Blitzen Trapper/Dawes/The Belle Brigade @ The Neptune Theatre, Seattle, WA 11.11.11
Marty Marquis of Blitzen Trapper at the Neptune Theatre in Seattle, WA on November 11, 2011. Photo by Kateri Town.
Co-headlining tours can be the strangest things. Two bands with separately established fan bases touring together can make for an almost unification of the bands, or quickly spiral out of control into a giant chest-puffing contest. In the case of Blitzen Trapper and Dawes, it appeared to do neither, but it did show two bands with a similar swath of influences displaying two very different schools of output.
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