Friday, January 26, 7 p.m.
Triple Crown Whiskey Bar & Raccoon Motel, 304 East Third Street, Davenport IA
Singer/songwriter John Paul Roney performs a January 26 Moeller Nights concert alongside Andrew Fraser and Aaron Simon in the musicians' experimental-folk outfit Boom Forest, a group whose recent album Post Knight Errant led MXDWN.com to write that Roney's “career should no doubt be watched with great interest,” adding, “No matter which direction Roney chooses to bring the listener, it’s impossible to be disappointed.”
Born in Wisconsin and a resident of Nashville, Roney's musical education began in his small-town church, where he taught himself to harmonize to hymns so he could sing alongside his family. In 2007, he formed the Madison-based band We the Living with drummer Benjamin Schaefer, releasing three albums and performing at festivals including South by Southwest, the Cornestone Musical, and Milwaukee's Summerfest before disbanding in 2009. Romey then spent the entirely of 2010 allowing himself access only to the objects and technologies people had access to in the 1960s, a journey that led to his creation of Boom Forest and its debut Post Knight Errand, which BoomForest.com describes as “a meditation on what it means to be human in an increasingly automated world.”
As Moeller Nights' and Daytrotter founder Sean Moeller writes: “The music of Nashville-via-Wisconsin's John Paul Roney, as Boom Forest, has the markings of a man who delights in the pariculars of the expansive body of work that people and the land that they've come across have developed. He dives into these voluminous shelves, as if it were all written, poring over what's amounted to little, or what's amounted to a lot. It's taking what he's found to be mostly true about himself and how he's been raised – by the people who have raised him – and letting it ring in softly, so as to discover the nuance in the gait and the curls.”
Boom Forest performs at the Triple Crown Whiskey Bar & Raccoon Motel with an opening set by Dark Navy, tickets to the 7 p.m. concert are $8, and more information is available by visiting MoellerNights.com.
