{"id":2445027,"date":"2019-06-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=307268"},"modified":"2019-06-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T06:00:00","slug":"the-record-company-returns-to-aspen-after-head-turning-labor-day-fest-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/the-record-company-returns-to-aspen-after-head-turning-labor-day-fest-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The Record Company returns to Aspen after head-turning Labor Day fest show"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lead singer Chris Vos of The Record Company performing at the JAS Labor Day Experience in 2018.<\/strong>
Anna Stonehouse\/The Aspen Times<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Going into the final day of the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience last summer<\/a>, the buzz was all about Zac Brown Band and Gary Clark Jr. But when the festival ended that night, for most everybody who showed up early enough to see them, a rising power trio from Los Angeles was the talk of the town.<\/p>\n

The Record Company<\/a> returns to Aspen on Saturday, June 8, for a headlining slot at Belly Up as the summer high season starts rolling.<\/p>\n

Built on classic American blues, fuzzy guitars and punk simplicity, The Record Company is making a case as rock\u2019s next big thing with astounding live shows and the breakout 2018 album \u201cAll of This Life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The record, a follow-up to the 2016 Grammy-nominated debut \u201cGive it Back to You,\u201d also landed the band on Billboard\u2019s New Artists, Americana\/Folk and Rock charts with the single \u201cLife to Fix,\u201d nailing a fearsome performance of the song on \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live\u201d and garnering raves from NPR Music and Rolling Stone.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter that first album, everything just got amplified,\u201d the band\u2019s singer and guitarist Chris Vos said last year. \u201cOur lives got crazier and bigger and more complicated in the best possible ways, and our sound and our songwriting just naturally grew alongside that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of This Life\u201d showcases the band\u2019s hard-charging blues rock on songs like \u201cLife to Fix\u201d but also shows the trio\u2019s expanding range. Among the album standouts is \u201cThe Movie Song,\u201d a ballad in the acoustic classic rock mold of mellower Rolling Stones tracks.<\/p>\n

Before these recent big breaks, The Record Company spent five years earning a West Coast cult following on the strength of its tempestuous live shows and a handful of independently released EPs. \u201cGive It Back to You\u201d sent the band on its first national tour, including supporting gigs for Denver\u2019s Nathaniel Rateliff at the Breckenridge Brewery and a headlining slot at Belly Up Aspen.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re a rock-and-roll band that cares a lot about the roll,\u201d Vos said during a swing though Aspen.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s been a blues-head since childhood, after getting his mind blown by Muddy Waters at age 12 or 13.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen my buddies were listening to indie rock and alt-rock, I was at home listening to Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed and Howlin\u2019 Wolf and the Stones and the Stooges,\u201d he recalled. \u201cIt just spoke to me. I loved the voices and the stories.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vos was raised on a dairy farm outside of Kenosha, Wisconsin \u2014 certainly not a hot bed of blues. But, he recalled, all that time working alone outside ended up enabling an immersion in the blues masters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I\u2019d go chop or bail hay or work a manure spreader all day long, I\u2019d have headphones on and be listening to music, just imagining these crazy musicians,\u201d he said. \u201cIt seemed very far away, but I loved it so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

He played lap and pedal steel in blues bands around the Midwest before moving to Los Angeles. He posted a Craigslist ad for musicians in Los Angeles that led him to Record Company bass player Alex Stiff and drummer Marc Cazorla.<\/p>\n

The first night the trio met in 2011, Vos recalled, they listened to blues records and talked music on Vos\u2019 porch in Los Feliz. They decided to record some songs in the living room the next day, which produced their first demo and the formation of The Record Company.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe shook hands on the back porch and said, \u2018This is the band,\u2019\u201d Vos recalled.<\/p>\n

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via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lead singer Chris Vos of The Record Company performing at the JAS Labor Day Experience in 2018.Anna Stonehouse\/The Aspen Times Going into the final day of the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience last summer, the buzz was all about Zac Brown Band and Gary Clark Jr. But when the festival ended that night, for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 08:43:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}