“What country sounded like when it still had the blues.”
– Kirsty Evans, East Bay Express
Otto Mobile and the Moaners deliver an original hybrid of Urban Country Rock and Roll. Their roots reach a century deep in the past and fuse with sonic textures of the future. The band is named in honor of the banjo wielding ancestor of Matt Lundquist who claims he jammed with Otto in a mystical dream. This dream inspired Lundquist to build a catalogue of over 200 lost songs that breathe with old rhythms and inventive lyriciscm.
Lundquist’s slide guitar work has obvious ties to Delta Bluesmen and Duane Allman. His style also mixes the flatpicking of Doc Watson with the Grunge sounds of his youth. Also a singer in the band, his delivery surprises and delights. To embellish his songs, his harmonica aches melody and his atmospheric pedal steel reflects the falling stars.
Elliott Peck’s soaring voice both empowers and lends the band feminine charm. The band’s vocal blend is an exciting rebirth of the Gram Parsons / Emmylou Harris archetype. Her smooth piano and Wurlitzer playing further complement Lundquist’s manic depressive slide. On the mic and on the keys, Elliott has magnetic stage presence.
Low end wizard Connor O’Sullivan boasts a diverse palette of bass tones. Everything from thumping stand up on grassy tunes, to pumping out Fender P-Bass lines on rock tunes, to bowing electric upright on spacey songs. O’Sullivan also wields a Jaguar baritone guitar to synthesize bass lines with colorful guitar arpeggios.
The live experience of Otto and the Moaners resembles plugging the tube amps into a Midwestern thunderstorm, then waking up to the splatter of rain on a tin roof and the crackle of an all night log on the fire.
Physical Releases
Midnight North
Selections from the Great American Music Hall
CD & Digital
TR-111
Midnight North
Under The Lights
LP, CD & Digital
TR-110
Midnight North
Scarlet Skies
LP, CD & Digital
TR-808
Midnight North
End of the Night
LP, CD & Digital
TR-707
Otto Mobile & The Moaners
Restless Sun
CD & Digital
TR-606
Dem Suite
Delphinus
CD & Digital
TR-505
The What!?
Definition EP
7″ Vinyl & Digital
TR-404
Spinnerty & Dem Suite
Sweet Soul EP
7″ Vinyl & Digital
TR-303
Spinnerty & Dem Suite
Feels Like Rain EP
7″ Vinyl & Digital
TR-202
Digital Only Releases
Midnight North
Down and Out in Mobile
Digital
2020
Midnight North
Live at Terrapin Crossroads
Digital
2016
Midnight North
Stayin’ Single,
Drinkin’ Doubles
Digital
2015
Croonn
Figurations
Digital
2014
DRT YRT
Chicago Manual of Sound
Digital
2012
Dem Suite
Scribbles EP
Digital
2011
DRT YRT
Sounds From Unknown Animals
Digital
2009