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SCREEN DOOR PORCH delivers a Wyoming-grown fusion of soulful Americana, Roots-Rock and Country-Blues akin to “Stevie Nicks meets The Band, with Ryan Adams and Bonnie Raitt hanging out backstage” (605 Magazine). Grooving, electrified porch music, that is. The core female/male singer-songwriter pair of Seadar Rose & Aaron Davis thrive in a space that houses rustic harmonies and “a sort of Lennon/McCartney arrangement and get it right every time” (Americana UK). Screen Door Porch was featured in The New York Times for their “entrepreneurial gumption” in founding the multi-act WYOmericana Caravan Tour, while Paste Magazine recently called the band “an impressive musical discovery.”
Part of Screen Door Porch’s MO has always been a breadth of acoustic and electric instrumentation for just four people—acoustic/electric/slide guitars, banjo, mandolin, harmonica, and kazoogle reinforced by the emphatic rhythm section of fretless bassist Tom Davidson and drummer/harmony vocalist Andy Peterson. This dynamic range allows for a high-energy swagger of gritty, slide-induced blues-rock to sultry indie-folk and pensive alt-country. Evidenced on the band’s third full-length studio album, Modern Settler (2015), there have been plenty of colorful characters in ole Wyoming, shaped by a landscape that inspires and humbles.
Modern Settler is Screen Door Porch’s first recording as the current four-piece unit, which includes fretless bassist Tom Davidson and drummer/harmony vocalist Andy Peterson. A sibling-like chemistry developed from over three years of touring the country together, though the progression has not come easy. When Screen Door Porch hit the local Jackson Hole scene in 2007, there were only a couple of bands playing original music in the valley, and few venues would book such bands. Aaron and Seadar persisted, and by 2009 had sprouted into a more rhythmic, dynamic quartet. The pair moved to Austin in winter of 2009-10 to focus on the recording and debut release of Screen Door Porch (2010), which solidified the long-term journey of being independent, touring songwriters. By the time The Fate & The Fruit (2012) was released, the band quickly became one of the most recognized acts in the state, performing on national festival stages with world class acts while headlining regional concert series.
