Seattle country rockers to play Treehouse show
Published 8:30 am Thursday, September 26, 2019
Seattle-based vintage-style country music rockers Country Lips are set to return to Lynwood’s Treehouse Café at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27.
Tickets, $20 for general admission (seating is limited), are on sale via www.treehousebainbridge.com.
The seven-man ensemble, in the words of American Standard Time, “formed years ago in Seattle around a shared ethos of booze, badassery and countrified rock-and-roll in the tradition of George Jones, Johnny Cash and the Flying Burrito Brothers.”
According to No Depression, “These boys look like outlaws. If they entered your bar, silence would soon fall as heads turn to eyeball this ensemble. But after a few tunes they’d be everyone’s friends because so much of their repertoire is good time stuff. They don’t cry into their beer.”
Their old school-inspired stylings have earned similarly rave reviews far and wide, including Seattle Weekly.
“Many, many years before the likes of Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley, and Blake Shelton donned 10-gallon hats and began crooning about blue jeans and cheesy romance, country was the genre of choice for drunkards, rebels, and rockers,” one review lamented. “Seattle’s own Country Lips pay homage to that proud tradition, cranking out debauched ballads with slurred-speech choruses that would make Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard proud.”
Visit www.countrylips.com to learn more.
