Winnipeg band The Bros. Landreth has had some pretty important moments over the last few years.
There was the “ah-ha” moment in 2012 when musicians and brothers Joey and David Landreth decided to start a band together. There was the proud moment when they released their first full length CD, Let it Lie, in 2013.
And most recently there was, as David Landreth described, the ‘mom posting on the fridge’ moment when Rolling Stone magazine gave the Manitoba band a rave review, stating that they understand the swagger of blues music.
“Super exciting,” said David. “We’re pretty happy. It was a pretty fun moment to wake up and find that in our inbox.”
But the way David described his parent’s support; this certainly couldn’t have been the first time mom posted on the fridge.
The brother’s father is Winnipeg musician Wally Landreth, and according to David, Wally was thrilled when he heard the brothers had decided to start a musical project.
He described his dad buying them any instrument they wanted while they were going up and his mother driving them to countless music lessons over the years.
“They played pretty instrumental roles, pardon the pun,” said David.
David also discussed how much Winnipeg has also been “instrumental” in the development of The Bros. Landreth.
“Travelling around we’ve seen and tasted various communities all over, and the bigger the town, it seems the more competitive…not always, but that is generally how it works. There is just none of that in Winnipeg,” explained David. “Everybody has an opportunity to contribute. Everybody plays with everybody. Everybody records on everybody’s records. There is enough to go around.”
David pointed out a recent blog post written by his fiancé that points to the geographical isolation and weather in Winnipeg as part of the reason for the tight knit musical community.
“There is this great hibernation that happens. There is this communal survival that occurs,” said David, describing the freezing cold temperatures that hit the prairies. “As you know in Alberta, it’s not that much different. There is this element of ‘OK, we will just pull together we will get through this.’”
And The Bros. Landreth have certainly been getting through it successfully with Let it Lie being very well received critically in Canada and the band gaining a lot of attention south of the border with the album having a release date of Jan. 27 in the U.S.
You can catch The Bros. Landreth performing at the Cochrane RancheHouse as part of the Cochrane Valley Folk Club’s season Saturday, Oct. 24.
