Kamloops trio Devon Coyote will explore their blues rock side on their new album “the Wind” and current tour which brings them back to the Owl Acoustic Lounge, April 11.
Frontman Devon Bjarnason, bassist D'Arcy Booth and drummer Rod Anderson are Lethbridge favourites who enjoy playing here, especially with new music in hand.
“We have this great bunch of songs we are excited to get out to people,” said Bjarnason.
They played Lethbridge a couple of weeks ago and gave the audience a taste of the new music.
“ We’ve played some of them before, but during the last show we held off playing them until the tour, so it will be the first time a lot of people have heard them. But a lot of the stuff they may have heard over the past eight months,” he continued.
“ This is a different record for us. It is definitely a blues rock record because we wanted it to reflect the direction were going in,” he continued adding they recorded most of it over 10 days in Kamloops and spent a few months touching it up in between tours.
Rather than recording the new CD right onto the ProTools computer program as they usually do , they recorded it onto tape first to get more of a raw feel.
“The Wind’ is also the first record focusing on Booth and Anderson.
“I’ve never been a band guy. Usually my records have been me and a bunch of my friends from Kamloops playing on it,” he said.
“ It feels great to record an album with my friends who I’ve been playing with for two years. We recorded the CD together so everybody feels a part of it,” he continued.
The tour for this record takes Devon Coyote all over the place.
“ We’re very excited to play a weekend there. We usually play a mid-week show,” he said.
They will concentrate on the Prairies and the B.C. interior then fly out to Eastern Canada to do a tour around there, then fly back to do another tour of the B.C. interior.
“ It will be an acoustic record which we plan to record in July though there will be some electric,” he said adding they will record most of it in July and touch it up as needed.
Devon Coyote play the Owl Acoustic Lounge, April 11 at 9:30 p.m.
