Sun 8/29 @ 7:30PM
Musician Tim Easton has had a nomadic life, with a youth spent living in Japan as well as Akron. He moved to Columbus to attend The Ohio State University in the mid ’80s, where he hooked up with garage-country band the Haynes Boys in the mid-late ’90s when the alternative country thing was in full swing. That band released a single album and broke up by the end of the decade.
Easton drifted for a while, performing as a street musician in Europe, living in New York, Los Angeles and Joshua Tree and eventually settling down in Nashville with a backlog of experiences to turn into tunes. Since then he’s released nine studio albums of his country-tinged folk pop, the most recent, 2018’s Paco & the Melodic Polaroids, named after his Gibson J-45 guitar “Paco,” which he bought in Columbus in 1987. It provides the musical accompaniment on the stripped-down acoustic album, which was recorded direct to lacquer in old-school single-take style at the Earnest Tube, a Bristol, Virginia-based facility co-founded by Cleveland mastering engineer Clint Holley III. The album has another northeast Ohio connection as well; the vinyl disc was pressed in Cleveland at Gotta Groove Recording.
Easton is back in Ohio to perform at Lorain County’s Riverdog Retreat. Tickets are $22 and should be ordered and prepaid in advance. Go here to get them.