Celebrate Halloween in the Trailer Park with Antsy McClain & the Trailer Park Troubadours!

“Antsy McClain is a rising star on the American folk scene.” - The London Times

Like a surreal Norman Rockwell painting come to life, McClain is the embodiment of the small-town, blue-collar life he experienced growing up in a little Kentucky trailer park called Pine View Heights. The characters and characteristics he witnessed in Pine View Heights made an indelible impression on the young artist in training. He grew into a first-rate songwriter, incredible visual artist and insightful humorist. You’ve heard his music on radio stations across the country, NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “Car Talk,” in motion pictures, television shows, and at festivals and concerts from San Francisco to London, England.

Antsy and the Troubs are celebrating the release of their most recent CD, The Sun Sessions, recorded at the legendary Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. Antsy was honored to record in the very same room where artists like Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, U2, Bruce Springsteen have recorded some of the most well-know songs in history.

Antsy McClain’s live shows with the Troubadours are a unique mix of masterful musicianship, self-deprecating humor and intelligent lyrics. A glimpse of his song titles offers a tantalizing look into McClain’s wry blend of humor and emotional depth. He can make his audience laugh and even cry—sometimes in a single song. Humor and pathos in songwriting is a rare and magical combination.

With broad musical influences from Aretha Franklin, Steely Dan, Bill Monroe, Buck Owens, Jim Croce and Dr. Demento, McClain blends rock, soul and country into a single voice. McClain has worked on farms, factories, restaurants and classrooms. He's been an artist, a teacher, a tour guide, and a Japanese interpreter. He started taking his guitar with him on the road when he worked for the Japanese auto industry in the late 1980's. It was then that he first began writing about life as he knew it; in a small American trailer park.

Wildly independent and fiercely creative, Antsy McClain is staking his claim on pop culture. His plot may not be huge, but he’s mining it deep, uncovering little musical gems that reflect the joy and complexities of modern day life in America. It sounds like he hit pay dirt.

For more information, please visit www.unhitched.com and www.antsy.net

“If I didn’t love him {Antsy} so much, I’d hate him! The kid’s far too good!” - Tommy Smothers

21+
Doors open 6:30 PM / Show 7:30 PM
Tickets $18 adv / $21 door