{"id":92384,"date":"2019-10-01T19:36:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T19:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/talented-musical-expeditionaries-perform-in-dolores\/"},"modified":"2019-10-01T19:36:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T19:36:58","slug":"talented-musical-expeditionaries-perform-in-dolores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/talented-musical-expeditionaries-perform-in-dolores\/","title":{"rendered":"Talented musical expeditionaries perform in Dolores"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=49622d24-36f4-4478-9f3c-f765f9dfdc59&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1597\" alt=\"Matt Lorenz, of the one-man band Suitcase Junket, will perform at the Dolores River Brewery Oct. 5.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Matt Lorenz, of the one-man band Suitcase Junket, will perform at the Dolores River Brewery Oct. 5.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The folk-blues fusion of Suitcase Junket and singer-songwriter Carsie Blanton will fill the music hall of the Dolores River Brewery Oct. 5 beginning at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The talented duo are bona fide musical expeditionaries on a journey across America.<\/p>\n<p>Singer-songwriter Matt Lorenz is the multi-instrumentalist of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesuitcasejunket.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Suitcase Junket<\/a>, performing folk, blues fusion, and psychedelic rock. The Amherst Massachusetts-based artist recently released the album \u201cMean Dog, Trampoline,\u201d produced by Steve Berlin, of Los Lobos, who also produced guitar legend Leo Kottke\u2019s music.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenz\u2019s writing and guitar romp around topics ranging from moonshine  to runaway kites, according to his website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carsieblanton.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carsie Blanton<\/a> will join him on stage, and she also has an original musical pedigree. She left her home in Luray, Virginia, at 16, and has toured the U.S., Europe, and Australian with Paul Simon, The Wood Brothers and others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI write great songs, and I cover great songs that I love,\u201d she says on her website.<\/p>\n<p>She describes her latest album, \u201cBuck Up\u201d as \u201ca hopeful, funny album about devastation and dread.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rolling Stone said the album \u201ctackles gender expectations, genre norms, societal expectations and sex through songs that are as smart and funny as they are well constructed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suitcase Junket and Carsie Blanton on musical journey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5738,5849,5740,5736,5735,5741],"tags":[21,5334,13,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-92384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cortez","category-folk-music","category-frontpage-lead","category-local-news","category-news","category-newsletter","tag-cortez","tag-folk-music","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92384"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=92384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}