BIO


 


Ryan Holweger - Guitar & Vocals


Jon Wurm - Drums


Thomas Case - Lap Steel Guitar, Mandolin, Electric Guitar, Wurlitzer


Josh Christenson - Bass & Backing Vocals


Tim Heinlein - Guitar



 


“I couldn’t overcome feeling I’d been dropped into the novel world of Cormac McCarthy’s gritty western fiction meets pure Southern Gothic. Lyrics are imbued with a straightforward clarity and darkness.  Melodies echo universal hard-scrabble characters and striking vistas….You can nearly feel the fading heart, the grieving, the loss, the warm fluids running across cold fingers.” -  Refueled Magazine


 


“lyrics that are beautiful, sadly poetic, and assume an almost existential air….ranging from delicate, quiet acoustic to a full-band blast, it leaves nothing to be desired” – 30music.com


 


“these songs create an audio landscape of hard times and cold winters with a sweet, sad reverie and sad twangs of yesteryear.”  - MinneapolisFuckingRocks.com


 


 


“it feels like the late nights spent on porches across America at the end of a party where those remaining are a little too drunk to get home and so sit, smoke cigarettes and wait for sobriety or dawn, whichever comes first.” – Cakein15.com


 


“The song “In The End I Went Away” has a hazy sheen over it’s americana roots. Banjos sound distant, guitars and vocals are distorted and loneliness and pain are the overriding emotions. In other words it’s wonderful.”  - Songs:Illinois


 


“They aren't perfect but that's what makes them special.”  - Music Emissions


 


“Western Fifth sing a sad little song with perfectly placed piano bits and vocal howls that tug at the heartstrings, making for a great soundtrack to a cold night warmed only by whiskey and neon signs in a dive bar...sounds like a dirtier, grittier Wilco, with a touch of Up Records-era Modest Mouse, thanks to their howling guitars and strange, raspy voices." - MFR


 


 


“The five-piece plays slow, atmospheric songs with a confidence that makes it sound like it has been doing this for decades.” – St. Paul Pioneer Press


 


 


"There are many, many points in the music where a lethargic phrase all of a sudden takes a breath and then slams into you with what can only be called full-on lethargy, akin to being broadsided by a bus." - howwastheshow.com


 


“Dark and perverse” – 30music.com




UPCOMING SHOWS

  • 3/17/10St Paul, MNST PATTY'S DAY AT THE TURF - with IKE REILLY
  • 3/18/10Minneapolis, MNNomad Pub
  • 5/6/10Minneapolis, MN331 Club (Acoustic Show)

FAN CHATTER

Thats a great article on you all

WF | 1/23/09

Good stuff ladies!!

D | 1/17/09

Nice looking website!

JT | 1/16/09