The Builders and The Butchers: Portland Indie Rock
3/25/202624 min
Music Matters host Darrell Craig Harris interviews The Builders and The Butchers frontman/lead vocalist Ryan Sollee from his home in Portland Oregon to talk about the bands new releases, upcoming shows, and more in this new interview!
About the band
The Builders and the Butchers were formed in the fall of 2005 in Portland, Oregon. The band's first two years consisted of busking, playing house shows, and showing up unannounced anywhere around Portland where people were gathered.
Folks began to take notice and the band transitioned slowly, going from playing on the floor o...
Clips
Transcript preview
First 90 secondsDarrell Craig Harris· Host0:00
[laid-back music] Welcome to Music Matters Podcast with Darryl Craig Harris talking about all things music with celebrities, artists, music business insiders, and more.
Speaker 20:15
Ryan Solle from Builders and the Butchers, how you doing today?
Ryan Sollee· Guest0:24
Great. How you doing?
Speaker 20:25
I'm very good. So you are up in Portland, correct?
Ryan Sollee· Guest0:27
Yep. Yeah.
Speaker 20:29
You guys are a Portland-based band. Um, you've been around for quite a while, I think since 2005, right?
Ryan Sollee· Guest0:34
That's right. That's right, yeah.
Speaker 20:36
Yeah, so for most bands, that's a lifetime. It's, it's pretty rare to be able to keep it together for that long. Um, you guys have your, your seventh album coming out on April 3rd, um, called No Tomorrow. So h- how, how have you guys been? You, it sounds like you've been very busy, and I know you, you do a lot of shows too as well.
Ryan Sollee· Guest0:52
Yeah, you know, we're, we're not as busy. You know, the height of the touring aspect of the band was kinda like 2008 to maybe 2012. We toured a ton. Um, and then we had kids and got married and had to get different kinds of jobs where we couldn't just, like, you know, have a, you know, a pizza delivery job and quit it to go on tour. We had had, kinda had to do... So we've, we've kind of really, um, played a lot less, but consistently every year, you know, we play. We try to play 20 or 30 shows different places and mix it up and try to be str- strategic, but, you