If you go
› What: Blitzen Trapper in concert with Lauris Vidal as support.› When: 9 p.m. Wednesday, March 9.› Where: Revelry Room, 41 E. 14th St.› Admission: $14 in advance, $16 day of.› Phone: 423-521-2929.› Venue website: revelryroom.co.› Artist website: blitzentrapper.net.
Q&A
Read a Q&A with Blitzen Trapper lead singer Eric Earley.
Discography
2015: “All Across This Land” / “Live Harvest”2014: “Live in Portland” / “Hold On” / “Daytrotter Presents No. 18 LP”2013: “VII”2012: “Hey Joe”2011: “American Goldwing” / “Maybe Baby”2010: “Destroyer of the Void”2009: “Black River Killer” (EP) / “War Is Placebo”2008: “Furr”2007: “Cool Love #1” / “Wild Mountain Nation”2005: “Field Rexx”2003: “Blitzen Trapper”
From Tennessee Ernie Ford’s “16 Tons” and Bruce Springsteen’s “Factory” to Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5,” musicians have never shied away from singing about the travails of the working man.
What most people don’t realize, however, says Blitzen Trapper lead singer Eric Earley, is that the recording industry has gotten to the point where the bands have become the ones with dirt under their fingernails and paychecks so thin you can shave with them. They’re not just singing about that lifestyle, he says, they’re living it.