DigsREX CDOD at FloydFest 5!
This was an incredible festival. Lots of great acts and some memorable moments for sure.
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Set List:
- 1.) Tawdry Town
- 2.) The Quitter
- 3.) Banks of the Ohio
- 4.) Surf Song
- 5.) Keep Truckin
- 6.) Folsum Prison
- 7.) Blue
- 8.) I sleep Alone
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Artist Bio:
American Dumpster, as the name suggests, is a recycling movement for ideas. Singer and principal songwriter Christian Breeden brings to the group a musical, lyrical, and cultural aesthetic inspired by a life in the junkyard. His family home just outside Charlottesville, Virginia is a curious nexus where art, agriculture, industry, and intellect merge in the most unpredictable ways. The Breeden farm is home not only to Biscuit Run Studios, a sculpture studio and long-standing institution in the Virginia art scene, but also to an extensive collection of assorted machinery, instruments, and found art. As a result, art has always been, for Christian, a recycling movement of sorts; welding a Mercedes-Benz grill onto the front of a school bus, for example, or crafting a “Big Iron Head” out of a junked VW Beetle forces familiar items into unfamiliar contexts in which those items can be reinvented.
American Dumpster treats music in a similar manner. American Dumpster’s original songs combine elements of ancient and modern folk songs with the greatest aspects of country, blues, and rock. With the influence of five musicians of varied backgrounds, American Dumpster’s songs have come to life in ways even the songwriter sometimes could not have anticipated. In “Blue,” for example, one of Christian’s collaborations with guitarist Andrew Ewell, Christian references the old murder ballads with the classic trope, “I wish to the Lord that I’d never been born, / Or at least have died when I was a baby.” Later in the song, as the narrator contemplates more modern escapes, he says, “I could sign up to crab the Bering Sea, / Or work high-tension lines in Hurricane Alley. / I could dig graves for the Army in the Middle East, / Anything to keep from waking here in the morning.” Elsewhere in American Dumpster’s songs are humor, remorse, vengeance, zeal, pride, passion, and heartbreak: “Feel the phantom pain from the limb you pushed away. / There’s a void there now and it’s shaped just like me.” The moods of these songs range from ruminative to ironic, from rebellious to reverent, and often demonstrate a rare and profound generosity of spirit.
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