Party: Sons of Bill

Party: Sons of Bill

Doors: 8 p.m. || Show: 9 p.m.
18 and up || $10: Advance || $12: Day of Show

The Bourbon Theatre presents...

::: Sons Of Bill :::

“This is a record that takes me back to some of the creative heights we achieved in Wilco,” says producer Ken Coomer about Sons of Bill’s latest LP Love and Logic, due out on Thirty Tigers September 30, 2014. “I’m only interested in making records that are still going to be relevant ten years from now, and this is one of them. It’s unmistakably the real thing.”

This is an ambitious album for the three brothers Sam, Abe, and James Wilson, who share equal duty singing and writing throughout Love and Logic. The Virginia roots obviously run deep, with dreamy pedal steel, banjo, and three part harmonies that could have only been learned at church. But the record moves into enough layered pop productions and rock and roll bravado throughout to keep you guessing as to just who these boys are, and what they’ve been listening to.

It’s easy to say that Sons of Bill can sound more like Townes Van Zandt or early R.E.M. depending on the track, even moving into their own brand of down-home psychedelia that American Songwriter described as a “countrified Pink Floyd.” But the real achievement of Love and Logic is the songwriting, the Wilson brothers’ ability to craft literate and deeply introspective lyrics while still managing to deliver it all as a rock and roll band. It’s a soul-searcher’s soundtrack for an over-stimulated age. A roots rock album that stands out in 2014.

Sons of Bill became more than Charlottesville’s best kept secret with the release of the Sirens LP, a brash rock and roll record, which debuted on the Billboard top 200 and #12 on the Heatseekers chart in 2012. The band toured extensively on both sides of the Atlantic for a year and a half and gained some notoriety for their fiery live performances and road dog work ethic. But Love and Logic certainly marks a turning point for the band– a more sober, reflective, version of themselves– the sound of a band coming into its own.

Invited: Jesse Starita, Anthony Galvan, Jeff Tinnean, Neal Obermeyer, Hilary Stohs-Krause, Christina Hatcher, Marypat Heineman, Elyk Nitram, Cassandra Morton, Cessa Cantrell, Sam Larson, Chloe Sweet, Jeremy Buckley, Anna Kubick, Amy Hiltrud Frerichs, Nate Morris, Joshua Redwine, Rachel Lee, Daniel Eric Peterson, Craig Reier, Rick Alloway, Ethan Joseph Klitzke, Beca Voelker, Audrey Farnham, Alex Daly, Adam Anderson, Liz Zetterman, Molly Lutz, Paul Jarrett, Megan Spain, Dustin Duff Hunke, Megan Jackson, David Ozinga, Jordan Ellis, Jake Reisdorff, Jake Steele, Emily Lux, Mark Young, Max Eichner Holmquist, Jessica Houchen, George White, Jake Gardner, Brittni Sprouls, Safairra Hutchison, Diamond Dave Arredondo, Laura Duffield Weiss, Jonathan Egan, Andrew Malashock, Cammi Howard, Trey Abel, Adelheide L. Thompsalin, Rick Carson, Benton Alexander, Liz Rosholm, Justine Carmer, Jordan Joseph Klasek, Morgan Beach, Lara Cox, Spencer Munson, Rachel Black, Lyndie Bug, Samuel Segrist, Jessica Clem, Ross Kunze, Regina Flowers, Michael Flowers, Jon Dell, Alexander Munson, Amber C. Nore, Shaun McCabe, Ashley Fuller, Kari Munsch, Alice Ayres, Meike Eilert, Mat Rehwaldt, Maxwell Morrissey, Jordan Elfers, Kevin C. Schinck, Gunter Voelker, Kristoffer Williams, Nixy Nickel, Jake Brandt, Joshua Hansen, Matt Mejstrik, Curtis Tiedt, Michelle Roberts, Keith Rodger, Anna Marie Mattingly, Celena Renae Malmkar, Heath Macomber, Jacob Zlomke, Leaves Brown, Katie Jane, Bethany Ann, Chanty Stovall, Elizabeth Huegel Hitt, Aldo Diaz, Nathan Barr, Austin Elsberry, Cole Backwoods Keeton show more »