It’s on this foundation that Matt Douglas can layer saxophone, keys, and additional guitar. Peter Huges cooks up punk inflected bass lines that sing and slither through Darnielle’s strumming. Their dynamite rhythm section is led by Jon Wurster, famed drummer of Superchunk and beloved fixture on “The Best Show,” who brings real rock n’ roll muscle to the kit. But as Bob Dylan will tell you, you can’t be a man with an acoustic guitar forever-though, like Dylan, Darnielle does make space for a few solo numbers to appease the diehards.Ĭannily, Darnielle has surrounded himself with exactly the right players that give his songs the might they wield on the page. In fact, the first Mountain Goats song began its life as a poem that Darnielle married to a chord progression worked out on a $30 Hawaiian guitar. He’s published three works of fiction and notched himself a National Book Award nom for his debut novel. Darnielle is a writer first and a rock star second. It may sound crass but musicianship is mostly trivial to the Mountain Goats fan experience Mountain Goats songs are often more about their lyrics than what’s playing behind them. What this band will sound like on stage depends on when you see them.
Following this period, and barring a few conceptual swings here and there, their sound drifted amiably between jangle pop, literary soft-rock, and ska-inflected indie. įor the first ten years of their existence the Mountain Goats were exclusively a lo-fi enterprise: just Darnielle, his acoustic guitar, and a Panasonic RX-FT500 boom-box with recording functionality into which he sang beguilingly emotional and catchy folk tunes. They even had a viral hit with a dance and everything. Steven Colbert, John Green, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Rian Johnson are fans and friends. Why isn’t John Darnielle more famous? His band The Mountain Goats have been consistently releasing material since the early 90s, inking big-name indie record deals and recruiting a small army to his tribe all the while.
The Mountain Goats at Citizens House of Blues
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