Jeffrey Martin

About this event

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On a small corner lot in southeast Portland, Oregon, Jeffrey Martin holed up through the winter recording his quietly potent new album Thank God We Left The Garden. Long nights bled into mornings in the tiny shack he built in the backyard, eight feet by ten feet. What began as demos meant for a later visit to a proper studio became the album itself, spare and intimate and true. Recorded live and alone around two microphones, Jeffrey often held his breath to wait for the low diesel hum of a truck to pass one block over on the busy thoroughfare.During the coldest nights, he timed recording between the clicks of the oil coil heater cycling on and off. Martin's fourth full length album, Thank God We Left The Garden comes out on Portland's beloved Fluff andGravy Records.He produced and engineered it himself, recalling, "There was a magic quality to thesounds I was getting in the shack with these two cheap microphones, some lucky recipe of time and place that allowed my voice and the way I play guitar and the shape of these new songs to come together with the kind ofhonesty I was craving."So much has happened in the world since the release of his previous album One Go Around (heralded by No Depression as 'the poetry of America'), and Jeffrey has filled the time doggedly, but happily, touring the US andEurope, watching it all unfold in a stream of small town conversations and city sprawl. In a moment where depth is so often traded for the instantaneous, where tech billionaires are building rockets to escape the planet, wherethe dead-eyed stare of artificial intelligence is promising to existentially upend our world, and where divisiveness in our culture is breeding delusional levels of certainty, Jeffrey Martin's new record feels like anhopeful and fully human antidote.           + Support: TENDERNESS Tenderness is the solo project of Katy Beth Young. (Peggy Sue, Deep Throat Choir) She writes strange love songs about romance, grief and re-read text messages. She's been listening to a lot of Patsy Cline & a lot of Yo La Tengo, Big Thief, Wye Oak & Bill Callahan. It turns out all of her favourite bands are a little bit country.