About SmokeWagon
As with every band, it started with a conversation. Dean, Matthew and Peter had been playing together for a year or so -- jamming, learning from each other, backing up bluesman JD Hobson down in Seattle, and all the while talking about what we’d really like to do with our music. We had a name and we kind of knew what it sounded like. Then one day, we finally got the call. It was Randy, “Guys, I’m ready”. It was the call we’d been waiting for. Randy, with his many talents, held the key that would open up our sound. We were not a blues band. We were not a country honky-tonk band. We were not any one thing. All that aside, we just wanted to play whatever the hell we wanted to play and to have fun doing it. It was with this principle in mind that we formed SmokeWagon.
Starting in the Fall of 2010, SmokeWagon began burning the nights away in a barn at the foot of the Chuckanut mountains near the two-saloon town of Edison, Wash. We take favorite tunes from yesteryear and re-appropriate them, creating something recognizable yet never heard before. An old fiddle tune flat-picked on electric guitar fast and furious, or Beethoven’s “Fur Elise” as an epic surf instrumental for instance. We write our own music as well. Music to dance to like the old barn dances from back in the day -- like drinking whiskey by a warm campfire out on the seashore. Music that plows down the tracks like the freight trains flying by just across the field from our barn, and music that floats off softly like the hangliders aloft over the fields and farms out here on the flats. We love where we’re from and our goal is not to create an escape from it, but to provide a vehicle for release. We all need to get down and get tight every once in a while.
SmokeWagon is Matthew Linville on Drums, Dean Luce on guitar, Randy Gauthier on horns, keys, guitar and harmonica, and Peter Bridgman on the doghouse bass. We all sing, sometimes solo, sometimes in four part harmony. Our music comes from all around us and from within, and we call our music…
*Spaghetti-Surf-Garage-A-Billy*
It just kind’a rolls off the tongue, don’t it?
Starting in the Fall of 2010, SmokeWagon began burning the nights away in a barn at the foot of the Chuckanut mountains near the two-saloon town of Edison, Wash. We take favorite tunes from yesteryear and re-appropriate them, creating something recognizable yet never heard before. An old fiddle tune flat-picked on electric guitar fast and furious, or Beethoven’s “Fur Elise” as an epic surf instrumental for instance. We write our own music as well. Music to dance to like the old barn dances from back in the day -- like drinking whiskey by a warm campfire out on the seashore. Music that plows down the tracks like the freight trains flying by just across the field from our barn, and music that floats off softly like the hangliders aloft over the fields and farms out here on the flats. We love where we’re from and our goal is not to create an escape from it, but to provide a vehicle for release. We all need to get down and get tight every once in a while.
SmokeWagon is Matthew Linville on Drums, Dean Luce on guitar, Randy Gauthier on horns, keys, guitar and harmonica, and Peter Bridgman on the doghouse bass. We all sing, sometimes solo, sometimes in four part harmony. Our music comes from all around us and from within, and we call our music…
*Spaghetti-Surf-Garage-A-Billy*
It just kind’a rolls off the tongue, don’t it?
