ONE-2-ONE BAR PRESNETS

The Sanco Loop

at ONE-2-ONE BAR

Time: 6:30pm     Day: Friday     Doors: 6:00pm     Ages: 21+ Ages     Price: $7
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The Sanco Loop is the latest musical incarnation of Austinite, Peter Wagner.

Wagner spent the late ‘90’s playing post-punk originals and Hüsker Dü and Sonic Youth covers on 6th Street alongside wah-soaked blues and funk bands. He discovered the Electric Lounge almost too late and then moved over to Beerland and the Red River scene in the early 2000’s. By the second half of the decade, he and his bashy indie-pop band, The Mercers, were pretty well at home playing all over town.

But Wagner left Austin for a tiny town in West Texas where he did ranch and oilfield work and played twangy originals and Merle Haggard covers in honky-tonks. He recorded a solo album, Grasshopper, with a group of Ft. Worth country session players, including drummer Pete Coatney (Jack Ingram) and steel player Roger Ray (Jason Boland and the Stragglers). Before making it back to Austin in 2015, he would spend time in Boise, ID playing in bars and selling life insurance, and on the Arkansas side of Texarkana, where he would have a son and start recording The Sanco Loop’s first self-titled record.

Available everywhere digitally, the record is made up of fuzzed-out acoustic guitar, atmospheric pedal steel, Rhodes, synthesizers, looped drum beats, and Wagner’s surprisingly wide-ranging voice. If James Blake and Peter Gabriel tried to make a red dirt country record, this might be what they’d come up with.

Wagner has since teamed up with Carey Bowman (The Coffee Sergeants) on pedal and lap steel, former Mercers drummer Ethan Herr, and 22-year-old bass phenom Augie Gmitter. See them live around Austin and beyond.
http://sancoloop.com