Joe's on Weed Street
Monster Energy Outbreak Tour Presents: Blanco Brown with Laci Kaye Booth
Fri
December 2, 2022
8:00 pm
CST
(Doors: 7:00 pm )
Joe's on Weed Street
,
940 West Weed St., Chicago, IL
Ages 21 and Up
$20.00
Blurring the lines between Country and hip-hop music, Blanco Brown makes a southern sound that he proudly calls “TrailerTrap.” It’s a boundary-breaking, multicolored genre of his very own – which draws upon the rawness and storytelling abilities of his two biggest musical influences, Johnny Cash and Outkast.
With his debut album, Honeysuckle & Lightning Bugs, Blanco showed his depth as an artist, juggling multiple roles as the project's songwriter, producer, vocalist, visionary, and multi-instrumentalist, striking a balance between his contrasting backgrounds with a mix of countrified influences and street-smart lingo. The album found Blanco dressing up his rapid-fire lyrics and melodic hooks with layers of lap steel, thumping kick drum, harmonica, spoons, tambourine, banjo, synthesizers, 808 percussion, guitar, and plenty of vocal harmonies. The result is both urban and rural and the world’s first TrailerTrap project. The style of music was born from an optimistic look back at his partitioned upbringing as it taught him the value of diversity and uniting people, things, sounds—which he sees as his purpose in life. He aims to unite people with his music, similarly to the way he fuses the sound of the music he listened to in the trailer park along with the sounds of the Trap.
The way Blanco emanates positivity and light led his longtime friends of the band Parmalee to recruit him to be a part of a unifying song, “Just the Way,” knowing his addition would highlight the song’s message about embracing differences. The matchup led Brown to claim his first No. 1 on Country radio in the US and in Canada with the Platinum-certified song becoming an international success with more than 300 million on-demand. Having been the top played Country song on iHeartRadio in 2021, the song was nominated for “Country Song of the Year” at the iHeart Radio Awards in addition to hitting Top 20 on Hot AC, and spurring a pop mix that features Bryce Vine. The song will also be performed on the 2022 ACM Awards with Parmalee and Brooke Eden.
The hot collaboration isn’t his first rodeo, over the years Blanco worked as a vocal producer with top name artists like Fergie, Childish Gambino, Chris Brown and Kane Brown to name a few, even linking up with Ciara for a remix to “The Git Up”. He is also set to release a “collaboration” with the late John Denver of his iconic song “Take Me Home Country Roads.” He also wrote songs for big names like Monica in addition to working as a background singer.
"I didn't start out trying to make Country music, but these are the sounds I love—and always keep coming back to time and time again. I don't believe in people being trailer trash, either, so I want to put a good connotation on that word. Making TrailerTrap music really feels liberating to me, because I want to bring people together. That's what this music stands for: unity. It's multiple influences and sounds and styles, all coming together."
With his debut album, Honeysuckle & Lightning Bugs, Blanco showed his depth as an artist, juggling multiple roles as the project's songwriter, producer, vocalist, visionary, and multi-instrumentalist, striking a balance between his contrasting backgrounds with a mix of countrified influences and street-smart lingo. The album found Blanco dressing up his rapid-fire lyrics and melodic hooks with layers of lap steel, thumping kick drum, harmonica, spoons, tambourine, banjo, synthesizers, 808 percussion, guitar, and plenty of vocal harmonies. The result is both urban and rural and the world’s first TrailerTrap project. The style of music was born from an optimistic look back at his partitioned upbringing as it taught him the value of diversity and uniting people, things, sounds—which he sees as his purpose in life. He aims to unite people with his music, similarly to the way he fuses the sound of the music he listened to in the trailer park along with the sounds of the Trap.
The way Blanco emanates positivity and light led his longtime friends of the band Parmalee to recruit him to be a part of a unifying song, “Just the Way,” knowing his addition would highlight the song’s message about embracing differences. The matchup led Brown to claim his first No. 1 on Country radio in the US and in Canada with the Platinum-certified song becoming an international success with more than 300 million on-demand. Having been the top played Country song on iHeartRadio in 2021, the song was nominated for “Country Song of the Year” at the iHeart Radio Awards in addition to hitting Top 20 on Hot AC, and spurring a pop mix that features Bryce Vine. The song will also be performed on the 2022 ACM Awards with Parmalee and Brooke Eden.
The hot collaboration isn’t his first rodeo, over the years Blanco worked as a vocal producer with top name artists like Fergie, Childish Gambino, Chris Brown and Kane Brown to name a few, even linking up with Ciara for a remix to “The Git Up”. He is also set to release a “collaboration” with the late John Denver of his iconic song “Take Me Home Country Roads.” He also wrote songs for big names like Monica in addition to working as a background singer.
"I didn't start out trying to make Country music, but these are the sounds I love—and always keep coming back to time and time again. I don't believe in people being trailer trash, either, so I want to put a good connotation on that word. Making TrailerTrap music really feels liberating to me, because I want to bring people together. That's what this music stands for: unity. It's multiple influences and sounds and styles, all coming together."