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Photo by Christopher Bruno

The NYCTaper coverage of the 2024 Deep in the Valley festival continues with Sean Thompson’s Weird Ears!

I’m going to be completely upfront about this: This was the set I was most looking forward to going into the event, simply because I’d been pestering Andy from Raven Sings The Blues for at least two years to get Sean Thompson to play Deep In The Valley.

Sean is a guitar player, songwriter, and generally good dude from Nashville. I’ll skip the background info; you can get all that on a recent episode of Good Friend of the Site J. M. Hart’s consistently excellent Brokedown Podcast. The critical thing to glean from the interview is that Sean is now actively writing and focusing his energy on the “Weird Ears” project. 

I was lucky to sit with several people who were unfamiliar with Sean’s work before this set. With “country music,” in whatever that means, having a bit of a moment in the larger psych/improv/jam scene, it’s easy to draw comparisons to more well-known names. In the moment, I attempted to sell it to the uninitiated as “similar to the name brand country-tinged jam folks but more authentic, weirder, and much more psychedelic.” To me, that translates to way more interesting, but that doesn’t do Sean’s work justice, and, to be fair, it was just lazy on my part. 

Luckily for Sean, he doesn’t need me to sell you on this; him and his band will do it on their own.  This excellent-sounding set features tracks from his superb Selt Titled 2022 album as well as some new jammers, including the latest single, “Ridin’ In The Van,” which has a brand new video (debuting today!) to go along with it:

Ridin’ In the Van

Pre order your copy of the new Weird Ears album “Head In The Sand” (out February 7) here. If he makes it back to the Hudson Valley for a proper full length set you can be sure I’ll be there!

I recorded this set with my MBHOs at the stage lip and a phenomenal soundboard feed from FOH engineer Daniel Stout.  Play it LOUD.

Download and stream from the Live Music Archive!

Sean Thompson’s Weird Ears
2024-08-10
Deep in The Valley Festival
From The Ground Brewery
Red Hook, NY

Source: MBHO 440 + SDB > MixPre 3 > SD (24/48) > Adobe Audition/Izotope 9 > Audacity Flac (lvl8) > Mp3Tag

Recorded and produced by kliked for nyctaper.com

Thanks to FOH engineer Daniel Stout for the board patch!

1. Raspberry Pie
2. New Trailway Boogie
3. Before The Flowers Bloom
4. Ridin In The Van
5. Street People

Please support this excellent artist!
https://seanthompsonsweirdears.bandcamp.com/

Please support Raven Sings The Blues!
https://www.ravensingstheblues.com/

Photo by Christopher Bruno:
https://christopherbrunophotography.pixieset.com