MORELAND & ARBUCKLE
SUNDAY, JUNE 27 & MONDAY, JUNE 28 • 9 PM
THE KING’S HEAD PUB
Club Pass and Wristband venue
Individual show ticket: $12 adv./$15 door
Guitarist Aaron Moreland and harpist/vocalist Dustin Arbuckle have spent nearly a decade exploring the edges of American roots music. In the process – with help from the driving beat of drummer Brad Horner – Moreland & Arbuckle have forged a relentless and haunting sound that merges Delta blues, folk, rock, traditional country, and soul.
The Moreland & Arbuckle journey began when the two met at an open-mic jam at a club in Wichita, Kansas, in 2001. Moreland had just moved into town a few months earlier from Emporia. A guitarist since age 15, his source material was admittedly diverse — Led Zeppelin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Black Sabbath, Charley Patton, Motley Crue — but he’d settled into traditional blues by the time he’d arrived in Wichita in his mid-20s.
Arbuckle, a native of Wichita, had been playing in a blues rock bar band at the time, but his truest sensibilities ran a couple of generations deeper, into the heart of the Mississippi Delta. He counts iconic figures like harpists Little Walter and Sonny Boy Williams and guitarist Son House among his most profound influences.
Moreland joined Arbuckle’s blues rock band for the last few months before the project dissolved. The two then started a quartet called the Kingsnakes, which Arbuckle describes as “electrified Mississippi blues mixed with a sludgy, jam-oriented rock thing.” A few bass players came and went in the years that followed, until Moreland and Arbuckle discovered they could lay down a solid groove on their own—with the help of Horner, who joined in the fall of 2006.
Moreland & Arbuckle crafted three self-produced albums in rapid-fire succession—Caney Valley Blues in 2005, Floyd’s Market in 2006 and 1861 in 2008. They made their debut on Telarc International with the February 2010 release of Flood. The album is the latest step in the trio’s never-ending quest to unearth the rawest and most honest elements of the American music tradition without getting caught up in definitions and categories that would only serve to limit the vision.
Pictures from the first weekend of the 2010 TD Winnipeg International Jazz Festival
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Guitarist Aaron Moreland and harpist/vocalist Dustin Arbuckle have spent nearly a decade exploring the edges of American roots music. In the process – with help from the driving beat of drummer Brad Horner – Moreland & Arbuckle have forged a relentless and haunting sound that merges Delta blues, folk, rock, traditional country, and soul.
If you are not familiar with Wichita's Moreland & Arbuckle, be sure to check out this great video!
Moreland & Arbuckle play the King's Head Pub on Sunday, June 27 and Monday, June 28.
