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“The sound echoes their decade long career-classic, blues-focused Americana-and feels a bit soul-cleansing, with Miller’s scratchy voice leading the purge.” – Noisey
“An album as strange as it is compelling.” – Uncut
“It will be interesting to hear where Miller and his Howlin’ Rain project take the rest of this trilogy, but Mansion Songs stands on its own as a portrait of Miller’s considerable musical and poetic growth over the last nine years.” – All Music Guide
“If Howlin Rain likes to draw from rock tradition, they also like to push that tradition to its limit, often creating momentary points of chaos, a sense that the songs could fall apart at any moment.” – Slant Magazine
2/26 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
2/27 – Seattle, WA – Sonic Boom In-Store (solo acoustic) – 6pm
2/27 – Seattle, WA – Tractor Tavern
2/28 – Vancouver, BC – The Hindenburg
3/01 – Bellingham, WA – Shakedown
3/03 – Boise, ID – Neurolux
3/04 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court
3/05 – Las Vegas, NV – The Bunkhouse
3/06 – Flagstaff, AZ – The Orpheum
3/07 – Santa Ana, CA – Constellation Room
3/08 – Long Beach, CA – Fingerprints In-store
3/10 – San Diego, CA – The Casbah
3/11 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echo
3/12 – Santa Cruz, CA – Crepe Place
3/13 – Oakland, CA – Leo’s
3/14 – Mill Valley, CA – Sweetwater
4/09 – San Antonio, TX – 502 Bar
4/10 – Austin, TX – The Parish
4/11 – Dallas, TX – The Foundry
4/13 – Atlanta, GA – Vinyl
4/14 – Asheville, NC – New Mountain
4/15 – Raleigh, NC – Pour House
4/16 – Washington, DC – Black Cat, DC
4/17 – Philadelphia, PA – Boot & Saddle
4/18 – Brooklyn, NY – Baby’s All Right
4/19 – Allston, MA – Great Scott
4/21 – Chicago IL – Abbey Pub
4/22 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street
4/23 – Omaha, NE – Reverb
4/24 – Denver, CO – Lost Lake
“I walked out of the back end of my major label run and the first 9 years in Howlin Rain with no band, no label, no foreseeable immediate move forward and a figurative suitcase full of songs, my talent, invigorated by having nothing else to lose, exhausted by the bullshit and grind of the music business, this musical life, and all it’s absolute bullshit and fucked tests, cynical but not bitter. I still wanted to make more records. I wanted to track the journey from nothingness back to creation in musical form in a set of three albums and rock bottom was the perfect
place to start from. There’s nothing to fake down here! It’s a dark and beautiful and pure cave to create something truthful from. The first album in the trilogy is Mansion
Songs.”
– Ethan Miller on the making of Mansion Songs
Photo by Alissa Anderson
Howlin Rain
Mansion Songs
(Easy Sound)
Street Date: Jan. 27, 2015
Formats: LP / Digital / CD
1. Big Red Moon
2. Meet Me In The Wheat
3. Coliseum
4. The New Age
5. Wild Bush
6. Restless
7. Lucy Fairchild
8. Ceiling Fan