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Saturday, June 24, 2023

NAT MYERS :: YELLOW PERIL (NEW ALBUM - OUT NOW!)

 The new album from Nat Myers is finally here y’all! Go get cha copy! 

 Now I LOVE this young man’s style and singin’ slinging n a-playin' geetar! So here’s his new album, head on over to Bandcamp and getcha'll sum!

“I’m always searching,” says the Korean-American blues poet Nat Myers. “Itinerancy is something that I’ve owned. I’ve done a lot of traveling, but lately it’s started to seep into my songwriting and my music. Life just feels simpler on the road. You’re just trying to get to the next place in one piece.” His debut album, Yellow Peril, is full of jumpy blues songs about hopping trains, burning up highways, running from some danger but also running toward something harder to define and even harder to catch. Full of intelligence and soul, contradiction and nuance, these songs reflect his restlessness and wanderlust in their fleet riffs, complex rhythms, and quick tempos, as he draws from a variety of stylistic strains and historical threads to weave a complex epic about life in post-pandemic America. 

Myers’ story starts in Kansas, but quickly moves to West Tennessee and then Northern Kentucky. Even as a child, he was a restless spirit: “I had a rowdy little childhood. My parents signed me up against my will to play in the school band, but I hated it. I pulled a Who on my trumpet and just destroyed it.” Instead, he spent his days skateboarding and listening to pop-punk and hardcore. “My mom got me a left-handed starter guitar, just trying to keep me away from the riffraff I was hanging out with. I kept hanging out with them...  more

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released June 23, 2023 

Nat Myers is a folk and blues poet musician from Kenton county, Kentucky.



Nat Myers - Pray For Rain

This is as close as lil Gnat gets to a hit single in these here parts . . . . . .sending this out to all couples everywhere

My good wife, my son and daughter and their partnos

yesirree Bob!

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