Lewi Longmire Band
Fire 'Neath the Still
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Relaxed roots rock and roll (with some desert sensibilities) from a stalwart bunch of Pacific Northwest musicians.
tracks
- 1 Moon Song
- 2 Whatchoo Gonna Do About...?
- 3 Sweet Situation
- 4 Disappear
- 5 Baby, Would You Take Me Home?
- 6 This Time
- 7 San Ysidro
- 8 Voluntary Martyr
- 9 Behind the Eightball
- 10 One Thing at a Time
- 11 New Lone Ranger
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"Lewi Longmire’s preferred list of his own recordings runs 42 albums—the complete discography (from acoustic to rock to Valvoline ad spots) would choke a Nano. Regarding live shows, it’s more likely the 37-year-old Portland musician has a gig scheduled around town than not. 'The peak of the madness was 2003,' says the local legend. 'I played 282 shows that year. I musta been nuts...and young. Peter Buck recently joked about my presence around town. He thought it was weird to go see a band in Portland and find I wasn’t playing in it.'
Born to a family of musicians in a Rio Grande farming community, Longmire has a famed versatility (he plays electric and upright bass, pedal and lap steel and traditional guitar, organ and piano, mandolin, drums, harmonica, banjo, trumpet, fitful violin and, as a Universal Life Church minister, has been known to marry bandmates), which led to him being called “the session musician’s session musician.” He started early, mastering instruments in school and playing whatever was needed for those few bands available. After a brief stint at the University of New Mexico, Longmire started touring a folk-punk project around the West Coast, and, a decade later, finally settled ’round Portland. He says he 'devoted [him]self to being a hired gun in the Americana circles.' "
-Willamette Week, April 2008
Long a noted sideman and studio musician in Portland, Lewi has played with everyone from: Michael Hurley, Fernando, Victoria Williams, Jerry Joseph, Casey Neill & the Norway Rats, the Bingo Dream Band, Little Sue, James Low, Tony Furtado, Caleb Klauder, Jackie O-Motherfucker, Michael Dean Damron/I Can Lick Any SOB in the House, Scott Law, Pete Krebs, Tara Jane O'Neill, Michael Jodell, Annalisa Tornfelt, the Holy Modal Rounders/Freak Mountain Ramblers, and Hillstomp.
But, with his sophomore studio full-length, "Fire ‘Neath The Still", which
was recorded by Jeff "Chet" Lyster (Lucinda Williams, the Eels), the
notable sideman is once again breaking out on his own, with his own band,
and releasing a set of classic-rock-inspired roots music.
Starting with his core live trio (himself with bassist Bill Rudolph and drummer Ned Folkerth), the songs are helped along by the ample talents of some of Lewi's fine musical friends. Jenny Conlee (Decemberists, Casey Neill- keyboards), Paul Brainard (Richmond Fontaine- horns), Annalisa Tornfelt (Bearfoot Bluegrass- violin), Kevin "Bingo" Richey (Bingo Dream Band, Golden Delicious- guitar), Susannah Weaver (Little Sue- vocals), David Lipkind (Joe McMurrian Quartet, Supersuckers- harmonica) and Caleb Miles (guitar) all contribute to the disc.
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A Potent Mix
author: LivePDX.com...As much fun as it is to watch Lewi's infectious energy in a backup role, the effect is doubled when he's fronting his own outfit, The Lewi Longmire Band. In classic trio form, Lewi, bassist Bill Rudolph and drummer Ned Folkerth tear through a variety of styles of American music — country, folk, rock, jazz, blues and psychedelia, quite often blurring the lines between them. It's a potent mix, and one that has garnered him a consistent fan base that often fills up the LaurelThirst Pub on Thursday nights, where Lewi and the band have been holding court for a number of years. All of this is front and center on the latest album by the band, Fire 'neath The Still. Released this month, the album features 11 iterations of Lewi's polymath musical vision, moving from the jazzy "Disappear" to the weepy folk of "San Ysidro" with beautiful ease. It's an album that evokes sunny road trips, backyard barbecues and campfire chats — in other words, the perfect soundtrack to the warmer months that are hopefully right around the corner. (Bob Ham, April 2008)
Swamp rock with soul
author: KathleenI just can't get enough of Fire 'Neath the Still... it has been in my top 3 rotation for weeks. It is Lewi and his band at their best... with Lewi's original music and songwriting, and sweet, sweet guitar playing. Love it.
Great stuff!!
author: Dan WareI've been listening to "Fire 'Neath the Still" for a few days now and while I initially missed some of the eclecticness of "If I Lived to be 100", I'm really starting to dig this new effort. Lewi's got a style all his own.. I describe it to friends as a mix of bluegrass, folk, the Dead and then something that's all just him. Now backed by a couple of obviously talented musicians, Lewi's music has matured while still maintains its humor and texture. This is a great CD by a great musician.. Certainly fans in Portland will be snapping this up quickly, but fans back in Albuquerque need to hear this too! Way to go Lewi!
Sproutin' Roots in PDX
author: The OregonianDue to the impressive list of instrumental sideman and production credits Lewi Longmire has racked up in Portland, the former New Mexican is frequently referred to as a "hired gun," a phrase that summons up stock images of a clock-watching cowpuncher cranking out his parts for the paycheck. But even if his fingerprints are on most of the better roots music and Americana CDs coming out of town lately (if it has strings or keys, he's got you covered), a quick listen to the Longmire Band's latest, "Fire 'Neath the Still" shows Lewi to be more of the indispensable ranch-hand type; the confident pro who'll write you an eight-bar bridge back to the chorus or master a banjo arrangement, cracking wise the whole time. It's to his credit and Portland's benefit that Longmire chose to relocate his Southwestern dryness to our rainy climes instead heading out to Nashville to hack out singles for publishing companies. On "Fire," the Longmire Band (featuring Bill Rudolph on bass and drummer Ned Folkerth) displays a deft facility for a number of roots forms, including 1970s pop folk ("Moon Song"), country jazz ("Disappear" is a close cousin to Van Morrison's "Moondance"), West Coast bar band boogie ("Baby, Would You Take Me Home?") and heartland classic rock ("Voluntary Martyr"). Longmire's lyrics ably split the difference between sentimental and smart without reaching for self-conscious cleverness. On the closer, "New Lone Ranger," laundry day becomes a metaphor for a blossoming love that's been rode hard and put up wet: "Just like your old favorite Western shirt, worn thin and caked with dirt/ I'd just as soon fall apart at the seams as I would come clean." If that's the work of a hired gun, we could use few more 'round these parts. (Curt Shultz, the Oregonian 4/25/08)