Hillstomp Past Live Appearances
Some of the shows we played, formerly sometimes known as Hill Stomp.
For upcoming concerts, see this other page.
FRIDAY * Jan 28th Dante's, Portland, OR. Moonshine Hangover CD Release Party! . with Devil Doll ][ see poster & read about moon shine in the paper
SATurday Jan 22nd at the Sippin'On Public House 45 Skipanon Dr, Warrenton OR 9-12 w' guest
Jan 15, 2005 with Dylan T Vance & Powerhouse Trio in Eugene at Wetlands Brew Pub, 922 Garfield St
Fri. 12/31/04 [ upstairs: CHERRY POPPIN’ DADDIES with Crazy 8’s and The New Iberians ] & In The Grill: HILLSTOMP [ thats us ] Ward Stroud Band, and Jesse Samsel & the Crosstown Traffic @ Roseland Theater & Grill
saturday December 4th The Rose City Round-Up at the Alberta Street Pub House ! Whiskey Puppy, Cross-Eyed Rosie, Moses Lincoln Johnson, Power of County, Juanita Family, Dickel Hometown Entertainers, Clampit, Gaddis & Buck, Flat Mt. Girls, Gov't Issue Orch, Gus & Kati and The Mighty Ghosts of Heaven. thanks to The Oregonian: A gathering of folk Portland has quite a collection of American roots and folk bands under its umbrella, and the bigger names happen to be gathering for six hours this weekend. Hosted by acoustic trio Clampitt, Gaddis & Buck (pictured), the Rose City Round-Up is a gathering of area favorites including Cross-Eyed Rosie, Hillstomp, Whiskey Puppy, the Juanita Family and the Flat Mountain Girls, but also includes visitors from California and Washington -- 11 bands in all. The event benefits the nonprofit conservation group Oregon Trout but is also sure to induct new fans into the lively Northwest folk community. 6 p.m. Saturday, Alberta Street Public House, 1036 N.E. Alberta St.; $5; 21 and older. 503-284-7665. poster
Saturday Nov 27th White Eagle Saloon, Lewi Longmire CD Release Party w/ Morgan Grace ][ see lewi's wilyweek article
SUN Nov 7th in Eugene with Lucero at Lucky's, 933 Olive Street, Eugene OR
Sat Nov 6 @ the Goodfoot Lounge, 2845 SE Stark, portland with Jackstraw !
Sunday October 31st Oregon Bus Project and Rock the Vote present Trick or Vote at Crystal Ballroom, Portland OR with The Retrofits, Woke Up Falling, Hip Hop Collaborative featuring Soul Plasma and Liv, March Fourth Marching Band, Art Alexakis with Friends
Friday October 29th Salt Lake City, Club Halo, 60 East 800 South, with Rick Gerber & Jason Sawyer of Tanglewood ][ show poster
Thursday October 28th Las Vegas NV -- Double Down Saloon with Skorchamenza ][ show poster ][ So, we played a show on Thursday night at the Double Down with HILLSTOMP, (thanks everyone for coming out and rocking with us). They are a Mississippi style blues duo from Portland, and let me just say that they bring the pain, and it's up to your ass to know what to do with it. I was completely blown away by their style, and grace on stage. The drummer played with a bass drum, some buckets, a metal bowl, and a wasboard among other things. If you want to see something truly original, check these guys out at www.hillstomp.com. Do yourself a favor, and let them know you like it, because they are d**n good. thanks guys, the wooden nickels are in the mail!
Wed Oct 27th Emerald Lounge, 1514 North 7th Ave, Phoenix AZ with The Dahmer Party and Absent Roy ][ show poster
Tuesday Oct 26th The Gypsy Lounge 23600 Rockfield, Lake Forest CA with AJ Roach and Rocco Deluca and Remedy Motel ][ show poster
Sunday Oct 24 Los Angeles at the echo 1822 sunset blvd. Concerts for Change A Redneck/Outlaw/Punk/Country-rock Hoedown and BBQ for Change ~ see the show poster along with: Thomas Bros, Merle Jagger, West Coast Grand, Blood on the Saddle, Shurman, & Groovy Rednecks
Friday Oct 22nd 8pm at A'Roma Roasters, Santa Rosa CA ][ show poster
Fri Oct 22nd morning KDVS 90.3 FM / kdvs.org in Davis on Cool As Folk with Cornelius
Fri Oct 22nd afternoon KRSH 95.9/95.5 FM Santa Rosa on Bill Bowker's show
Thur oct 21 at The Hotel Utah Saloon, 500 4th St @ Bryant, San Francisco with The New Black Trio and el Capitan ][ show poster
Wed Oct 20: opening for Split Lip Rayfield at John Henry's, 77 West Broadway, Eugene OR
Monday Oct 18th opening for Scott Biram at The Twilight Cafe, Portland
Sunday oct 17 Sunday Night Blues on KINK 102 FM portland
Sunday Oct 10 Lefty's in Salem OR with special guest Rollie Tussing
oct 5 sabalas, portland with The Texecutioners
thurs sept 30 East Bank Farmers Market ,pdx
wed sept 29 Scrapheap Soireé @ the White Eagle, 836 N. Russell, with Spigot and Jamie Stillway
Mt Hood Community College Mon sept 27
Friday September 10th with Dylan Thomas Vance at Sam Bonds Garage EUGENE
Fri September 3 opening for Michelle Malone at Nocturnal, 1800 E. Burnside, Portland.
Wed Sept 1 Forest Grove, OR at Pacific University
Friday Aug 27 PICKATHON 2004 at Hornings Hideout, North Plains OR ~ download show poster
Sunday August 22 Lefty's in Salem OR (1230 State St.) with Rollie Tussing
Saturday, August 21st Portland Saturday Market
Sunday August 15th The Bite of Oregon, Portland ` Everything Oregon Stage w/ Lauren Sheehan, Mike Dameron, and Delta Moon
Saturday August 14th Laurelthirst Public House with Slewfoot String Band
Saturday August 14th @ St. Helens American Music Fest
Thurs Aug 5th @ Dante's 1 SW 3rd & Burnside
Saturday July 24th @ The Longhorn Saloon "Portland's Best Unsigned Blues Bands" >> view photos <<
Saturday July 24th Oregon Brewers Festival, Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Portland
Saturday July 17th @ Cornelius Pass Roadhouse Brewfest 4045 NW Cornelius Pass Rd, Hillsboro OR before Buds of May
Friday July 16th @ The White Eagle, 836 N. Russell, Portland w/ guests Blitzen Trapper download show flyer
Thursday July 15th Clam Beach Inn, 4611 Central Ave, McKinleyville, CA with Slewfoot String Band 9pm ~ THANKS to Times-Standard (Eureka) for the article
Wednesday July 14th San Francisco -- The Plough and Stars Pub, 116 Clement St (at 2nd Ave) 9pm download show flyer
THANKS to SF Weekly for featuring us ::
Dirty Blue Country WED 7/14 Any band that uses plastic buckets as drums is OK by us. But Hillstomp also has rave reviews from music zines, a rabid Black Keys crossover fan base, and a brand-new CD to recommend it. One Word, a cranky reminder about the group's name, boasts stripped-down, hooch-fueled psycho-blues screeds against bad guys like grave robbers and landlords. Storm the stage at 9 p.m. at the Plough and Stars, 116 Clement (at Second Avenue), S.F. Admission is free; call 751-1122 or visit http://pweb.jps.net/~jgilder/plough.html. -- Hiya Swanhuyser
THANKS also to SF Bay Guardian for making us their "8 Days a Week" Pick ::
No honky-tonk It's not every day that urbanites get to experience the hill country music of northern Mississippi, and it's even rarer to hear this regional blues set to high-energy punk. Portland duo Hillstomp twist all notions of country by playing pulsating rhythms mixed with hints of R.L. Burnside, Indian drone, and Southern bluegrass. Henry Kammerer plays erratic slide guitar and doles out husky vocals while John Johnson creates percussion out of found objects: plastic buckets, cans, and cardboard boxes. The effect is raucous and sure to leave the more ambitious audience members toe-tapping and two-stepping. 9 p.m., Plough and Stars, 116 Clement, S.F. Free. (415) 751-1122. (Stephanie Laemoa)
Saturday July 10th The Gypsy Lounge 23600 Rockfield, Lake Forest CA (orange county) with Withdrawal, Lowfive & Aesop Lied
Friday July 9th Las Vegas NV -- Double Down Saloon 4640 Paradise Road with The Holy Smokes & Thee Swank Bastards 10pm ~ BIG THANKS TO : Las Vegas Mercury AND Las Vegas City Life
thur July 8th The Zephyr, Reno NV, 1074 South Virginia ~ read article at RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
Wed July 7th Davis CA ~ G Street Pub, 228 G St, Davis, Ca
Tue July 6th Oakland Ca the Stork Club with A.J. Roach & Piss Pissedoffherson (from The Devil's Own) ~ download show flyer
Friday July 2 Waterfront Blues Festival, portland "The festival is the second largest blues festival in the nation. It annually attracts more than 120,000 blues fans from throughout the world who enjoy 100 performances on four stages." including Keb Mo, Jonny Lang and several tons more. we played two sets:
~ A&E Front Porch Stage ~ see full schedule
~ and the Hoodoo Moon Blues Cruise with the Holmes Brothers, Canned Heat, Robert Belfour with Mark Lemhouse, Roy Book Binder y los Hillstomp
Friday June 25th @ Dante's PDX w/ SOB acoustic, Little Sue & Scott McCaughey of The Young Fresh Fellows REM and a ton of other folks
Tuesday June 22nd@ The Twilight Cafe 10pm W/ Rum Runner " Miracles happen, and tonight it's Hillstomp. Sounding like 20 Miles (sans Stones hogwash) cold showering with Bob Log III (absent blue-comedy bull), this duo of Fat Possum teat-suckers knows how to work a room. Sure, our snooty local "blues community" can't hang with the cheap slide theatrics and junkyard rhythmics. Fine. But how many of those open-mic jerk-offs can KILL at a lesbian crawfish boil? That's what I thought. (SDS)" ~ Willamette Week
thanks to rum runner too for some kind words "Anyway, we played with an amazing local blues combo called Hillstomp who opened and headlined the show with us in the middle. As soon as we get our links page going we’ll put a link up for them and they have to be checked out."
friday june 18th John Henry's, Eugene OR with Whopner County, The Ditty Twisters, The Koozies and more
Sat June 5th Higher Ground CD Release Party Conan's Pub at 3862 SE Hawthorn (39th & Hawthorne) portland or
Fri June 4th Downtown Lounge, Eugene, KWVA birthday shindig w/ The Sawyer Family
Sat May 29th Duff's Garage 1635 SE 7th ave, Portland w/ Toad in the Hole and Minnie Pearl's Army (members of Moonshine Hangover) ~ download show flyer
Friday May 21st with Dylan Thomas Vance and Whopner County Country All Stars at Sam Bonds Garage Eugene OR
Friday May 14th Moonshine Hangover's BROWN JUG SUMMIT II and Memphis Radio Kings CD RELEASE PARTY plus HILLSTOMP's BUCKET n SLIDE o RAMA @ The White Eagle Saloon with Memphis Radio Kings (from Seattle)& Moonshine Hangover. download one poster & too poster
Wednesday May 12th KBOO 90.7 FM Portland Drinking From Puddles Show with Brandon Lieberman
Thursday May 6th at The Blue Monk, 3341 se Belmont, Portland, OR download show flyer
Sat May 1st The Ash St Saloon opening for Split Lip Rayfield with I can lick any Sonofabitch in the House. Thanks to WWeek for th: "Each of these bands likes its traditional sound with some big ol' balls. Members of Wichita's Split Lip Rayfield shred their bluegrass into a fine mulch, courtesy of some riotous banjo and the one-of-a-kind one-string gas-tank bass. Locals Hillstomp and I Can Lick Any S.O.B. in the House give a similar treatment to the blues. (MB) [BLUEGRASS STOMP] Ash Street, 225 Sw Ash St., 226-0430. 9 pm. Cover. 21+."
Friday april 30 Ashland OR -- Siskiyou Pub, 31 Water St
Thursday April 29th San Francisco KFOG Morning Show 104.5 FM / 97.7 (san jose) ~ hear the song we played or get the CD that includes it. Later on, Morning Show host Dave Morey said "They're good!"
Thursday April 29th San Francisco Bazaar Cafe 5927 California Street (@21st ave), KFOG lunchtime show. "Enjoy a meal in the sunshine, a cup of tea on a foggy day or a pleasant moment in the soft glow..."
Thursday April 29th San Francisco at 12 Galaxies with Seven Nations ~ download show flyer
Wednesday april 28 Arcata CA -- Muddy Waters Coffee Co with Slewfoot String Band -- download show flyer
Tuesday April 27th at the Stork Club, 2330 Telegraph in Oakland CA with The Devil's Own and Madera Road ~ download show flyer
Monday April 26th Davis, CA at Cafe Roma at 223 3rd St
Saturday april 24 Las Vegas NV -- Double Down Saloon before THE SHOWGIRLS, THE DEGENERATES and THE LATEST FLAMES "... Hillstomp's visceral moonshine rock may focus on stories of women and woe, yet the album leaves you feeling enlightened, as if you just stepped out of an Appalachian house of worship." - Poizen Ivy
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"John and Henry's "hill country punk blues" was highly recommended by SOB's Mike Damron and they did not disappoint. Their rootsy sound is enhanced with vocal distortion and John's homemade drum kit constructed primarily of plastic buckets and cans. The boy also plays a mean washboard. Songs like "Shake 'Em On Down" had the crowd stamping their feet and clapping along." - Sin City Sounds
Friday April 23rd on Cool As Folk with Cornelius KDVS 90.3 FM, Davis CA >> view pictures <<
Sat April 3rd with Toad in the Hole and Whopner County Country All Stars @ The Wetlands Brew Pub in Eugene, OR
Saturday march 27th at the Laurelthirst Public House, 2958 NE Glisan w/Mark Lemhouse :: download show flyer
Thursday March 25th International Club Mummy 332 NE San Rafael PDX with Muddy River Nightmare Band and Dark Skies
Friday March 19th opening for Roy Rogers & The Delta Rhythm Kings at Lefty's 1230 State Street Salem, OR
Thursday March 18th at The Blue Monk, 3341 se Belmont, Portland, oRe 8ish to 11ish download show flyer. Thanks to wweek for the listing: "Power-packed washboard blues your kinda party? Look no further than Hillstomp, a DIY duo of local boys gone wild. Armed with a collection of precariously made instruments, a boozy 'tude and a hint of a punk-rock past, Hillstomp is a small group (just two of 'em) that throws down in a large way. This week the band takes on the normally jazzy Blue Monk. (KC) [BLUES]"
Wednesday March 17th St Pat's Day at Lefty's 1230 State Street Salem, OR 7ish to 11ish
Tuesday March 2nd at John Henry's, Eugene OR with BOB LOG III and The Shudders "When you guys were playing, I wanted to call up [name withheld], hold up the phone and scream THIS IS HOW ITS SUPPOSED TO BE DONE!" ~bob log 3
Saturday Feb 28th @ Duff's Garage w/ The Runaway Boys download show flyer
Friday Feb 27th at Holman's on "River City Juke Joint" KMHD 89.1 FM
Saturday Feb 14th @ The Laurelthirst Public House, 2958 NE Glisan in Portland w/ Minnie Pearl's Army (members of Moonshine Hangover) download show flyer
Saturday Feb 7th KRVM 91.9 FM in Eugene on Scott Foley's "Acoustic Junction" radio show
Saturday Feb 7th KWVA 88.1 FM UO Eugene on Johnny Now's "Nowsville" radio show
Saturday Feb 7th Sam Bonds Garage with ill lit at 407 Blair Blvd, Eugene OR download show flyer
wednesday January 21st Ash Street Saloon, 225 SW Ash Street with Mike D from I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House, Shoeshine Blue & Chad Bault
Saturday January 17th Lefty's 1230 State Street Salem, OR opening for Mark Lemhouse and the Lonesome Playboys
Friday Jan 16th CD RELEASE PARTY / SHOW for our new album one word @ The White Eagle Saloon, 836 N. Russell in Portland, with Moonshine Hangover (acoustic) and Mark Lemhouse (featuring David Lipkind and Ned Folkerth)
... and a bunch more before and after these.
Don't miss the new shows on the other page.
Hillstomp Contact/Booking information
booking@hillstomp.com
and more detailed info on our new contact info page