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Monday, November 17, 2008
Weekend! Pat Hull to Pull in to Portland for Three-Day Stint
Posted by Ryan J. Prado on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:30 PM
Chico troubadour Pat Hull, along with his band, was one of the many reasons I regretted moving away from my formerly tranquil college hovel. Along with an inherent talent for songwriting, Hull's unassuming agenda provided him audiences with literally every type of band and showgoer lurking in the pubs surrounding CSU, Chico (including my own abomination, the Ramones cover band, Pinhead). Immediate reactions were to Hull's Neil Young-huffing-helium vocal range, but after those early assessments, we all realized that he was a goddamn genius (Sample lyric: "I will not forget the days that we spent struggling for more/I will not forget the ways we ruffled this town's feathers with our thorns." from "Tractor").
Lucky for me, Portland seems to have a magnetism that draws some of my favorites right to my backdoor.
Hull, whose move to Chico from the East Coast helped usher in a new renaissance for Northern California grassroots singer/songwriters, operates within an approachable milieu, trading tenor vocals with plodding, melodic finger-picking to accent his obvious ambition to grow in both music and in life. To put it even more personally, Hull's tune "Paint Me A Picture" provided a shockingly effective emotional bridge between myself and my long-distance girlfriend earlier this year. "Whaaaaaaaaa!!!!" says you, but it isn't often a local singer commands my heartstrings so deftly.
His album, Yes is available on iTunes, as well as being available via Chico-based music management collective Recrux Records, and the band is snaking its way up the coast to share. Check out the video at the end of the post and go, go, go to these shows:
Nov 21 2008 8:00P
The Kenton Club w/Prick and the Burn Portland, Oregon
Nov 23 2008 9:30P
The Laurelthirst w.Tchotchkes,Portland, Oregon
Nov 25 2008 6:00P
Mississippi Pizza w/ Mcdougall Portland, Oregon
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