Blind Pilot
With Gregory Alan Isakov.
Indie-folk has exploded in recent years, thanks in no small part to bands like Blind Pilot. The Astoria, Oregon, natives (home of The Goonies, by the way — never say die!) have been at it since 2005, playing a blend of contemporary indie rock with folk and Americana. Their most recent album, And Then Like Lions, was released in 2016 on alt-country stalwart ATO Records. With Gregory Alan Isakov.
$45-$25.
press release: And Then Like Lions upbeat song "Packed Powder" reached #6 on the AAA radio charts, a career charting high for Blind Pilot. A song filled with elevated textures of guitar hooks and trumpet, it comes from an idea Nebeker had as a teenager when he and his friends found they could re-pack fireworks to different outcomes.
"Packed Powder" by Blind Pilot
"We're all made of the same stuff, but who knows how we're packed and what we'll show as we burn across the black sky of our own time?" thought Nebeker. "The song speaks lightheartedly of ironic outcomes when trying to better a life through different career paths, and then sings a chorus that surrenders and desires life to reveal what we are made of."