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Friday, August 21, 2009
Weekend! / MP3 The New Drew Grow Song Is Amazing
Posted by Ned Lannamann on Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:53 PM
Sunday night's show celebrates the release of Drew Grow and the Pastors' Wives' brand-new single, "Bootstraps," but there's more to it than that: It's the launch of new label Amigo/Amiga, run by Pastors' Wives drummer Jeremiah Hayden and gathered from the ashes of NAT'L Recordings, Hayden's previous label. Grow and the Wives are planning a series of 7-inch singles (sold for a mere $2—cheap!) over the coming months, and they're starting strongly with "Bootstraps," a catchy bootstomper with rattling acoustic guitars and wide-open mass backing vocals. But the real cherry is the Richard Manuel-esque B-side "Friendly Fire," a deliberately plodding country gospel number that's absolutely breathtaking, as Grow's voice urgently raises a vaulted ceiling of harmonies before tumbling back down to earth.Take a listen to "Friendly Fire" below. In just a few short days, this has rapidly become one of my favorite songs. I literally cannot stop listening to it. Drew Grow and the Pastors' Wives have been making criminally underheard music in the saturated Portland scene for a long while now—most recently, Sow to Sow, last year’s magnificent collaborative EP with Katrina Skalland—and with both them and Kelli Schaefer on Amigo/Amiga’s budding roster, I bet the label becomes one of Portland’s most vital outlets.
LISTEN:
Drew Grow & The Pastors' Wives - "Friendly Fire"
Drew Grow & The Pastors' Wives w/Birds & Batteries, Bryan Free; Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi, Sunday August 23, 8 pm, $8
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