http://virb.com/thegentleguest WE ARE BOUND TO SAVE SOME SOULS TONIGHT out now on AMBLE DOWN RECORDS. ORDER | iTUNES | AMAZON
The Gentle Guest is Eric Rykal and friends. Their music is bottled in Eau Claire, WI, for the most part, near the Chippewa River in the living room of a little blue house. Their sound can be found somewhere between the Great Depression and 2008. After the release of The Gentle Guest's first EP no less than a year ago, and six-months of stagnant creativity, Rykal, the individual, instigator, and inspiration behind the project, spent a night in an empty bar in St. Paul, MN, witnessed a performance by a wayward Portland band, became inspired, and suddenly felt the need to write this album. We Are Bound To Save Some Souls Tonight is the band's debut full-length and was written by Rykal on a rainy weekend, this past April; it was recorded during the first few weeks of summer with the help of a slew of Amble Down regulars, and has been performed all over town and throughout the region since its conception. The album's ten tracks give off an Americana feel with a bit of rustic blues mixed in, all containing the folklore of overridden hobo tales in their story-telling and theatrical lyrics. "Some of the most innovatively riveting material I have heard so far this year."
- Obscure Sound (09.08) "There's brassy horns, a get-up-and-clap rhythm, and the general feeling that this music is made for you to move to." - The Sound on Sound (09.08) "A promising return that sings and stomps through its stories of sin, salvation, and whiskey stills."
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