Sean Cronin’s Gory Dove / Kyle Morgan
Refund Policy: No refunds
Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm
In the early 1990s when Nirvana played Leadbelly, and Beck played Mississippi John Hurt, folk music made an attempt to hulk along in a new direction on the back of mainstream slacker-rock. Without realizing it, Sean Cronin has picked up that thread with his current band, Gory Dove. Somewhere between his love of jug band music, angular chord changes, and lyrics about small town absurdism, Cronin landed on a sound that seems to belong with the folk-curious grunge pioneers of his youth. Add detuned twelve string guitar, bass sax, pump organ, calf skin drums and you have music unlike any you’ve heard before. This is Cronin’s first return to Jalopy with his original music for the first time since Very Good’s album release in 2019 (Gory Dove being an anagram of Very Good).
Kyle Morgan is a Brooklyn-based songwriter originally from Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, where he grew up singing with his family at church and home. With influences ranging from the classic roots music of the Carter Family and Hank Williams to more modern artists like Thom Yorke and Rufus Wainwright, Kyle sings songs of spiritual longing, struggle and redemption in an earnest tenor voice. He released three albums in the twenty-teens under the name Starcrossed Losers. In 2022, his latest record, Younger at Most Everything, came out on Team Love Records under his own name.