Drunken Prayer
Menacing Americana• $10 Cover At Door
Morgan Geer is the American singer/songwriter/guitarist behind Drunken Prayer, writing & performing songs which transcend the bounds of Americana and that could have emerged from a highly blissed-out biker bar or a swampy ashram.
Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family calls Geer “the real thing—a songwriter with a heart as deep as the Mariana Trench and as sensitive as the wet hands of a raccoon”. Writing in CREEM Magazine, Robert Duncan says that “Drunken Prayer is Americana in the sense that America is a place of menace, hybrid vigor and unending strangeness”.
The new Drunken Prayer record, Thy Burdens, is an homage to the fiery music of the church. Partnering with Drive-By Truckers’ Bobby Matt Patton, the pair recorded this album in North Mississippi with some of their friends from Appalachia and the Delta including members of MJ Lenderman & the Wind, Band of Heathens, Jimbo Mathis’ group and Wednesday.
Other recent Drunken Prayer releases are 2022’s The Name Of The Ghost Is Home, which Geer worked on from his home studio with Paul Oldham (Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Royal Trux), building on tracks initially recorded in New Mexico at Empty House Studios. The end result evokes an ominous acid Western feedback-and-driftwood aesthetic. 2019’s acclaimed LP Cordelia Elsewhere, mixed by Mitch Easter (Let’s Active, REM) and the ambitious 17 minute long death-raga, Electric Daddyland from 2021.
Drunken Prayer has played hundreds of shows across 18 countries and across the US at venues including the Newport Folk Festival, Pickathon and San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall. Geer’s music has been featured on AMC, NPR, WFMU and SiriusXM.
On the side, Geer is the lead guitar player for alt-country goths Freakwater and writes for different artists including the Brooklyn rock-and-soul phenom Bette Smith. He has also been touring internationally, opening for and often joining the eccentric Handsome Family.
Morgan has since recorded and toured with some of the cornerstones of modern Americana music, and Drunken Prayer is now a stalwart of the burgeoning scene in Asheville, NC.
Music 8:30-11:30pm $10 cover at the door.
