Willamette Week Recommends Fruit Bats

Fruit Bats’ Portland show next week is on the Willamette Week’s calendar, due in part to the epic backstory behind it. “More than 12 years ago,” the site says, “Eric D. Johnson played what he said would be his last show with the Fruit Bats at Portland’s Aladdin Theater, but the folk-rock project has proven tenacious since then, with the sparse and rangy new record Baby Man dropping last September. Johnson, a former Portland resident (and onetime member of the Shins), returns to this hallowed venue in Fruit Bats history for an intimate acoustic concert.” Check out the listing here.

See Fruit Bats on the solo Baby Man tour:

1/30 – Santa Cruz, CA – Rio Theater
1/31 – Grass Valley, CA – The Center for The Arts
2/4 – Portland, OR – Aladdin Theater
2/5 – Seattle, WA – Washington Hall
2/6 – St. Albert, AB – Arden Theater
2/7 – Calgary, AB – Block Heater Festival