Biography

Contacts:

For radio promotion - mbmusicpromo@gmail.com (Glory)
Malletts Bay Music [dot] com
For management & legal - battenkillmusic@gmail.com (Scott)
Bow's Publishing: Elbop Music/SESAC
To purchase - bowthayer.bandcamp.com or iTunes

"[Sundowser] doesn’t actually sound like anyone despite some of the familiar flavors that are apparent. And therein lies the talent of Bow Thayer. This is like progressive-Americana music." - No Depression

Check out Bow's other more recent release - The Source & the Servant
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Bio:
Bow Thayer is a serious asset to Americana music. Since he moved to Vermont he has been a creative and cultural force and has churned out impressive albums both as a solo artist as well as with his former band 'Perfect Trainwreck'. American Songwriter wrote "this onetime Levon Helm compatriot is the best artist to come from new England in recent years." Bow likes to refer to his music as "Progressive Mountain Music" and hopes that the term will catch on. He is the inventor of the Bojotar (Eastwood/Airline Guitar Company) and the founder of the Tweed River Music Festival.

Bow’s music is always evolving—from luscious backwoods folk rock to the sonic exploration of his 2015 release of all original material, 'Sundowser', that was co-produced and engineered by three-time Grammy winner Justin Guip (Levon Helm) and crafted on an instrument Bow created--the Bojotar--in a studio he built with his own hands. As No Depression puts it, "You want inventiveness....I offer Bow Thayer."

While out on the road, Bow had the joy of introducing the Bojotar to fans and friends alike, including some of his musical peers and heroes such as Bela Fleck, Richard Thompson, The Steep Canyon Ramblers and Warren Haynes. Having played with these music luminaries as well as Levon Helm, John Hiatt, Booker T, and Ringo Starr, Bow has seen his fair share of travel across these United States of America and the World at large and plans to do more while supporting his records that feature his tales, truths and fantasies about the human condition. Bow and his band of brothers devote their lives to spreading music wherever they go and hope you have the chance to catch an earful.

The album marks Bow's 11th release.

Track list for 'Sundowser':

1. Burning Miles
2. Dinner Warnings
3. So We Build
4. The Funeral Crasher
5. Horus
6. Tug of War
7. Downtrodder
8. Drug Lust
9. Lympus
10. Guild Talking
11. Borrow a Bus (feat. Tracy Bonham)
12. Snow Goose

All songs written by William Bowman Thayer/SESAC
Publishing: Elbop Music Publishing/SESAC
Self-Released

Engineered and mixed by Justin Gulp
Produced by Bow Thayer and Justin Gulp
Arranged by Bow Thayer, Jeff Berlin and Justin Gulp
Recorded at The Woodshed (Stockbridge, VT) and Milan Hill Studio (Red Hook, NY)
Mastered by Alex McCollough at Yes Master Studios (Nashville, TN)

Musicians:

Bow Thayer - vocals, acoustic and electric Bojotar and guitars, banjo, bass banjo, synthesizer
Jeff Berlin - drums and percussion
Alex Abraham - bass, vocals
JD Tolstoi - Fender Rhodes
Marco Benevento - organ, Moog synthesizer, Wurlitzer, piano on tracks 1, 3, 7, 10
RLee Adams - organ on tracks 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12
Tracy Bonham - lead vocal on "Borrow a Bus", backing vocals
Justin Gulp - Bojotar, studio effects
River Thayer, Juniper Duggan, Giona Gulp, Angus Gulp - vocals

*For more info on the Bojotar, visit Eastwood/Airline Guitars