Mexican Gunfight
This event is in the past
Fri., Jan. 20, 9 p.m. 2017
McMenamins White Eagle Saloon
Eliot (Portland)
$8
I saw Mexican Gunfight play once, a couple of summers ago in a tetanus-trap of a building on the site of an old junkyard in an industrial part of Bend. Every word of that sentence is true, somehow. It was a set in the middle of a three-day festival with dozens of bands, but Mexican Gunfight stood out to me primarily because of "Crazy in June," a melodic powerhouse of a song with an instantly memorable chorus, killer keyboard parts, and beautiful backing vocals. It's the kind of tune that just reaches out, grabs ears, and won't let go. These days, "Crazy in June" is the first song on Mexican Gunfight's 2014 album Long Play, which delivers more of the same kind of classic roots-rock 'n' pop throughout its 10 tracks. BEN SALMON