Trinity House Theatre

Timothy Monger w/ Bone Orchard Revival

As one-third of a team of songwriters in Michigan's eclectic rock group The Great Lakes Myth Society guitarist/vocalist Timothy Monger gained national attention with two stellar releases on the Brooklyn, NY label Telegraph Company. He founded the band with his older brother Jamie in 1996.

During breaks from the band, Monger continued to perform solo acoustic shows as he had been doing since the age of 16. With the excess of personal material that comes from working within a multi-songwriter band, he began to lay down tracks for a solo album in his spare time. Producing Summer Cherry Ghosts and playing a bulk of the instruments himself, Monger has arranged a dense pop record filled with lush strings, vocal harmonies, sound effects and hooks around every corner.

At once angels' trumpets and devils' trombones, Bone Orchard Revival's Jeni Lee Richey and Adam M. Arscott deliver olde-time country, gospel and blues-influenced songs steeped in love, loss, desire and delicious strangers. The two were bound by fate in early 2007, and the musical curiosities poured forth like yesterday's wine.

The listener will swoon with that familiar glow as undertones and influences rear their heads, from the Carter Family to Gillian Welch, Townes van Zandt to Tom Waits, Janis Joplin to Willie Nelson, the strings of Nashville to the line workers of Detroit.

Trinity House Theatre

June 20, 2008

8:00pm
$12, $9 for members

www.myspace.com/timothymonger
www.myspace.com/boneorchardrevival

“Monger gives the music space to breathe, letting melodies, lyrics, and sounds linger in the mind long after they've finished. All these little details, in the recording and the writing, form an album that's lovely, intimate, affecting, and quite addictive.” – All Music Guide