Actual Wolf – Third Tuesday Residency

Actual Wolf – Third Tuesday Residency
8pm

The concept of Nashville, TN musician Actual Wolf has evolved from ‘man’ to ‘band’. Besides Pollard, the effort now includes collaborators Steve Garrington, Jacob Hanson and Jeremy Hanson, and ‘Actual Wolf’ finds them fully enmeshed and luxuriant in their synergy together. Produced by Alan Sparhawk and mixed by Erik Koskinen, Actual Wolf comfortably demonstrates the timelessness of meticulous studio technique. Layered vocals and rich, tube-driven guitars lend a warm patina not out of place resting in a battered sleeve in a dusty record bin. Complex harmonies soar and shimmer, to hang like restless hawks in the thermals above the rich, earthy loam of Pollard’s effortless working class poeticism.

In these songs, angels and devils mingle in neutral territory, and stubborn optimism burns life’s accumulated disappointment as fuel. This is the sound of a New Americana: an accretion of influences as rich, dense and multicolored as a bed of living coral. Using ragged and tattered maps drawn by the weary, troubled troubadours of eras past, Actual Wolf navigates the freshly paved highways of the contemporary palette.

The Uptown
1928 Telegraph Ave
Oakland, CA

21+
Free Entry