“Morgan Geer is the real thing – a songwriter with a heart as deep as the Marianas Trench and sensitive as the wet hands of a raccoon.”
– Rennie Sparks, The Handsome Family
The Cosmic Gospel of Drunken Prayer
Drunken Prayer transcends the bounds of Americana music. Morgan Geer writes songs that could emerge from a highly blissed-out biker bar or a swampy ashram.
The new Drunken Prayer record, Thy Burdens, is an homage to the fiery music of the church. Partnering with Drive-By Truckers’ Bobby Matt Patton, the pair recorded this album in North Mississippi with some of their friends from Appalachia and the Delta including members of MJ Lenderman & the Wind, Band of Heathens, Jimbo Mathis’ group and Wednesday.
After a chance conversation in Northern California with Tom Waits about the music of the church, Morgan took off for Portland, OR to play for bikers at the Queen of Hearts Tavern on Sunday mornings. That’s where the name “Drunken Prayer” was born.
Morgan has since recorded and toured with some of the cornerstones of modern Americana music, and Drunken Prayer is now a stalwart of the burgeoning scene in Asheville, NC.