Nathan Bowles Tour Dates:
Friday, October 5th – Cropped Out (Bill MacKay & Nathan Bowles duo), Louisville KY
Saturday, October 20th – Don’t Be Mean To People ACLU Benefit (Joe Westerlund & Nathan Bowles duo), Durham NC
TRIO DATES
Thursday, November 1st – The Cave (w/ David Nance Group), Chapel Hill NC
Tuesday, November 6th – Rhizome, Washington DC
Wednesday, November 7th – Jerry’s on Front, Philadelphia PA
Thursday, November 8th – Union Pool (w/ Steve Gunn & Little Black Egg), Brooklyn NY
Friday, November 9th – State House (w/ Weeping Bong Band), New Haven CT
Saturday, November 10th – Root Cellar (2-day Residency), Greenfield MA
Sunday, November 11th – Root Cellar (2-day Residency), Greenfield MA
Wednesday, November 14th – AMW, Pittsburgh PA
Thursday, November 15th – Dirty Dungarees, Columbus OH
Friday, November 16th – Elk City Records (w/ the Modock Rounders), Charleston WV
Saturday, November 17th – Rugfest, Blacksburg VA
Sunday, November 18th – NoDa House, Charlotte NC
Photo by Brad Bunyea.
ACCLAIM FOR PLAINLY MISTAKEN
“Like Coltrane, Bowles tears open a tiny piece of fabric in the folk music continuum to let in the cosmic debris.” – NPR Music
“Mixing a deep knowledge of regional folk traditions with a delight in modern composition, the banjo player and his exploratory new trio are delightfully suspended between earth and outer space. There’s something slightly mysterious under the surface, as though you’re watching him astral-project. The result is his best album to date—his most mystical and earthbound, all at once.” – Pitchfork
“I don’t think Nathan has ever ridden a dolphin, but I think if faced with the task he would cotton quick. That’s how I see his approach to his music.” – Bill Callahan
“Bowles has been stealthily releasing solo records of incremental potency and invention. This, the fourth, is his best yet, a mix of reimagined trad pieces, diverse covers… and elegantly rowdy jams. Bowles and his rhythm section find a groove comparable to Deutsche motorik, or Tuareg desert rock, adding a new thrust to their Appalachian trance-folk.” – MOJO
“8/10 stars; Americana Album of the Month. Much like his late friend Jack Rose, Bowles has devoted his creative life to expanding the dialogue between modernist iron and old-time mountain music. Whatever the setting, Bowles’ music is rarely less than seductive, the product of both a gifted multi-instrumentalist and restless cultural forager.” – Uncut
“The man has lost it here.” – The FADER
“Like much of the finest traditional music, Plainly Mistaken borders on the ecstatic and spiritual, but also knows when it’s time to hit the jug.” – Record Collector
“Experimental banjoist Nathan Bowles is a stalwart of the new Americana resurgence orbiting the Paradise of Bachelors label. He finds ways to apply classically rustic techniques to new frontiers of sound.” – Stereogum
“He takes some of the oldest instruments known to humanity and wields them in ways that both evoke the past and challenge their future roles in pop and roots music. An important addition to the canon of bluegrass and roots music.” – No Depression
