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The Henry Clay People is a rock band from California, fronted by two brothers, Joey and Andy Siara. They formed five years ago, and in that time have released three studio albums, so writing music seems to comes easy for the brothers.
We were lucky enough to have them stop by on tour with Drive-By Truckers on Thursday, September 30th, at First Avenue, in Minneapolis. Since the show that night was relatively an early show, The Henry Clay People started around 7pm and played for about an hour.
The setlist was a full set with some banters in-between the songs (Joey did most of the talking it seems). He joked about the Twins, who were playing baseball across the street, and he mentioned that Andy cracked his ribs in Virginia.
As for the music, they seem to be heavily influenced by late 70s rock epic songs. So pretty heavy and noisy, the slowest they got was "Rock and Roll Has Lost Its Teeth", which I'm pretty sure they changed the lyrics from "facist kids with safety pins" to "vicious kids with safety pins".
I did try and check out more of the band's music, ended up streaming most of their new album, Somewhere on the Golden Coast on their official website. As a bonus, you can get "Slow Burn" as a free download from their website.
If you live in Minneapolis and missed The Henry Clay People this time around, the good news is that they're going to come back to a more smaller and intimate venue of 7th Street Entry on the 20th of October.
Below is the rest of their full fall tour dates.
We were lucky enough to have them stop by on tour with Drive-By Truckers on Thursday, September 30th, at First Avenue, in Minneapolis. Since the show that night was relatively an early show, The Henry Clay People started around 7pm and played for about an hour.
The setlist was a full set with some banters in-between the songs (Joey did most of the talking it seems). He joked about the Twins, who were playing baseball across the street, and he mentioned that Andy cracked his ribs in Virginia.
As for the music, they seem to be heavily influenced by late 70s rock epic songs. So pretty heavy and noisy, the slowest they got was "Rock and Roll Has Lost Its Teeth", which I'm pretty sure they changed the lyrics from "facist kids with safety pins" to "vicious kids with safety pins".
I did try and check out more of the band's music, ended up streaming most of their new album, Somewhere on the Golden Coast on their official website. As a bonus, you can get "Slow Burn" as a free download from their website.
Below is the rest of their full fall tour dates.
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October 2 - St. Louis, MO - The Pageant* October 3 - Indianapolis, IN - The Vogue* October 4 - Louisville, KY - Zanzabar** October 5 - Akron, OH - Musica* October 6 - Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall* October 7 - Morgantown, WV - Mountainlair Ballroom* October 10 - Austin, TX - Austin City Limits October 12 - Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn** October 13 - Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506** October 14 - Washington, D.C. - Black Cat Backstage** October 15 - Philadelphia, PA - Kungfu Necktie** October 16 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge** October 17 - Cambridge, MA - TT The Bear's Place** October 19 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle** October 20 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th St Entry |
October 22 - Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge** October 23 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court** October 25 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile** October 26 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge** October 28 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill** October 29 - Los Angeles, CA - 2nd Annual Rock and Roll Circus @ The Echo & Echoplex*** *with Drive-By Truckers **Headlining ***with The Little Ones, Andy Clockwise, We Barbarians, The Monolators, The Dig & Downtown/Union |
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