JACKSON HOLE, WYO – As Portland, Oregon experimental rock/Americana band Blitzen Trapper approaches the 10th anniversary of its breakthrough album, Furr, the five-piece will make its Jackson return at 6 p.m. Sunday at Snow King Ball Field for JacksonHoleLive. Brother Wolf opens the show. Admission is $5/adults and free for 17 and under.
Blitzen Trapper has an impressive nine-album discography. Often splicing modern-yet-lo-fi production with plenty of accessible Neil Young-esque storytelling songs, the band can either rock your socks or draw you into its folksy, artsy roots. Last year’s release, Wild & Reckless, finds songwriter Eric Earley and his crew continuing a stride that strays from the early career experiments in favor of focused melodic structures that have become Earley trademarks. The set also reflects the band’s recent theatrical rock opera show that touches on love, science fiction and the golden era of Portland. In the end, the live audience is rewarded with a band that has been together since 2000, and that’s rare these days.
Brother Wolf is the project of One Ton Pig frontman Michael Batdorf. The “rock power quartet” brings a gritty sound that also blends folk and blues, a fitting foundation for one of Jackson’s most prolific songwriters that sites Neil Young and James McMurtry as influences.
More information and a summer schedule of shows can be found at JacksonHoleLive.org.
