# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Friendship – with Natalie Jane Hill
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 02 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Friendship
with Natalie Jane Hill
Monday, February 2
Doors: 7 pm : Show: 8 pm
Cat’s Cradle Back Room

TICKET LINK: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/53559879/friendshipwith-natalie-jane-hill-carrboro-cats-cradle-back-room

Music for sleeping and waking, walking and driving, hunting and fishing, for loitering outside a roadhouse on the haunted tundra. Okay in elevators, not great for dinner. On Caveman Wakes Up Friendship’s new album and second for Merge Records, the band’s historically capacious definition of country music grows wider still. Shambolic guitars are offset by flute pads, bleary poetry is set against a Motown rhythm section, a song about Jerry Garcia and First Lady Betty Ford fades out with a drum solo, like if Talk Talk came from a dingy Philadelphia basement, and was fronted by James Tate. Songwriter Dan Wriggins’ ragged baritone cuts through eleven murky, swirling country-rock songs with profound lyrical substance and sincerity. Like an alarm clock incorporated into the edge of a dream, Caveman Wakes Up belongs equally to the conscious and subconscious mind, fraught with background, steeped in reference and experimentation, delivered casually and as a dire warning, dedicated, above all, to music’s creative soul.

Over the years, dedication has paid off. Friendship has become a kind of reverse supergroup, wherein the band itself and each individual member is located centrally in an increasingly prominent scene of young folk and country musicians and songwriters. Drummer Michael Cormier O’Leary leads the instrumental collective Hour and, along with bassist Jon Samuels, run Dear Life Records, home to friends and peers who count Friendship as a major influence, including MJ Lenderman, Florry, and Fust. (Samuels also plays lead guitar in MJ Lenderman and the Wind). Guitarist Peter Gill’s band 2nd Grade records prolifically. Wriggins began writing the songs of Caveman Wakes Up on a downtuned classical guitar of Lenderman’s, and finished on a barely-tuned piano in an apartment he shared with Sadurn’s G DeGroot.

In the summer of 2023, Wriggins had just left the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where his love for poetry and mistrust for the academic poetry world grew in tandem. A relationship fell apart, and Wriggins crashed for several weeks at Lenderman’s and Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman’s home in North Carolina, where he recorded the first demos of “Resident Evil,” “All Over the World,” and “Love Vape.” Wriggins returned to Philadelphia, and the band got to work on new ideas, finally tracking the album in five days with engineer Jeff Ziegler (Mary Lattimore, War on Drugs). Wriggins recorded vocals with Love the Stranger engineer Bradford Kreiger, and organ, violin (Jason Calhoun), and flute (Adelyn Strei) were recorded by Lucas Knapp in a West Philadelphia church.

Lyrically, Caveman Wakes Up covers familiar Friendship ground — the sacred is profaned and the profane sanctified. On “All Over the World,” a landscaper “[feels] the beating heart of God/ laying down a roll of sod.” Characters complain about work and marvel at love. Here, however, we get Wriggins’ first real confrontation with depression, in “Hollow Skulls,” “All Over the World,” and “Resident Evil,” where the soul wages its perpetual war against darkness and stagnation. It often loses. The verses of Hollow Skulls are punctuated by passages of musical emptiness, a single suspended chord and brushes on a snare drum. When Wriggins complains about a roommate, shouting “who’s that shithead in my living room/ playing Resident Evil,” it’s abundantly clear there is no roommate, that the evil resides within.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/carrboro/friendship-with-natalie-jane-hill/200029298039802
- **Event Categories**: music, entertainment, art, literary-art, workshops, country-music-festivals, live-music
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 10

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Carrboro
- **state**: NC
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Cat's Cradle Back Room
- **lat**: 35.91015765634
- **long**: -79.068787894415
- **full address**: Cat's Cradle Back Room, Carrboro, North Carolina, United States

## Event gallery

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Friendship – with Natalie Jane Hill being held?
  - **A:** Friendship – with Natalie Jane Hill takes place on Mon, 02 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm to Mon, 02 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Cat's Cradle Back Room, Carrboro, North Carolina, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Friendship – with Natalie Jane Hill?
  - **A:** Friendship – with Natalie Jane Hill is organized by Cat's Cradle.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Friendship – with Natalie Jane Hill is ideal for music lovers, fans of all genres, and anyone who wants to celebrate the power of music - from intimate gigs and live sessions to festivals and cultural performances. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Carrboro, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Friendship – with Natalie Jane Hill sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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