Duck Club Presents đ´ Milwaukee-based folk favorites Dead Horses are swingin' back into town on Wed. 11/14 -- show at The Olympic with Benjamin Jaffe (of HONEYHONEY) and local duo Fulton & Hunt. $12 tickets on sale now!
Wednesday, November 14th Dead Horses with Benjamin Jaffe and Fulton & Hunt THE OLYMPIC $12 / $15 7pm
At fifteen, Dead Horses frontwoman Sarah Vosâ world turned upside down. Raised in a strict, fundamentalist home, Vos lost everything when she and her family were expelled from the rural Wisconsin church where her father had long served as pastor. What happened next is the story of Dead Horsesâ stunning new album, âMy Mother the Moon,â a record full of trauma and triumph, despair and hope, pain and resilience.
Blending elements of traditional roots with contemporary indie folk, the album is both familiar and unexpected, unflinchingly honest in its portrayal of modern American life, yet optimistic in its unshakable faith in brighter days to come. Earthy and organic, Vosâ songs often reveal themselves to be exercises in empathy and outreach; she writes not only to find meaning in the struggles sheâs endured, but also to embrace kindred souls on their own personal journeys of self-discovery.
âMy Mother the Moonâ is Dead Horsesâ third album, which NPR Music has described as âevocative, empathetic storytelling" and Rolling Stone has called "a beautifully uncluttered collection of songs,â earning Dead Horses a spot in the latterâs â10 New Country Artists You Need To Know in 2018â list. No Depression relates Vosâ âaching, haunting vocals and tales of working-class men and womenâ to âlullabies sung to the lonely and lostâ, and has already cited the album as one of the âBest Roots Albums of 2018 (So Far)â.
