The Makers Out plus Libby Decamp

108 N Detroit Ave,Tulsa OK 74103

12 November, 2022

Description

The Makers Out is helmed by Bell who serves as lead singer. Other notable talented Tulsans on stage include Kendal Osborne, Olivia McGraw, Sarah Maud, Matt Magerkurth, Nicholas Foster, and Stephen Schultz. The Makers Out debut album is set to release early 2023, and features Chris Combs and Aaron Boehler (Combsy), May Maxwell (Luke Combs) and Jake Lynn (Jason Boland). About Scott Bell: Scott Bell is a music producer, musician, composer, and photographer based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As a composer and musician, he has written and arranged scores for modern dance, and has toured the world performing and running sound with Julianna Barwick and Sigur Rós. For the past decade he has led the stage and technical departments for award-winning attractions including Tulsa's Guthrie Green and Gathering Place parks, putting on shows for symphonies, choirs, and other diverse artists for audiences by the thousands. Bell has produced multiple albums, podcasts, and shows for radio, including the forthcoming pilot season of “Live from Cain’s,” a Corporation for Public Broadcasting grant award-winner. He consults with multiple local music organizations on an ongoing basis, and administered the Play Tulsa Music Live Venue grant through the Tulsa Office of Film, Music, Arts & Culture, which distributed $350,000 in Tulsa County American Rescue Plan Act funding to local venues to help get Tulsa musicians back to work Libby Decamp Out from the quiet orchards of rural Michigan with a nomadic itch, Libby DeCamp has spent an adolescence in close companionship with bodies of music and literature of conscious yesteryear, among hinterlands of horses and history. Driven by a will to connect on a raw, human level, Libby makes lyrically-edged folk and roots-steeped music with a bewitching sense of urgency, and delivers with a honeyed vocal closeness that reaches listeners of all kinds. The soundscape is captivating- dark, visceral, and laced with western, blues, ragtime, and early rock and roll muses. Born from fervent ties to both "The Old , Weird America" and perhaps the "New, Weird America" and the collective voices that have sung their truths through the ages, DeCamp’s writing carries an unflinching intention to reflect the times and sing the humanity within them. Speared by her debut EP titled “Cross Sections,” following a number of years cutting teeth in various folk groups right out of high school) DeCamp has rounded her home state and toured cross-country with no time to waste, taking her show on the road extensively, both solo and with the two-brother rhythm section, Adam and Brandon Schreiber. Grammy award-winning producer Oz Fritz (Tom Waits, John Hammond) praises “DeCamp's ability as an artist to absorb and express a wide range of diverse influences, to convincingly invoke the struggles of the human condition..." and notes that "The authentic, weathered flavor of the music for each song provides the atmosphere and movement to draw the listener in to the intimacy of the stories.” Her work finds resonances from the dives and dancehalls of Nashville and New Orleans, to protest and mutual aid shows, to notable spotlights like by TedX, the Ken Burns "Country Music" series premiere, and continues to peak interest with spacial, provocative recordings and an entrancing live energy. "Westward and Faster", the songwriter's full-length debut (released May, 2021) is a daring, ten-song set of vicissitudes of American life in all its color- charged in times of critical social and political upheaval. The interplay of the plain-sung poetry with sprawling, spaghetti western-like guitar lines, pedal steel, and deep, live-cut grooves with upright bass and vintage drums conjures something entirely new, with homage to the old American musical lexicon. The opening song, "Asked for Water" (the title itself a nod to a traditional blues line) kicks off the tone of the record by laying the metaphor of the real-life unfolding of the Standing Rock and Flint Water crises right into personal perspective, beckoning a closer understanding and sense of connectedness with its verse, "And it all funnels down to just this one thing/ Is my safety what will separate me?" The vantage frequently shifts from worldly to otherworldly throughout the album, from lighthearted grooves to deeply meditative cuts with melodies and licks that linger long after the first listen. "Westward and Faster" is available on all major platforms.