Local singer-songwriter Christopher Keener has led psychedelic country crew the Keener Family since 2015. After posting occasional demos on Bandcamp, in November the band dropped two tracks from their first full-length, Tender Beast, which Keener calls a “critique of my past experience with abuse, abandonment, and being ‘too sensitive,’ and how those experiences can push me to be a stronger man and a more present, accepting father and partner.” Lead single “Raised on the Roar” is filled with swirling, shoegazy twang (the band half-jokingly call their music “bootgaze”), and when Keener sings with his wife, Aubrey Ann Howard, they sound like Bill Callahan and Emmylou Harris. On Wednesday, December 18, the Keener Family play a release show at the Empty Bottle.
Snaketime: The Music of Moondog by Dustin Laurenzi
