John Moreland w/ Justin Bloss

Name: John Moreland w/ Justin Bloss
Start: 2024-07-19T20:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-07-19T23:00:00-05:00
Location: Slowdown

Schedule

Fri Jul 19 2024 at 08:00 pm to 11:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Slowdown | Omaha, NE

Doors at 7:00pm
Main Room
$25 Advance/$30 Day of Show
$40 Pitside East Reserved/Pitside West Reserved
All ages show. Check entry requirements at http://theslowdown.com/All-Ages and https://www.theslowdown.com/covid-19/
Pitside is seated with first come, first pick within the section.
About John Moreland
After an impressive 2010s run of albums that earned him a devoted fanbase, accolades from outlets like The New York Times, Fresh Air, and Pitchfork, and a place in the upper echelon of modern Americana singer-songwriters, John Moreland has already taken two unexpected turns this decade, both of which highlight his fierce artistic independence. First, he released a brilliant and sonically layered folk-electronica meditation on modern alienation, 2022’s Birds In The Ceiling, that took some of his fans by surprise. Then, after wrapping up a difficult tour behind that record in November 2022, he stopped working entirely. He took an entire year off from playing shows and didn’t use a smartphone for 6 months. “At the end of that year, I was just like ‘Nobody call me’. I needed to not do anything for a while and just process,” Moreland says. After nearly a decade in the limelight, constantly jostled by the expectations of his audience, the music industry, and anonymous strangers online, he carved out some time to rest, heal, and reflect for the first time.
The result of that unplugged year at home is 2024’s Visitor, a folk-rock record that is intimate,immediate, deeply thoughtful, and catchy as hell. Moreland recorded the album at his home in Bixby, Oklahoma, in only ten days, playing nearly every instrument himself (his wife Pearl Rachinsky sang on one song, and his longtime collaborator John Calvin Abney contributed a guitar solo), as well as engineering and mixing the album. “Simplicity and immediacy felt very important to the process,” he says.
About Justin Bloss
Singer/Songwriter living in Tulsa, OK. Touring Spring 2024 for the release of his second EP titled "Diaspora."
More info and music at theslowdown.com.