John Calvin Abney - Bentonville, AR - House Show

12521 Bullock Road,Bentonville AR 72712

09 August, 2022

Description

Where: This acoustic performance will be held at a private residence in western Bentonville, but tickets are available to anyone and we would love to have you join us for this great night of music. Physical address is 12521 Bullock Rd. Bentonville, AR 72712 and is easily accessible from all areas via I49 North or South at the HWY 72 Centerton exit or from Bentonville via Hwy 72 West. About the Show: Music will start at 7PM and generally conclude no later than 10PM. Guests can arrive as soon as 5PM. Weather permitting we will plan for the show to be held outside on the spacious lawn and patio and guests should plan to bring a folding/lawn chair if desired. In the event shows need to be moved indoors there is plenty of space to accommodate everyone. Shows will be BYOB so plan accordingly. It's a casual event where the focus is the music. 100% of the ticket costs (minus ticketing fees) go directly to the artists(s)! About John Calvin Abney: Though it was recorded in an assortment of rooms and hotels across California, Nevada, Texas, and Oklahoma, Tourist feels remarkably durable. Abney sees it as a companion piece to his 2020 Familiar Ground LP but there’s a lightness here that was less pronounced previously, a kind of woozy solace you find in travel, in embracing new beginnings. Using his personal portable studio, this is no troubadour with a busted guitar story, instead, Abney grows his songs, weaving drum machines, samplers, and synthesizers into the songs, fleshing the recordings out with sole collaborator John Moreland, who performed his parts and mixed from his own studio, using the internet to create the album over even longer distances. Informed by much of the music Abney was listening to at the time (from the Japanese pop maestro Haruomi Hosono, Happy End, and Elton John through indie rock band The War On Drugs), Tourist was equally, definitively shaped by the landscape itself, specifically, the sights and sounds of the redwood forests and cold coasts of Northern California where he spent his time during a harrowing fire season, idling in the countryside, accompanied by Steinbeck’s rich travel memoir Travels With Charley and a collection of Hemingway short stories, both given to him by friends in Oklahoma. The western wildfires burning ominously through the dusk and dawn crept their way into the sounds and stories like the smoke did through his windows and doors.