A married couple splitting one drum kit and two guitars between them, switching instruments mid-set, is a setup that would be a gimmick if the songs were weaker. They are not. Two decades of writing together has produced a catalog about marriage, money, and the road that is unusually unsentimental about all three, delivered in harmonies that go sour on purpose at the right moments. Live it is louder and rougher than the records and the between-song exchanges are genuinely funny in the way that only people who have spent that many hours in a van together can be. High desert saloon, Sunday night, wood and warmth and a patio with a real sky over it. Music at 9:00 PM in Pioneertown. Sunday shows out here draw the people who live in the Morongo Basin rather than the weekend crowd, and it is a better room for it.
A married couple splitting one drum kit and two guitars between them, switching instruments mid-set, is a setup that would be a gimmick if the songs were weaker. They are not. Two decades of writing together has produced a catalog about marriage, money, and the road that is unusually unsentimental about all three, delivered in harmonies that go sour on purpose at the right moments. Live it is louder and rougher than the records and the between-song exchanges are genuinely funny in the way that only people who have spent that many hours in a van together can be. High desert saloon, Sunday night, wood and warmth and a patio with a real sky over it. Music at 9:00 PM in Pioneertown. Sunday shows out here draw the people who live in the Morongo Basin rather than the weekend crowd, and it is a better room for it.
A married couple splitting one drum kit and two guitars between them, switching instruments mid-set, is a setup that would be a gimmick if the songs were weaker. They are not. Two decades of writing together has produced a catalog about marriage, money, and the road that is unusually unsentimental about all three, delivered in harmonies that go sour on purpose at the right moments. Live it is louder and rougher than the records and the between-song exchanges are genuinely funny in the way that only people who have spent that many hours in a van together can be. High desert saloon, Sunday night, wood and warmth and a patio with a real sky over it. Music at 9:00 PM in Pioneertown. Sunday shows out here draw the people who live in the Morongo Basin rather than the weekend crowd, and it is a better room for it.