Name: Erik Koskinen Band w/ CaroMia and Rahm at The Grey Eagle
Start: 2024-06-27T20:00:00-04:00
Location: The Grey Eagle

$Erik Koskinen Band w\/ CaroMia and Rahm at The Grey Eagle$

Erik Koskinen Band
with CAROMIA AND RAHM
Doors: 7:00 PM
Show: 8:00 PM
DAY OF: $18.00
ADVANCED: $15.00
PREMIUM SEATING: $20.00
ALL AGES
SEATED SHOW
LIMITED NUMBER OF PREMIUM SEATING TICKETS AVAILABLE
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ERIK KOSKINEN BAND
He's a lights-out guitar (player) and his band is as good as any band in the country. But he's also a top-shelf writer, with a blade-sharp wit and love songs so real and tender they seem to transcend the form. I know of few writers whose relationship to their own landscape, in this case the rural north, is so elemental, and so integral. His songs feel like weather.
People know him in Minnesota, where most bar bands seem to cover at least one of his songs, but otherwise he's still one of the best kept secrets in the country. He sings about an America that doesn't get much play anymore, the one where the people at the bottom can't quite get ahead, and where working people aren't cartoon props in a culture war, but shrewd human beings living hard lives, and hard loves. His songs have the diamond-hard clarity and simplicity of Tom Petty, and like Petty, Koskinen can sing a literal statement without metaphor or ornament, and make it move like poetry.
The spiritual hunger in rock 'n' roll that came from blues and gospel is still a hunger in these songs, and if you listen hard, you can hear that lean coyote voice - wary, feral, full of fierce delight - lighting up the wee hours from somewhere out on the prairie.
~J Foucault
Rahm & CaroMia had a close musical friendship for many years through the lens of R&B, Funk and Neo-Soul before discovering a shared deep love of singer/songwriter music. This is a side of them seldom seen outside late nights on front porches. Over the last handful of years, they have crafted their own homage to their roots- Lush harmonies carried across dreamy soundscapes, songwriting that shines in this simplicity.