The Builders and the Butchers

Folk Rock band based in Portland,fronted by singer/guitar player Ryan Sollee. The other members of the band are Alexander Ellis (bass guitar, vocals, percussion), Brandon Hafer (drums, trumpet, melodica, backup vocals, percussion), Ray Rude (drums, piano, clarinet, backup vocals, percussion), and Harvey Tumbleson (mandolin, banjo, guitar, vocals, percussion). Each member is originally from Anchorage, Alaska, initially they called themselves "The Funeral Band", performing in the streets and outside of music venues to whoever would listen. The name eventually changed to The Builders and The Butchers, Ryan Sollee describes that first year of acoustic street shows as “peaceful” and free from altercations with the law."During this time, the band was primarily acoustic until opening for experimental band Man Man in 2006. “We very slowly started plugging [our instruments] in.” Sollee says,but the group had to figure out how to utilize its two percussionists on stage. They found that by splitting one drum kit between Seely and Rude, with one handling the kick drum and another playing the snare, they developed what the group calls a “deconstructed” drumming style (wikipedia).

The Builders And The Butchers - 2007



01.The Night Pt. 1
02.Red Hands
03.Spanish Death Song
04.Black Dresses
05.Bottom Of The Lake
06.The Gallows
07.Bringin’ Home The Rain
08.The Coal Mine Fall
09.Slowed Down Trip To Hell
10.The Night Pt. 2
11.Ten Miles Wide
12.Find Me In The Air

Good Music!

Salvation Is A Deep Dark Well - 2009



01.Golden And Green
02.Devil Town
03.Short Way Home
04.Barcelona
05.Hands Like Roots
06.Down In This Hole
07.Raise Up Your Weary Hands
08.Vampire Lake
09.The Wind Has Come
10.In The Branches
11.The World Is A Top

Good Music!

Where The Roots All Grow - 2010



01.The Wind Has Come
02.Bringin Home The Rain
03.Black Elevator / Black Dresses
04.It Came From The Sea
05.The Night / Red Hands
06.The Rain
07.Devil Town
08.Bottom of The Lake
09.Vampire Lake
10.In The Branches / Coal Mine Fall
11.The Gallows
12.Slowed Down Trip To Hell
13.When It Rains

Good Music!