbow Wheel of Deaths title nods to the colorful pinwheel that appears onscreen whenever a computers application stalls. For Poole who found himself working as a freelance computer programmer once the pandemic brought his touring schedule to a temporary halt in 2020 its also a reference to the holding pattern thats left much of society feeling stuck, unable to move ahead in an uncertain world. That feeling was pervasive when he began writing these nine songs, finishing the first handful of tracks in his New York City bedroom and wrapping up the songwriting process in the recording studio itself, this time surrounded by a band of collaborators and instrumentalists.Once hailed as the patron saint of millennial malaise for his sardonic wit and topical, tongue-in-cheek songwriting, Poole broadens his reach here. He fine-tunes his genre-bending approach to country music, too, with The Rainbow Wheel of Death reaching far beyond the genres boundaries for new sounds and unexpected textures. High School Gym builds a bridge between 2020s lo-fi textures and 1980s pop vibes, while Must Be In Here Somewhere whose narrator sits at a lap top, searching through every server burning in North Carolina for a digital souvenir of a long-lost relationship mixes modern concerns with classic country instrumentation. If records like 2017s Wideass Highway and 2020s breakthrough release The Freelancers Blues told stories about uninspired Millennials languishing in dead-end jobs and no-good relationships, then The Rainbow Wheel of Death focuses on more universal issues like mortality, love, and the passing of the time.https://westmoreland.bandcamp.com/Latino Ballroom is the debut LP from Westmoreland, the project of Seattle-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Zach Alva. Recorded in a week in Silsbee, TX, the album deals with the passing of his father and examines his feelings surrounding grief, family, and love. The records sound is steeped in a wide range of cultural influences, including folk-rock, jazz, and country, with the title referencing his experience as an Indigenous and Latino artist creating in what are predominantly white music spaces. By exploring these themes, Zach has produced an incredibly personal yet complex album.
Clock-Out Lounge Presents:Santa Pocow/ special guests Chris King & The GutterballsRichard SimeonoffAugust 4th 8:30 doors 21+$17adv/$20 dos https://santapocoband.com/If youre in a saloon right now, chances are you could be hearing the music of Santa Poco. The stuff is in the air, in the water, part of the condensation on your bottle of beer, its that elemental. Its like common sense. Slide guitars and the clack of boots on the floor slats. Its the jangly acoustic with the pitter-patter snare. The bend of the electric solo, the voice coming in again above it all. Its the music of Cowboy Songs, the latest offering from the Pacific-Northwest group. Basking in the bands music, its clear: they have a sumptuous energy, the kind that gets you to dance on your heels but lead with your hips. The band is a veritable jukebox, your favorite Roadhouse radio station as you speed that extra hour through the bleary night highway. The bands new 11-track record accompanies like a K-9 friend might, bandana around its furry neck, jaw resting in its front paws, yet ready for action. Santa Poco recorded its latest album in log cabin in snow-capped Leavenworth, Washington, and finished the record in a log cabin in rural Roslyn. It was mixed and mastered by legendary Emerald City music man, Ed Brooks. But the thing about music that floats in the air like cherished common knowledge is that each track in the collection is savory. Its all smooth sarsaparilla and shots of top-shelf whiskeyincluding the bands anthemic, Something About The Whiskey . The LPs titular opener enlivens in a way that makes you tip your cap and show your pearly whites. Throughout Cowboy Songs, Santa Poco employs an expert sense of subtlety and musicianship, offering touches of keys, organ, harmonica and even violin. All the while keeping a sense of tradition.https://www.chriskingandthegutterballs.com/about
