Before taking the stage, Blitzen Trapper enjoyed a few cigarettes and chatted with eager fans on SOhO’s rooftop patio. It was a Wednesday night, the club was relaxed, and without any opener for the Portland natives, a quiet and pleasant comfort pervaded the venue. As Marty Marquis, keyboardist and all around music man, took one last toke from his tobacco pipe, Blitzen Trapper casually strolled on stage.
“This is a pretty good crowd for a Wednesday!” yelled lead singer Eric Earley to a tightly packed audience.
Marquis hurried inside and hopped on stage right, and the band went straight into their new album All Across This Land, starting the show off with the artfully composed song, “Rock n’ Roll (Was Made for You).” It makes perfect sense to open with this song, and in a recent interview with the Independent, Earley told us that this song was his “favorite to play live right now.”