Massy Ferguson will perform live at The Record Exchange (1105 W. Idaho St., Downtown Boise) at 5 p.m. Saturday, March 26. As always, this Record Exchange in-store performance is free and all ages.
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Seattle’s Massy Ferguson (massyfergusonband.com) has taken its raucous rock Americana to the far reaches of the globe. In the past three years, the four-piece band has played shows in Melbourne, Australia, Munich, Germany and Puerto Pinasco, Mexico, to name just a few destinations.
Despite this penchant for the international, Massy Ferguson remains local to the bone, a fixture on the burgeoning Seattle roots music scene that has spawned the likes of Brandi Carlile and Fleet Foxes. With an approach that is decidedly more rock than the aforementioned groups, Massy Ferguson combines growling vocals with epic guitar riffs and banging piano to create a sound that is equally burly and soulful. Tracing their influences to bands like The Jayhawks, The Hold Steady and Bruce Springsteen, the group plays its own brand of blue-collar twang rock.
In 2008, Massy Ferguson released its full-length debut album, Cold Equations, which garnered rave reviews nationally despite being independently released. Music tastemaker Bruce Warren of WXPN Radio in Philadelphia made Massy Ferguson his Download of the Day, calling the album “an impressive record.” Cold Equations also made waves in Seattle, getting serious spins on Seattle’s highly influential non-commercial station KEXP and commercial station KMTT “The Mountain.” Massy Ferguson was named a 2009 Artist To Watch by Skope Magazine, and in November of that year the band was featured in a short documentary film about KEXP for MTV.com.
Additionally, the band has experienced great success with live shows, packing venues in the Pacific Northwest. They have headlined rooms ranging from Neumos to The Tractor to the Sunset Tavern in Seattle. They have opened for a number of national and international touring acts as well, including members of Phish and the Grateful Dead, The Bottle Rockets, Fastball, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers and Micky and the Motorcars, among others.
The band signed a record deal with Seattle’s Spark and Shine Records and released Hard Water in October 2010. Massy Ferguson consists of Ethan Anderson, vocals/bass; Adam Monda, guitar/vocals; Tony Mann, keyboards; and Dave Goedde, drums.