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Appearing IN PERSON, RILEY DOWNING w/very special guest NORA KENNY!!!**ABOUT RILEY DOWNING ::**
For years, singer-songwriter Riley Downing has collected stories about life’s overlooked moments and underappreciated people. He’s unearthed these tales of castaway truths and once-faded recollections for Landfill Poetry, a sophomore solo album and Oh Boy Records debut. A native of small-town Missouri who once worked as a backroad trashman before becoming one of music’s weathered journeymen, the husky-voiced Downing may be best known as a member of noisemaking Americana outfit The Deslondes, a New Orleans-born band that he co-founded after a clandestine meeting with likeminded musicians at a folk festival in Oklahoma. On Landfill Poetry, his six-string worldbuilding takes listeners to the back of the trash truck (“Landfill Poetry”), inside the lonely hours of the graveyard paycheck (“Night Shift”) and to the quiet moments after a hard day of work (“Porch Song”). He sings for the restless ones who stay up way too late (“Hay Hay Hay”) and the grandchildren who admire a hard-working compassion once shared between late loved ones (“Helen & Gene”). With each song,
Downing uncovers sketches of life that once might’ve been lost to the landfill but instead are shared anew.
LISTEN to Riley Downing :: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1CUUaD4QTSHjEfrLohLaW6?si=DEtyXAntTs2FLEANyeJHyw
LISTEN to Nora Kenny :: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5nIasNs0kBqObz5ikssxqD?si=pfV1vwQFSKiAdoBSsP7v4g
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