Mapache - Life On Fire
LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Life On Fire’ - Mapache
Our next featured artists today California based Sam Blasucci and Clay Finch have been brilliantly described as the ‘Everly Brothers wearing Tied Dyed Nudie Suits’. Their latest single is the smooth ‘Life On Fire’ taken from their forthcoming album ‘From Liberty Street’ released on March 20th via Yep Roc.
Sam and Clay will be performing as part of the Yep Roc sessions at the AMA UK showcases in Hackney next week at Oslo on January 29th. Tickets available from the AMA UK via a wristband.
Formed in January 2016 Mapache is a folk, blues, rock, bluegrass and psychadelic duo born in Los Angeles. Though Mapache (Spanish for “raccoon”) only recently began recording, the duo’s roots stretch all the way back to high school, where Sam and Clay struck up a friendship over a shared love of skateboarding and classic songwriters. After graduation, Clay headed north to study music at Chico State (birthplace of The Mother Hips, who recently invited Mapache to perform at their beloved Hipnic festival in Big Sur), while Sam headed South to Mexico, where he served as a missionary for two years.
The duo’s sound is not an exercise in pop nostalgia, but rather a distinctly independent link in a chain that stretches far behind and ahead of them.
Photo credit: Paul Collins