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Anders Osborne w/ special guest Oliver John-Rodgers with Oliver John-Rodgers

Hartford

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Sun, August 14, 2016
Hartford, CT
Show: 7:30 PM

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Member Presale: 5/16/16 06 AM
Public Onsale: 5/19/16 06 AM

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GENRE

Blues Rock / Roots
Anders Osborne w/ special guest Oliver John-Rodgers

Grammy Award-Winning Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist Anders Osborn comes to Infinity Hall Hartford!!  The Swedish-born, longtime New Orleans resident is among the most original and visionary musicians performing today, and performed with everyone from Keb’ Mo and Johnny Lang, to Phil Lesh and Tim McGraw. 

Anders Osborne

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Artist Bio

Between the potency of his richly detailed songwriting, his intensely emotional, soulful vocals and his piercing, expert guitar work, New Orleans’ Anders Osborne is a true musical treasure. He is among the most original and visionary musicians writing and performing today. Guitar Player calls him “the poet laureate of Louisiana’s fertile roots music scene.” New Orleans' Gambit Weekly has honored Osborne as the Entertainer Of The Year. OffBeat named him the Crescent City’s Best Guitarist for the third year in a row, and the Best Songwriter for the second straight year. Osborne also won Song Of The Year for his composition, Louisiana Gold.

Osborne’s latest released Flower Box, his second full-length album of 2016, recorded in his hometown of New Orleans late last year, Flowerbox is a heavier, guitar-driven follow-up to the acclaimed Spacedust & Ocean Views. 

"I love the way this record comes out stout and determined right out the gate, a four-piece rock & roll band making beautiful and conquering noise," says Osborne.   "The producer, Mark Howard, has a way of making you play in the moment and being confident.  His sounds and engineering style is that of classic records, with his own special sauce of 'haunting' on top of it.  The musicians on here are undoubtedly some of my absolute favorites in the world, both as players and as people. Their contributions are invaluable.  Scott Metzger, Brady Blade, Carl Dufrene, Chad Cromwell, Marc Broussard, David LaBruyere, Rob McNelley & Justin Tocket. Bad boys!  I've been wanting to make this record for several years and I am stoked it's finally here." 

A powerful live performer, the musician has won over fans through non-stop touring as well as a heralded collaboration with the North Mississippi Allstars & Southern Soul Assembly.

Jambands.com said, "Osborne finds a striking balance of muscle and grace that allows for the smaller moments of quiet to be just as resounding as the sonic booms."  And USA Todayhas praised his music, saying "The relentless approach amplifies the anguished lyrics, which appear to be about the death of a loved one or a relationship torn asunder or perhaps a spiritual crisis."  In a review of Spacedust & Ocean Views, Boulder Weekly said the album "finds the guitarist in a (largely) reflective mood, an extended meditation on place and moments in time, memory, passages through and exits from paragraphs in the non-fiction docudrama of life.  Through languid, gently formed figures, Osborne coaxes odes of gratitude and compelling imagery in what seems a little like a travelogue — like watching his kid chasing seabirds on the beach..."

Osborne has earned hordes of new fans. He has toured virtually non-stop, either with his own band, as a solo artist, or as a guest with his countless musical admirers, including Toots and The Maytals, Stanton Moore, Derek Trucks, Warren Haynes, Keb Mo, The Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh, Jackie Greene and Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe. He’s produced and played on critically acclaimed albums by Tab Benoit, Johnny Sansone and Mike Zito.

Oliver John-Rodgers

OJR

 “I grew up down round the Baby Blue Ridge,” sings Oliver John-Rodgers, more commonly known as OJR, on the title track of his second full-length album, Human Style (2012)The grandson of country music and bluegrass fanatics on both sides of his family, OJR, born in Virginia in 1992, was raised more directly on the angst-y, grunge dynamics of Nirvana, Cracker, and The Pixies.  Following four whirlwind years of soul-searching and adventure in the concrete jungles of New York, OJR relocated to Nashville in 2014. 

 And Nashville noticed. “Rowdy and energetic,” comments Philip Obenschain (No Country for New Nashville, July 2015), “the talented performer certainly flexes an affinity for country and folk he’s adopted as part of his sonic palette, but his sound truly lands more in the rock realm, with fuzzy, indie, and psychedelic sensibilities, and earnest, electrifying songwriting.” 

This discontentedly old-fashioned millennial is perfectly content with calling it like he sees it. “I don’t wanna be a part of this selfie situation,” begins the second verse of “My Generation,” 

the begrudgingly bouncy, bubblegum-pop single off Nashville Demos, OJR’s third full-length release (2015). “Aw,” he goes on bemoaning, “but I’m a part of the equation, and I don’t wish to be.” There’s restlessness in his songs, a supreme desire for more—more than, one might imagine, whatever the Good Book promises, or the Human Condition allows, or the American Dream offers. 

While High School and Human Style, his first two LPs, respectively, reside exclusively in a folk-friendly, singer-songwriter neighborhood (à la Bright Eyes/Ryan Adams/Elliot Smith), 2015’s Nashville Demos saw OJR exploring sonic terrain as diverse as grunge (“Numb”), outlaw country (“Runnin’ from the Law”), doowop (“In Love with a Bowler”), sensual 70s groove (“Lips on Fire”), and garage rock (“Front-Door Man”).  Recorded in various bedrooms all over the world—New York, London, Paris, Nashville, and Virginia--these "demos" certainly blur the line between home recordings and a proper, studio-grade album. That's because while OJR, ever the perfectionist, self-produced all ten tracks with Apple's free, built-in software, GarageBand. It's clear he devoted the time and attention to the detail one expects from a professionally tracked studio album than from anything made in a bedroom on a MacBook. 

 To call this album a collection of demos is perhaps OJR's way of expressing his dualist nature, his yin and his yang: he's an artist and producer, a singer and songwriter, a Virginia boy and a cosmopolitan. He's the Acid and the Cowboy. 


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