Live at Red Clay Theatre in downtown Duluth
About Truth & Salvage Co.
Afraid of destruction? Doom got ya down? Flirting with disaster on the dark side of town? Truth & Salvage Co. is just the band to keep the bad times from getting you down. Something resilient and genuinely hopeful reaches out from this West Coast-dappled, Southern-tinged outfit. They are steadfast purveyors of a silver lining for gray-cloud days whose music is a beautiful rag ‘n’ bone buffet of unshakeable rock, classic country strains, unfiltered blues, and folk’s bonhomie, accented with winningly human harmonies – i.e. great American music in the heartiest melting pot tradition of the Byrds and the Band, substantive fare with radio-ready pop instincts that coalesces into some of the most readily enjoyable, soul-nourishing music being made today.
“I really do feel like we’ve been on the road trying to spread truth in what we do and what we believe,” says keyboardist Adam Grace. “Our music doesn’t conform to what society is saying is cool right at this second, but it’s what we do and who we are. We’ve had to learn to salvage every little thing in everything we do to keep this going. There are times you think it’s going to hit bottom and then one of the guys salvages something from somewhere and makes it stick and work. So the name goes really deep. It was a fan who chose it but when we accepted that name I don’t think we had any idea what it would mean to us four or five years later.”
This workingman’s sextet–Scott Kinnebrew (vocals, lead guitar), Tim Jones (vocals, guitar), Bill “Smitty” Smith (vocals, drums), Walker Young (vocals, piano), Dean Moore (bass, backup vocals) and Grace–began their steady evolution in 2005 when its various members moved to Los Angeles to build their rock ‘n’ roll dreams. Under the insightful tutelage of the Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson, Truth & Salvage Co. produced their 2010 self-titled debut and proceeded to spend the next three years hard-touring, opening for the Crowes and the Avett Brothers, as well as establishing themselves as a reliably great headliner in their own right. The sweat and stage-won knowledge of these years is vibrantly evident on their sophomore release, Pick Me Up (arriving July 23 via Megaforce/Sony RED), an album self-produced in the sanctuary of Asheville, NC’s Echo Mountain studio and mixed by Band of Horses’ Bill Reynolds. The 13 included songs lie rich with lived-in wisdom and tuneful dexterity, the harmonies redolent of long hours singing together on stages and in hotel rooms late at night.
Earning positive ink from Rolling Stone, USA Today, and the British music press, they've also played major stages like Bonnaroo, Red Rocks, San Francisco’s Fillmore and Nashville’s legendary Ryman Auditorium. The real truth of this band lies in their unceasing dedication to honest, passionately delivered music on whatever stage or studio they’re currently in, be it a tiny club or a massive amphitheatre, a cramped public radio station studio or a well-appointed recording facility. What is true in one sphere is true in all of them, and that truth is six endearingly sincere, incredibly talented guys who want nothing more than to inform and uplift through song.
“The sum of our parts makes a greater whole. We’ve been doing this endeavor in this group and lots of others before it for a long time, and this is the life path we’ve always been crafting,” says Scott. “The salvage part of our name is about salvaging all the good parts of the music we’ve made and harnessing that to all the strength and knowledge we’ve accumulated over all these years we’ve been playing music. We’re here and we’re doing this, trying to drop all egos and salvage all the love and good times we can in songs.”
About Friends of Lola
“Holy cow…everytime I hear Friends of Lola, they get…awesome…er.” –Tammy Ragusa, Country Weekly Magazine.
Nashville born band, Friends of Lola, may not look or sound new to the country music scene, but they are. The three faces of the trio are siblings Houston Wages and Cyrena Wages of Memphis, TN, and Gabe Rabben of Laguna Beach, CA. “Things happened for us so quickly but so organically...we were all a little surprised at how obvious our musical chemistry together is,” -Cyrena. FOL’s self-produced debut EP, “Letters from Tennessee,” was released in February 2013 and is comprised of six songs the three wrote together in their tiny Nashville apartment in the fall of 2012.
Before the birth of FOL, Houston was in Los Angeles pursuing an acting career, Cyrena was beginning her senior year at Belmont University, and Gabe was touring as the drummer for Righteous Brother, Bill Medley. Worlds collided when Cyrena and Gabe went on a blind date and began dating in Spring 2012. Houston and Gabe met for the first time in Memphis a few months later, wrote their first song one night in about ten minutes, and therefore the rest history. Houston packed his bags, left Cali, and joined the other two Music City.
“We think there’s something special about getting to tap into the country industry at this exact time. It’s really evolving and inviting fresh, risky, interesting ideas, and we’re excited to be a part of that.”- FOL. With influences stemming from as far as The Eagles to Bonnie Raitt to Stevie Wonder to Hank Williams SR, it’s no secret these old souled kids were raised on old school musical influences. Their songs find a perfect balance between poetic yet translucent lyrics, with melodies that drive ya mad all day. As for now, the FOL’ers keep their eye on the prize and try to write “good songs that make people feel something.” Stay tuned for what’s to come of Wages, Wages, and Rabben.
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