The deep roots-country and “scorch-folk” of Hogan and Moss and the Old Weird America will fill the room at Society Hall on Saturday, Nov. 15.
Jon Hogan and Maria Moss and The Old Weird America play original songs and soulful covers that will move your heart and your feet. Songs by Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, Blaze Foley, the families Carter and Cash, become cowpunk two-steps, swingy minor blues or trancey desert ballads with a side of Primitive Modernist mountain scorch.
If you go
Who: Hogan and Moss at Society Hall
When: Saturday, Nov. 15, at 7 p.m.
Where: Society Hall, 400 Ross Ave. in Alamosa
Tickets: $20
He sings lead. She plays it. Their band name honors the iconic book about Dylan by rock critic Greil Marcus, who gave them his blessing to use it. Jon and Maria will be joined by “East Side Flash” on dobro, accordion and keyboards.
Hogan and Moss played a set at the Society Hall annual celebration last year and the Society Hall board wanted to invite them back to do a whole evening on their own. They are also no strangers to the San Luis Valley, having played at Wildwood Sounds and other venues around the area and have traveled, tramped and camped in the Valley for years.
Their endless touring takes them all over the western United States, bringing their high-energy folk music to delighted audiences wherever they roam. Their deep catalog of old country and folk tunes is augmented by their excellent originals, all delivered with their trademark energy and enthusiasm.
“Not only are Jon and Maria and their band fabulous performers and fine songwriters, they are also in many ways historians and a walking archive of American country, roots and folk music, keeping the music of iconic but sometimes forgotten writers and performers alive and in circulation. And they do it all with an energy that will keep you alive too,” says Don Richmond, Society Hall board member.