Lord Huron resurrects old western tales for 'Lonesome Dreams'
Ben Schneider comes in from the wild for a performance at Drunken Unicorn this Friday
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Lord Huron makes tropical folk music with a healthy slathering of reverb. The thought of that sounds kind of godawful — until you hear it. When Ben Schneider (aka Lord Huron) starts the opening song "Ends of the Earth" from debut album Lonesome Dreams, you can practically hear the whine of the river about which he sings. And when the song rapidly blooms with expansive Afro-pop percussion, it feels like it's finally time to get out of the city and run wild. Another single from the record, "Time to Run", starts with wind chimes before erupting into a number that will make even the saddest of menfolk and hipsters happy again.
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I caught up with Schneider and had a lot of laughs as he divulged the crazy things men do when under the influence of a lady, the purpose behind the made-up author he created, and how the frontier has helped him "lay bare the experience of man."
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Lord Huron. With Night Moves. $10. 9p.m. Fri., Oct. 5. Drunken Unicorn, 736 Ponce de Leon Avenue. www.drunkenunicorn.net
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I’ve noticed with your songs, you talk about women a lot. Which a lot of people do, but you talk about women in a very intricate way. I noticed on George Ranger Johnson’s website there’s this page that he supposedly wrote, and it says, "I lie on my back blissfully defenseless of her attack." And then in Son of a Gun there’s definitely a woman who wants her revenge when you sing "When she finds him she will make him regret he was ever born." There’s always kind of these powerhouse women in your songs.
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Yeah, I think those women pertain to extremes. I think women more than anything can do that to you.
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Do what to you?