Nat Myers disembarks at the El Albéitar Theater at 8:30 p.m. This Kansas poet of Korean origin has been on the road for years, composing songs that draw on the blues and American epics of the 30s and 40s, and that caught the attention of Dan Auerbach, with whom he recorded his debut for Easy Eye Sound Records.
“I'm always on a quest,” says Korean-American blues poet Nat Myers. «Roaming is something I have finally managed to achieve. I've traveled a lot, but lately not being in a fixed place has seeped into my songwriting and my music. Life seems simpler on the road. “You're just trying to get to the next place in one piece.” Their debut album, Yellow Peril, is full of churning blues songs about jumping from train to train, burning tires on the highways, running away from danger, but also about running toward something hard to define and even harder to reach. Full of intelligence and soul, and contradiction and nuance, these songs reflect Myers' restlessness and authentic passion in their fast riffs, their complicated rhythms and their fast tempos. Myers' story begins in Kansas, but quickly moves west from Tennessee and then to northern Kentucky. Even as a child he was a restless spirit: “I had a restless childhood. “My parents forced me to be part of the school band, but I hated it and ended up destroying the trumpet.” Myers did not foresee an ambitious future as a musician, not even when he began to highlight his skill with the plectrum, because his true passion was poetry. Covid marked the end of this first career as a performer and Myers had to return home to wait for the pandemic to end by uploading videos of his performances to social networks. The videos caught the attention of Dan Auerbach, the leader of the Black Keys and founder of Easy Eye Sound Records, who contacted him to meet in Nashville. Instead of recording in Auerbach's studio – where most of Easy Eye's artists work – they set up a makeshift studio in Auerbach's home, which turned out to be a much more suitable setting for Myers' folk blues than a studio. Tickets cost 6 euros.
