Elvis Perkins and his musical friends
A folk-rock singer and songwriter Elvis Perkins’s debut album entitled 'Ash Wednesday' was officially released in the United Kingdom to great acclaim.
Following on from the recent tour together with Willy Mason, Elvis Perkins was back in the United Kingdom with his group Dearland for gigs at Latitude and Indian Summer as well as a headline gig at Borderline on July 11 in London.
In September, the performer will play several concerts in the United States, California, including 2 concerts at Troubadour (Los Angeles, on September 18, 19, and 20), Largo (Hollywood, on September 22), and San Diego Street Scene (San Diego, on September 23).
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Elvis Perkins’s trio of musicians, called Dearland, is known for walking the line between delicate restraint and raucous performance styles. Its members have joined many acts on stage as a vibrant horn section that is known as "Dearland Horns". It includes Brigham on alto saxophone, Wyndham on trombone, and Nick on clarinet. The musicians joined Kool and the Gang's "Celebration", My Morning Jacket for Lionel Richie's "All Night Long", and Jacket favorites "Dancefloors" and "Easy Morning Rebel" at the Jacket's New Years Eve show 2007 at the Fillmore in San Francisco. The band continued to play with My Morning Jacket on the tour that followed the New Year. Jim James once called the band “the best horn section on this side of the Mississippi”. The group has also frequently joined Cold War Kids on stage, most notably on August 6, 2007, at Madison Square Garden, when Cold War Kids opened for British band Muse.
Elvis Perkins' song entitled "Moon Woman II" appeared on the Fast Food Nation soundtrack. "While You Were Sleeping" was featured in a season Four episode of The O.C..
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