Simon Joyner is a world-renowned American singer-songwriter from Omaha, Nebraska who has released 19 albums on independent labels since the early 1990s. His earliest records were influential signposts of the Lo-Fi and home-taping movement which also produced contemporaries like Smog, Lou Barlow, Will Oldham and the Mountain Goats. He is now widely regarded as one of the great songwriters of our generation. Gillian Welch calls him her favorite poet and Kevin Morby and Conor Oberst both claim him as a major influence with Bright Eyes also recording covers of Joyner’s songs “Burn Rubber” and “Double Joe.” John Peel, the famed British DJ, once played Joyner’s album “The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll” in its entirety on his show, a rare event journalists at the time referred to as “The Peel Incident.” Despite often being described as a songwriter’s songwriter, the stubbornly independent artist has soared under the radar for over thirty years, enjoying cult status without ever needing to make the unholy sacrifices the industry often requires of artists looking to survive or live on their music. His storytelling has been compared to Leonard Cohen, Townes Van Zandt, Lou Reed, and Bob Dylan. Over the course of 19 albums his career is hard to pin down as he’s followed a mercurial path, never content to make the same record twice.
For the upcoming September US tour Joyner is reuniting with Leah Senior and Jesse Williams, the Melbourne natives, who formed the core of his backing band, the Eucalypts, on his recent five week tour of Australia and New Zealand. The expanded Nervous Stars band also includes regular collaborators, Mychal Marasco from Los Angeles and Phoenix brothers, Micah and Caleb Dailey.
Australian-based folk diviner Leah Senior silences audiences with vivid lyricism and a voice that soars with a disarmingly honest Sandy Denny-like clarity. Quietly revered as a master songwriter, she effortlessly weaves together spring-time baroque pop playfulness with a fragile blend of bedroom folk.
IE (pronounced “eee”) is a five-piece from Minneapolis devoted to experiences of hypnotic minimalism— sonic rituals from the future and ambient, desert soundscapes. Their shows feature sustained tones, electronic whirrs, slow beats, video and film projections, metaphysical recitations, and carefully crafted atmospheres.
You may also like the following events from Cloudland Theater:
- This Sunday, 21st September, 06:30 pm, Cardiel, Psychic Vampire, VHS Dust in Minneapolis
- Next Saturday, 27th September, 07:30 pm, Gates Of Dawn, Comets Ov Cupid, Aune Mire in Minneapolis
- Next month, 4th October, 07:30 pm, Rad Owl, Kids on Fire, Linus in Minneapolis
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