Lonesome Rhodes is Brian Pake, who also plays in Seattle based bands Spook the Horse and With Friends Like These. The Good Company consists of a slew of musicians including...Matt Shaw, Michael Vermillion and Justin Cronk of Vendetta Red, Kyle Logghe of Verona, Kimo Muraki, members of Spook the Horse and more. This project, from the start has been based on Pake's ambition to include and collaborate with as many friends and musicians as possible.
The Project started in the summer of 2006. Pake was recording some demos when Cronk offered to engineer an entire record. They went to work for the next four months recording the record in their rehearsal space, finding creative ways to capture sounds with minimal recording equipment. The band started playing shows the beginning of 2007 and the debut album, "Nothing To Write Home About" was released in October.
Lonesome and Co. recorded a five song EP at Studio Litho in early 2009 and have just released it (December '09) as a prelude to a second full length currently in the works.
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SEATTLE SOUND MAGAZINE (4/4 STARS) * The debut from Seattle-via-Bellingham country crooner Lonesome Rhodes and his vast collective of whiz kid musicians aims high - harmony-filled, Neil Young-inspired folk, drenched in piano and electric guitar. For the most part, Rhodes (aka Brian Pake of local indie rock bastion Spook the Horse) and company deliver, especially with languid ballads like "Effort" and harsher, grittier tunes like "Sidetracked" and "Frame of Mind." Rhodes is at his best when he's at his darkest - and his lowest (a few of those high notes are almost cringe-inducing). His stark, melancholy whispering on the aforementioned "Frame of Mind" and dusty, Rocky Votolato-sounding rasp on the title track are stirring, but it's "This Old Soul" that really stuns - a haunting, instrumental ballad led by a desolate piano melody.
-KATIE SAURO
THE STRANGER (BAND OF THE WEEK 02.07.08) * Maybe you saw the feature in last weeks paper? The one about a little local band called Fleet Foxes? Well, they're just one band flying the folk banner in Seattle's music community - Lonesome Rhodes & the Good Company also find inspiration in artists like Van Morrison and the Band. Led by Brian Pake of Spook the Horse, this new country outfit features a rotating roster of local notables like Matthew Shaw, Michael Vermillion, Justin Cronk, and Kyle Logghe playing a small orchestra of guitars, percussion, piano, and organ. Their next show is February 26th at the Triple Door.
- MEGAN SELING
BEST RECORDS OF 2007 (KEXP 90.3) * Kyle Johnson included "Nothing To Write Home About." in his top 10 favorite records of the year. KEXP Best of 2007
SEATTLE WEEKLY (REVERBfest) * These Seattle-via-Bellingham crooners make country-rock, but they are far too broad to be called “alt. countryâ€. For example, their song “Oh Sweet Death†has a pace and breeziness to it like a 70s country song, or a folksier Beatles. But the melodies are laced heavily with Beach Boys-esque summery pop. Elsewhere, on “Sunshine On My Mindâ€, they craft the kind of slow-drag country-folk Neil Young is famous for, which winds up sounding like a very polished Palace Brothers. Though it’s mainly the project of Spook the Horse’s Brian Pake, he’s often backed up by a small, rootsy orchestra, consisting of “as many friends and musicians as possibleâ€. With this many musicians roaming around Ballard for REVERBfest, you never know who might show up onstage.
- BRIAN J BARR
