![]() Most of the brief set was material from the new disc, including the modified shuffle “Motorkid” and the presumed single “Eyes on the Ceiling.” With its twisting, modal guitar line prominent, as well as its droning melody distinctly unrootsy, Droge is expanding his palette nicely without ceding any ground in the hooks department. Yet singer/songwriter Droge, an interesting by product of the Northwest grunge scene who has sometimes been compared to Tom Petty, is fortunate to possess well. Set closer, “Please the Ghost,” broke into a lengthy jam over one chord, the hallmark of psych freakouts that date all the way back to the genre’s granddaddy, Paul Butterfield’s “East-West.” But unlike the auteur of that hoary ’60s FM masterpiece, Droge and band are not improvisers. Pete Droge, to me, feels like he should be from Minnesota. ![]() When they keep it short and sweet, even the head music works best. Perhaps I am confusing him with Paul Westerberg, who actually was from Minnesota, and whose sound is more poppy than Pete’s countrified ditties. And, in fact, Pete has a unique and lovely scratchy Tom-Petty-meets-Jakob-Dylan-like voice. He has also played with Don Henley, Sarah McLachlan, Pete Droge. Droge is still deeply rooted in the tradition of storytelling songwriters, and the foray into noisy swirl gives his new music an interesting set of colors, but is hardly the meat of the matter.
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