Don Chambers

Vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist Don Chambers provides made a robust name for himself in Athens, GA, where he’s turn into a neighborhood beloved for his frequently dark, powerfully emotional stories of loss as well as the seek out redemption. Raised with a churchgoing family members in Florence, SC, Chambers used music being a youngster and afterwards developed a pastime in visual artwork. In 1988, he shifted to Athens to sign up inside a master’s system in printmaking. In a short time, however, Chambers experienced lost desire for both printmaking and academia, and threw himself into music by developing a band known as Cursing Alice along with his friend Arthur Tarratus. With time, Cursing Alice developed into Vaudeville, an organization that recorded a small number of singles, compilation songs, and an recording called In to the Burlesque before splitting up in 1998. (The final in the band’s very long type of drummers was Brad Morgan, who afterwards joined up with the Drive-By Truckers.) After Vaudeville’s break up, Chambers centered on composing tracks that indulged his interest for nation blues and root base music. He released a single record, 2002’s Back the Woods, and shortly formed an organization named GOAT to greatly help re-create the fractured blues-gospel-hillbilly cross types of Chambers’ recordings in his live shows. The group included Matt “Pistol” Stoessel on metal electric guitar, Patrick Hargon on lead electric guitar, Lisa Hargon Smith on bass, Brandon McDearis on drums, and Jim Wilson, who added extra percussion utilizing a ladder installed with a number of sound-producing gimmicks. Don Chambers & GOAT produced their documenting debut using a self-titled record released in 2005, and their second disk, a self-released work called I ACQUIRED the Recollection from the Blood from the Lamb, made an appearance in 2007. Chambers and GOAT toured many times as an starting work for the Drive-By Truckers, and DBT head Patterson Hood created the band’s 2008 discharge, Zebulon. Before GOAT started focus on the record, nevertheless, Patrick Hargon and Lisa Hargon Smith amicably still left the group, while Kevin Street enrolled as GOAT’s brand-new bassist.