Jeremy Ferrara, Nate Budroe and Slow Motion Cowboys

Thu Jul 14 2022 at 07:30 pm to 10:30 pm

Amado's | San Francisco

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Jeremy Ferrara, Nate Budroe and Slow Motion Cowboys
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7:30pm doors, 8:00pm show
$15 advance, $20 day of show
About this Event

What good is a song if it doesn’t make you feel something? Jeremy Ferrara knows this, and refuses to waste a minute of your time. His good nature and innate tenderness is inescapable, and anyone within earshot of his quavering voice and quiet guitar is likely to swoon in sympathetic reaction. He’s a folksinger, and a song-diviner. His music is as fun as it is finely detailed. His latest album Everything I Hold is exemplary of this style. Produced by Mike Coykendall, the LP features just Jeremy, his guitar, and voice, on eight songs that fill the listener with wonder, empathy, and joy.

Though he’s been playing in bands and experimenting with his talent since the credulous age of 11 years old, it wasn’t until Ferrara went away to college that he was able to fully realize his love of musicianship. While studying physics at UC Santa Barbara, Ferrara frequented thriving DIY music spaces like Biko Garage. These were more than just spaces for Ferrara though. It was in these intimate settings that Ferrara would forge his identity as a musician and find his love for touring. A love that has carried him through 4+ years of multiple tours throughout the US and Europe.

While drawing inspiration from greats like Joni Mitchell, Conor Oberst, Adrianne Lenker, and Neil Young, Ferrara is still able to achieve his own distinct sound. His endearingly forthright lyrics are driven by modern indie hooks paired with timeless, tender, folky sounds. Open tunings and fingerpicking are sprinkled throughout Ferrara’s works, giving them a classic and comforting sort of twang. His debut album, With Every Change (2020), calls on the techniques of his folk predecessors and was first tracked on the stage of a 100-year-old theatre over 3 and a half days in the tiny mountain town of Enterprise, Oregon; before full band features like keyboard and pedal steel were later overdubbed.

At the heart of Ferrara’s work, you will find… well, Ferrara’s own heart. His open-hearted songwriting lays all to bare and takes no shame in doing so.

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Nate Budroe is a Californian Singer Songwriter, currently based in San Francisco. Most of their catalog is made up of acoustic guitar driven songs that range from quiet reflections, wrestling optimism, realism, and depression. From relationships and loneliness, to electric guitar rampages about faithlessness and an uncaring world.

Influenced by anti folk acts Herman Dune and Adam Green, as well as singer songwriters like Kevin Morby, Courtney Barnett, Jeff Tweedy, and Brittany Howard, Nate Budroe is also a founding member of the indie rock and roll outfit Goodworld. Co-founded with frequent collaborator (Ur My Boy, Casa Pacheco) Oscar Dan Pratt. Budroe is also the former frontman of psych/indie rock band Locus Pocus.

In 2018 Budroe released Ur My Boy, his first solo record independently, followed by his full length album in 2019, Casa Pacheco. Since then, Budroe has been writing feverishly, gigging around the Bay Area, and making lattes. Releasing two singles and the eponymous six song Goodworld record in 2022. He currently has a new single on the way this summer.

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Slow Motion Cowboys is the band name and inspiration of songwriter Pete Fields. Songs written to explore the nature of traditional American music through the lens of a wandering San Francisco kid. Singing of another era, maybe before his time, maybe just before this one, he cuts the vein of his native hometown to mine the dna of a place he has definitely lost. Lately, from his new adopted home of New Orleans, his music has shot up like a corner W**d and staked a claim to a new sound, inspired by the deep musical roots of the gulf coast. But Slow Motion Cowboys have always pulled from the borders, over the years touring extensively through the south and southwest. Rolling through town after town searching for yarns to eventually spin, guitar strings hopefully in tune. The songs now take on his new world. Less nostalgia, more reverie; music as medicine to weather the storm.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Amado's, 998 Valencia Street, San Francisco, United States

Tickets

USD 15.00 to USD 20.00

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