Big Trouble Back at It on Saturday With an Exciting Amount of New Songs

I’m in a forward thinking, backward looking instrumental quartet called Big Trouble. We are a side project that started while George W. Bush was President and we’re still going today. Spicy. And frankly, we are hitting a nice pace. We play once a monthat at the White Squirrel and we are staying true to bringing new sounds to the stage every month. We aren’t sitting on our non-existent laurels. The busiest writer in our band is my brother Steve who plays guitar. He gives lessons, he consumes a bunch of music and he has a really good sense of what popular songs can be a point of departure for a longer exploration. Very thankful for that. It was cool to see our other guitar player, Josh Peterson, drop some ideas into the email chain. Josh is full of ideas, but he isn’t frequently an idea starter. But he brought in an absolutely thrilling Lookbook tune called “My Darkness”. I adored Lookbook. Minnesota duo, rising stars circa 2008 but I think had fizzled by 2010. Spectacular writing from Grant Cutler and Maggie Morrison and magical, enthralling vocals from Maggie Morrison. One of those voices that is so full of amazing power and technique but also so honest and pure, never sounds music schooly. Unbelievable. We are doing some cool shit with that tune. Josh also threw us a left curve and suggested “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” from Marvin Gaye. I didn’t expect that one, but we found some good stuff in it. Swing through, enjoy some instrumental music this fine weekend! This Saturday 6-8p!