“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.
Drunken Prayer plays a kind of holy blues. The new record, Thy Burdens, is an homage to the fiery music of the church. Morgan learned most of these hymns from his great-grandmother in Mobile, AL. 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.
Wearing a white bespangled jumpsuit his mother made for him, Morgan won a 4th grade talent show singing Elvis’ “Hound Dog”. After school he was threatened with a thumping by a neighborhood thug if he didn’t “sing Elvis!”. This was Morgan Geer’s introduction to the music industry.
“Drunken Prayer” was born after a chance conversation in Northern California with Tom Waits. After that Morgan Geer was off into the mission field of Portland, OR to play unrestrained church music to bikers at the Queen of Hearts Tavern.
Drunken Prayer is now a stalwart of the burgeoning scene in Asheville, NC., and Morgan Geer has recorded and toured with some of the cornerstones of what we call modern Americana music.
Morgan lives in the Smoky Mountains of Southern Appalachia.