Hayden Pedigo w/ Jens Kuross

Doors 7PM/Show 8PM

Hayden Pedigo: man, myth, master of disguise; un-picker, finger-picker, absurdist, perfectionist. An innovator of the instrumental genre, challenger of the stereotypical, son of a truck-stop preacher. His new album, ‘I’ll Be Waving As You Drive Away’ is, Hayden reflects, not a straightforward solo guitar record, but in a sense “a micro-dose psychedelic album.” Unafraid to push the parameters of American primitive, the walls of the album’s world are fuzzed-up and glimmering. Pedigo’s trademark, highly skilled guitar compositions, more intricate than ever, are augmented by influences he’s never been able to achieve on previous records, drawing strongly from the uncanny psychedelia of larger-than-life culture in the American South, so often bigger, stranger, more unnerving than fiction. Throughout ‘I’ll Be Waving As You Drive Away’, moments of genre-defying, unapologetic exuberance are carefully balanced with delicacy and intricacy.

If ever there was a line that could be drawn between the haunting, ethereal melancholy of Thom Yorke, and the poetic lyricism and inviting nostalgia of Tom Waits, then Jens Kuross could be the artist who walks it. Defying the precariousness of that position, Jens’ music falls into neither the trap of self-indulgent mellow-drama, or into tired, Americana sentimentality, but rather, deftly balances evocative lyrics and affecting harmonies with a stirring sincerity and command of traditional songwriting that provide the perfect backdrop for his gentle and weighty croon.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Swallow Hill Music - Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Avenue, Denver, United States