![]() We wanted to record live with the best rhythm section we could find, in one room, playing together while we sang. He wanted to do something sparse and rhythmic with simple melodic arrangements and it lined up perfectly with the direction our new songs were leading us. JD is a music connoisseur with the singing voice of an angel, the boundless creative energy of a child, a scholar’s mind and the auditory perception of a wolf. We opened for him at a gig in our hometown Minneapolis a few months earlier and had met him briefly, but never could have imagined that within a year we would be collaborating on a new album and criss-crossing America on tour with his band. When JD McPherson called and said he was interested in producing our record, it was the latest in a series of serendipitous events that brought us to where we are today. It always stretches us out and makes us feel lucky as hell. Good fortune has followed us every step of the way, offering opportunities that seemed just beyond what we’re ready for. We just got into some music from a different era and found a way to make it our own. That’s when the wheel got going and gave the illusion of spinning backwards. Not everyone could tell what was new and what was old, and it didn’t really matter. Over the course of our year and a half at the Turf Club our repertoire had snowballed into an amalgam of original songs and a bunch of gut wrenching, tongue-in-cheek heartbreakers, that were 30 years older than us. ![]() ![]() It was our first chance to play all night and do whatever we wanted. We got a band together and it became our weekly practice-in-public where we would pull out every song we could think of, no matter how well we knew it. Early on we were given a residency at the Turf Club in St. We cut our teeth performing some well known and obscure country songs that were popular or unpopular pre-1960, partly out of curiosity and deep appreciation, but mostly because it was fun. ![]() When my brother and I started making music as The Cactus Blossoms there wasn’t a big plan. Buy your tickets online! The Cactus Blossoms Bio: ![]()
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