Jason D. Thompson
Willie & the Whips
Aaron Semer
Michael Wohl
Wed, October 19, 2016
9:00 pm
Highline$7.00
Tickets
This event is 21 and over
http://www.highlineseattle.com/event/1308307/
Share This Event
Willie & the Whips
Willie & the Whips crystallized in 2013 around a mission to learn and transmit the blues and generally make good music together for people to dance and listen to. We are directly inspired by Slim Harpo, Mississippi Fred McDowell, RL Burnside, Jr Kimbrough, Johnny Shines, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed and many more but the truth is we love all music.
Aaron Semer
Aaron Semer is a songwriter from Seattle, via Ohio, working to keep the storytelling and social movement aspects of American folk music alive.
The Stranger once said he was “blessing Seattle with his presence before catapulting to mega-fame.” Seattle Sound Magazine declared him “possibly Seattle’s least apathetic songwriter.” Despite these and other accolades, Aaron Semer’s obscurity felt cemented. Perhaps it was an unwillingness to play the game. Perhaps just dumb luck. But since arriving in Seattle almost two decades ago, Semer has plied his lonely craft in the dirty backrooms, dingy bars, and basements of the Pacific Northwest, both solo and in a host of bands you’ve probably never heard of. His voice and worldview have weathered – fractured in some places, hardened in others – but the timeless, genre-defying quality of his songwriting remains.
The Stranger once said he was “blessing Seattle with his presence before catapulting to mega-fame.” Seattle Sound Magazine declared him “possibly Seattle’s least apathetic songwriter.” Despite these and other accolades, Aaron Semer’s obscurity felt cemented. Perhaps it was an unwillingness to play the game. Perhaps just dumb luck. But since arriving in Seattle almost two decades ago, Semer has plied his lonely craft in the dirty backrooms, dingy bars, and basements of the Pacific Northwest, both solo and in a host of bands you’ve probably never heard of. His voice and worldview have weathered – fractured in some places, hardened in others – but the timeless, genre-defying quality of his songwriting remains.
Michael Wohl
Equally at home with screaming electric guitars as with delicate fingerpicked folk melodies, Michael Wohl seamlessly integrates free-roaming influences into his musical vision. An open ear on his many travels has provided a sonic palette that is somehow as concise as it is open-range, melting influences and landscapes into an eccentric and at times mysterious solo style.
Wohl is a musician with one ear to the ground and another to the voice within, ever-transported down twisting roads by his instincts, interests, and experience. Bending genres is no strange thing to him -- it in their synthesis in which his music comes alive. Always learning, shifting, and exploring (though difficult to peg) the music is anchored by touchstones of folk, country, rock and blues. He does not look back as a re-enactor of bygone eras, but inward, towards wherever the music takes him. Buy the ticket, take the ride.
Wohl is a musician with one ear to the ground and another to the voice within, ever-transported down twisting roads by his instincts, interests, and experience. Bending genres is no strange thing to him -- it in their synthesis in which his music comes alive. Always learning, shifting, and exploring (though difficult to peg) the music is anchored by touchstones of folk, country, rock and blues. He does not look back as a re-enactor of bygone eras, but inward, towards wherever the music takes him. Buy the ticket, take the ride.
