About this Event
“Beautiful and inspiring. Kindred spirits”Mike Watt, Minutemen, Iggy Pop and the Stooges
“It's Americana in the sense that America is a place of menace, hybrid vigor and unending strangeness.”- Robert Duncan, CREEM Magazine
"In this day and age of formulaic songwriting, Drunken Prayer has charted its own course.”- Morty Wiggins, Bill Graham Presents, A&M Records
“5 ARTISTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT” - Relix Magazine
“If it were possible for Tom Waits, The Band and Syd Barrett to sire a musical love child, it might sound a lot like Drunken Prayer.”- Coachella Valley Weekly
“The dissonant ambiguity is the point.” - Americana Highways
“‘Is this country?’ I say yes – in the same way that The Silver Jews can be considered ‘country’, or Butthole Surfers can be considered ‘art rock’”- Wild American Radio
“...the real deal...a barking ringleader with chops between Tom Waits and the Butthole Surfers’ Gibby Haynes”- Willamette Week, Portland, OR
“...one part the Band, one part Tonight’s The Night and several parts sinner’s remorse...Bad Seeds-in-New Orleans noir...”- Blurt Magazine
Drunken Prayer transcends the bounds of Americana music. Morgan Geer writes songs that could emerge from a highly blissed-out biker bar or a swampy ashram.
Drunken Prayer plays a kind of holy blues. The new record, Thy Burdens, is an homage to the fiery music of the church. Morgan learned most of these hymns from his great-grandmother in Mobile, AL. Partnering with Drive-By Truckers’ Bobby Matt Patton, the pair recorded this album in North Mississippi with some of their friends from Appalachia and the Delta.
Wearing a white bespangled jumpsuit his mother made for him, Morgan won a 4th grade talent show singing Elvis’ “Hound Dog”. After school he was threatened with a thumping by a neighborhood thug if he didn’t “sing Elvis!”. This was Morgan Geer’s introduction to the music industry.
“Drunken Prayer” was born after a chance conversation in Northern California with Tom Waits. After that Morgan Geer was off into the mission field of Portland, OR to play unrestrained church music to bikers at the Queen of Hearts Tavern.
Drunken Prayer is now a stalwart of the burgeoning scene in Asheville, NC., and Morgan Geer has recorded and toured with some of the cornerstones of what we call modern Americana music.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Martin's Downtown, 214 State Street, Jackson, United States
USD 12.51
