FREQY HOUR featuring COUSIN DUD w/ Adam Faucett, William Blackart

FREQY HOUR featuring COUSIN DUD w/ Adam Faucett, William Blackart
March 13, 5:30 PM
Ages: 21+

☆ Opening act(s): Adam Faucett, William Blackart

ADAM FAUCETT

Drawing comparisons from Townes Van Zandt to Tim Buckley to Lou Reed, Adam Faucett is a tough act to label. Most known for his powerful, almost operatic voice and intricate fingerpicking, Adam's songs are characterized by lush, warm melodies and shifty-smiled lyrics nestled on top of subliminal guitar work. It's a sound this Arkansas native has coined 'southern soul, swamp opera.'

Adam's first introduction to playing was fingerpicking a classical, nylon string guitar around the age of twelve. Years later, in the fall of 2000, as a college freshman in Arkansas, Faucett formed his first "serious" band. Taught The Rabbits was something of a redneck Pink Floyd with a huge fanbase throughout the state and frequent touring schedule of the south. The band broke up after Faucett's move to Chicago in 2006.
However, throughout the entire lifespan of Taught The Rabbits Faucett continued to write songs better suited for the acoustic and kept up his tradition of fingerpicking.

In September 2007, Adam released his first solo album, The Great Basking Shark, and hit the road. In October 2008 Blue Tint Records released the follow up album, Show Me Magic, Show Me Out and recording has begun on a third record. Along the way Adam picked up bassist Johnny D. and drummer Chad Conder. Though he tours frequently with the band, his string of March shows will be solo, acoustic.

WILLIAM BLACKART

Known for gravelly vocals, spare instrumentation and harshly delicate lyrics, Arkansas' William Blackart plays a breed of folk song some have come to recognize as 'poor man's gothic.' William's songs are driven by his near-literary lyrics -- tales of labor, love, loss and longing sprinkled with the salts of some darker haunting. Strummed guitar and mandolin, and sparse fingerpicking on guitar leave the perfect holes, allowing the imagination to fall right in.

William grew up with his fater's calssic country LPs, and cassette tapes of The Beatles and The Beach Boys. But the mid-1990's found him submerged in the music of punk rock bands such as The Clash, Angry Samoans, and The Dead Milkmen. Late in 1998 William formed the high enery punk outfit, The Fraggin Monarchists. The band played costantly to its fanbase throughout the sate of Arkansas, even embarking on a few small national tours. Line-up changes led the band to reform, playing more of a punk rock and roll sound under the name Ray Brower's Body in 2005.
It was around that time William found himself with the need for writing a more stripped down syle of song and began to spend more time with an acoustic guitar. In 2006 He made the move to Chicago and Ray Brower's Body parted ways, so William focused all of his energies into the wiriting of his bare bones syle of folk song.

William released Left, his first solo record, in September 2007 and began touring in support of the album. The sophomore album, A Well Woven Thread, is scheduled for release in March 2010.