Matthew R. Sayles & Wyatt Thomson @ Trempealeau Hotel
Schedule
Fri Feb 20 2026 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
Trempealeau Hotel, Restaurant and Saloon | Trempealeau, WI
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Heading down to the iconic Trempealeau Hotel on the banks of the Mississippi for a Saturday Night duo show with Wyatt Thomson! Come enjoy a pint and some fine tunes and excellent food. "Clever songwriting alongside rearranged classics-- a throwback style that knows good, old-fashioned storytelling...yet is utterly unpretentious about modernity.”
--The Source, Bend, Oregon
Matthew R. Sayles is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and founder of Philville Records, an independent label he formed in 2000 in Marquette, Michigan (you might also recognize him as the eccentric frontman of Eau Claire's, the Driftless Revelers).
Sayles has toured nationally and internationally, and has had the honor of performing with country, bluegrass, and western swing legends like Merle Haggard, Dwight Yoakam, Asleep at the Wheel, Larry Sparks, Doyle Lawson, the Duhks, Uncle Earl, Hot Club of Cowtown, members of Bob Dylan's "Rolling Thunder Review" and a long list of other highly talented regional and national roots music performers.
Sayles's solo performances bounce from up tempo electric guitar-picked roots country, early rock & roll, roadhouse blues, Americana ballads, and bluegrass, to north African-inspired instrumental pieces on five string banjo and south American-infused arrangements on the Andean ten-stringed Charango.
An accomplished songwriter, story-teller, and performer with a deep interest in the history of American roots music, Sayles's live performances evoke a modern interpretation of the coffee house shows of the 1950s and 60s, while still keeping one foot grounded in the beer halls, honky-tonks, and night clubs of the recent past and present.
https://www.philvillerecords.com/matthew-r-sayles-press-kit
Wyatt Thomson Bio:
Wyatt Thomson possesses a voice that echos the soundscapes of the dance halls, supper clubs, and road houses that still litter the landscape of his home in the Chippewa Valley of Wisconsin.
Citing Tom Waits as his biggest influence, it's safe to say that Thomson (Like Waits) seems to have skipped right over decades of music that might have otherwise changed his sound for the worst.
One of Thomson's biggest appeals is that he sounds like an artist transported from the 1950's honky tonks of the Midwest, and dropped off into the second decade of the 21st century unscathed by the worst aspects of pop country, pop music, and an industry forever changed by technology.
Not unlike a character from a Roger Miller song, Thomson has the bona fides of working pawn shops, odd jobs, and scraping by in the rust belt landscape of NW Wisconsin. As a result, he's gained the street wise and cynical wisdom that is earned young from such a life.
The world may press onward with its insane pace, but Thomson ambles along with a casual confidence and story telling tales that feel like they're ripped from old paperbacks in a truck stop, or found in some lost postwar beatnik manuscript.
https://www.philvillerecords.com/wyattthomson
Sad Records & Country Tunes Voted #2 Best New Album 2024:
https://volumeone.org/bestof/534/questions/15199-best-local-album-released-in-the-last-year
Voted Best New Artist in the Chippewa Valley 2023:
https://volumeone.org/bestof/472/questions/12385-best-new-band
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Trempealeau Hotel, Restaurant and Saloon, 11332 Main St,Trempealeau, Wisconsin, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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