# Concert review: Futurebirds – The “BirdFam” was out in force for the band’s recent show at Thalia Hall in Chicago! Video, Photos

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2024/03/18/concert-review-futurebirds-the-birdfam-was-out-in-force-for-the-bands-recent-show-at-thalia-hall-in-chicago-video-photos/
- Published: 2024-03-18T00:02:19+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**In a world that often demands the categorization of musical tastes, it is refreshing
to experience a band that is about the vibe, not the genre.**

Blazing their own path of musical exploration, Futurebirds have spent their career
painting outside the lines of any particular scene.

As singer/guitarist Carter King has explained, the band has always been “too indie
rock for the jam festival, too country for the indie scene, [and] a little too psych-
rock to feel… Americana.” Instead, the band has “created its own weird little ecosystem”
that is “thriving” and “feels great.” It shows in their live performances.

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There is a unique bond between the band and its fans. Rather than merely playing
for the fans, the Futurebirds party with them as if fans and band are one. It is
a relationship that has affectionately earned the band’s fans the moniker of “the
BirdFam.” That family was out in force for the band’s recent show at Thalia Hall
in Chicago.

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The band – consisting of three singer-songwriter-guitarists (Carter King, Daniel
Womack and Thomas Johnson), as well as a bassist (Brannen Miles), pedal steel player(
Kiffy Myers), keyboardist (Spencer Thomas) and drummer (Tom Myers) – transformed
Thalia Hall from a concert hall into a house party.  They played a set that covered
songs from each of the band’s four studio albums – including the 2020 release, Teamwork,
and the two most recent EPs, Bloomin’ (2021) and Bloomin’ Too (2022).

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For nearly 90-minutes, the BirdFam floated and soared in constant rhythm within 
the band’s ecosystem, journeying across an over decade long catalogue of songs that
included “Crazy Boys,” “Easier Said,” “Twentyseven,” “Buffet Days,” “Rodeo,” “Johnny
Utah,” “Dig,” “College Try,” “Put Up, Keep Up,” “Trippin’” and “Yur Not Dead.”  
The evening ended with the band’s touring mates, The Nude Party, for two epic jams:
The Grateful Dead’s “Bertha” and The Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil.”

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Regardless of which side of the fence you sit – too much or too little indie rock,
jam, country, psych-rock or Americana – the categorization is irrelevant. Futurebirds
are all of those and none of them. A band with its own sound. A sound best described
as Futurebirds.

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