You’ve had a pretty good career in 70s soul music, so you decide to step out of the spotlight and relax.
In Portland.
(Apologies to you-know-who, but we’re more than just the place where young people come to retire)
That’s what the legendary Ural Thomas did, never intending to get back into music. But he did. (You can dive deeper on this in a beautiful 2015 article from Portland Monthly)…. And now it’s been 12 years that he hooked up with his band, The Pain, and 12 years we’ve been treated to seeing this incredible performer at venues all around town. Here’s a clip of the 12th Anniversary show at Mississippi Studios, the musician’s venue we’d put up against anything in Austin TX
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