“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 (6/6/25), 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 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.
Morgan started using the moniker “Drunken Prayer” after a chance conversation in Northern California with Tom Waits on the exhilaration of gospel music, and the tension between Sunday mornings and Saturday nights. With that, an ambitious young musician was off into the mission field.
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 Geer lives in the Smoky Mountains of Southern Appalachia.