American Goldwing

Description

American Goldwing is Sub Pops third full-length release with Portlands Blitzen Trapper and the bands sixth full-length overall. Over the course of their career theyve earned rave reviews (from Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, SPIN, and a whole lot more), played on television, appeared at festivals all around the world, done a staggering amount of touring, and sold a whole bunch of records. All of which is distinctly less interesting that what Blitzen Trapper singer/songwriter/guitarist Eric Earley has to say about the bands new record, American Goldwing

Its us letting our loves, our early influences hang out for all to see. Entering into the sounds we grew up with, the hard guitar rock and country picking of our younger years mixes with glimmers of our usual space-aging technology and pawn shop Casio aplomb. Heavy guitar riffs and blasting drum fills live side-by-side with plucking banjos and wailing harmonicas, and muddy slide guitars that make you want to shotgun a beer in the shower while listening to the Stones or Joe Walsh. Its also our first foray into direct, outside influence in the creation of a record. Its me letting go in a certain way. I let Tchad Blake come in to mix this album, and my good friend Gregg Williams co-produced all these tracks.

When I sing, in the title track, I know / I know / Ill be staying if the wind dont blow, Im seeking to invoke the unseen, the spirit that beckons you to saddle up that old 1980 Honda Goldwing, or your uncles beat up Ford Bronco, or that Jeep you somehow, and only barely, keep running and leave this lonely town behind, cause that winds always blowing. Im calling you to ride, to take those curves at speed and head for someplace better where love is true, whether that be into the depths of the galaxy or just to the next truck stop where the neon shines, and where the company of strangers / and the close and the present dangers are all that really matters.”