The Delines
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Friday, October 21, 2022, 8 pm
Polaris Hall
Humboldt (Portland)
This is an in-person event
$15
Music fans who like Spaghetti Westerns should check out retro country-soul group the Delines, a seven-piece band that's borderline super group thanks to the name recognition of all of its members: author and musician Willy Vlautin (of Richmond Fontaine), vocalist Amy Boone, pedal steel player Tucker Jackson (also in the Minus 5), Cory Gray on keyboard / trumpet, percussionist Sean Oldham, bassist Freddy Trujillo, and baritone guitarist John Askew. You see what I mean. Their third album, the Sea Drift, which dropped in February, centers on Willy Vlautin’s and singer Amy Boone’s mutual love of the Gulf Coast. It showcases Vlautin’s literary songwriting style on songs like the somber “Surfers in Twilight,” and “Kid Codeine,” in which Boone sings about a “cool and easy” woman who never gets mad: “People call her Kid Codeine/ owns a lounge off Lombard Street/ Stuck by her boxer even when he went punch drunk and broke / hеard just buying milk she wears a full-length fakе fur coat.”
by Jenni Moore
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