Song:Roscoe
Album:The Trials of Van Occupanther
Midlake is a 70s folk rock influenced band from Texas. This kind of music as categorized these days as Lo-Fi. They have had success touring mostly in Europe. Midlake are from Denton, TX. They formed in 1999 at the University of North Texas College of Music. They were all jazz students. The lineup was Tim Smith on vocals and guitars, McKenzie Smith on drums, Paul Alexander on bass, Eric Nichelson on guitar and Evan Jacobs on keyboards. They called themselves The Cornbread All Stars and they played Herbie Hancock influenced fusion. Tim Smith started writing songs influenced by Jethro Tull and other progressive rock groups. Jacobs left and Nichelson replaced him on keyboards. Guitarist Eric Pulido joined. A 2001 EP got them a record deal with the British label Bella Union owned by Simon Raymonde of The Cocteau Twins. Roscoe is from the 2006 album The trials of Van Occupanther. By this time Midlake's sound is probably closer to 70s classic rock than jazz. The Courage of Others was released in 2010. They started working on a new album and they were so unhappy with it that Tim Smith left and formed a new band Harp. Pulido took over as lead singer for the 2013 album Antiphon. They also added Jesse Chandler on keyboards and Joey McClellan on guitar. And they signed a US record deal with Dave Matthews' ATO label. Midlake went on hiatus after that. Pulido formed the supergroup BNQT with Fran Healy of Travis, Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand, Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses and Jason Lytle of Grandaddy. They released an album in 2017 and toured. They are talking about recording a second album. Pulido released a solo album in 2019. Paul Alexander released a solo album in 2018. I saw on their Facebook page they posted some recording studio pics. It looks like Midlake is working on new music. Here's the video for Roscoe by Midlake.
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