New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Rising from the fertile ground of the Denver country gospel scene, Slim Cessna's Auto Club fever-drenched sound is steeped in the finest Pentecostal raving of a vengeful God and straining toward an unlikely redemption.
The band are announcing two monster tours, first with the Legendary Shack Shakers, followed by a tour with The Bellrays that takes them across North America. They will say farewell to Colorado March 5th, with a show in Ft Collins with Murder by Death.
As Allmusic wrote, " Slim's the main singer here, his half-crazed voice like one of a man who's been pushed too far one too many times . . ." while allowing that "There's a dark liveliness, a rebelliousness to the music, one that Slim Cessna has always exhibited, shown not only in the lyrics and vocal inflection but in the instrumentation, which is sprawling and tight at the same time, electric and acoustic, and the entire effect of which is absolutely captivating."
SCAC w/ Murder By Death
2/5/2020 Fort Colllins CO Washington's
SCAC & Legendary Shack Shakers
3/19/2020 Nashville TN
Little Harpeth Brewery & Taproom
3/20/2020 Louisville KY Headliner's
Music Hall
3/21/2020 Durham NC The Pinhook
3/22/2020 Asheville NC The Mothlight
3/23/2020 Atlanta GA EARL
3/24/2020
Charlotte NC Snug Harbor
3/25/2020 Jacksonville FL Jack Rabbits
3/26/2020 Lake Worth FL Propaganda
3/27/2020 Cocoa FL The Crying Monk
3/28/2020 Orlando FL Will's Pub
3/29/2020 Ybor City FL Crowbar
3/31/2020 New Orleans LA
Santos Bar
4/1/2020 Austin TX Antone's Nightclub
4/2/2020
Houston TX White Oak Upstairs Stage
4/3/2020 Dallas TX Gas Monkey Bar & Grill
4/4/2020 Tulsa OK Mercury Lounge
SCAC & The Bellrays
5/14/2020 Denver CO Oriental Theater
5/15/2020 Wichita KS Barleycorn's
5/16/2020 Kansas City MO Record Bar
5/17/2020 St. Louis MO Off Broadway Night Club
5/19/2020 Columbus OH Ace Of Cups
5/20/2020 Pittsburgh PA Club Cafe
5/21/2020 Philadelphia PA Johnny Brenda's
5/22/2020 Washington DC City Winery DC-Wine Garden
5/23/2020 Baltimore MD The Metro Gallery
5/24/2020 Brooklyn NY 66th Congress
5/25/2020 Allston MA Brighton
Music Hall
5/27/2020 New
Haven CT Cafe Nine
5/28/2020 Montreal L'Esco
5/29/2020 Hamilton ON This Ain't Hollywood
5/30/2020 Ottawa ON Club SAW
5/31/2020 Toronto ON Horseshoe Tavern
6/2/2020 Waterloo ON Starlight Club
6/3/2020 Cleveland OH Beachland Tavern
6/4/2020
Detroit MI El Club
6/5/2020
Chicago IL Subterranean
6/6/2020 Green Bay WI Lyric Room
6/7/2020 Minneapolis MN 7th Street Entry
6/9/2020 Winnipeg MB Pyramid Cabaret
6/11/2020 Edmonton AB Starlite - Temple Room
6/12/2020 Calgary AB Palomino
6/14/2020 Vancouver BC The Biltmore Cabaret
6/16/2020 Bellingham WA The Shakedown
6/17/2020 Seattle WA Funhouse
6/18/2020 Portland OR Mississippi Studios
6/19/2020 San Francisco CA The Chapel
6/20/2020 Los Angeles CA Echoplex
6/21/2020 San
Diego CA Casbah
The Auto Club and 16 Horsepower also share a love for fevered country gospel. But unlike Edwards' severe, Pentecostal-inspired sound, Cessna and company exude more joy and openheartedness. Sure, there lurk dark echoes of Deliverance in the bounding banjo of "This Is How We Do Things in the Country," from 2004's The Bloudy Tenent Truth & Peace. But its a stylized darkness that allows room for both zealotry and playful, tongue-in-cheek commentary. - Cleveland Scene
Familiar Americana musical tropes shift like quicksand, revealing lyrics that sound like they were written at the height of a fever (or whatever.) - No Depression
Are they reaching out to the punk rockers with the hand of salvation, or are they coaxing the devout into the black pit, cloaked with the shrouds of His music? Could the two frontmen be at cross-purposes themselves, playing chicken with the other's eternal soul? - Punk News
