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Jefferson Berry & the UAC will release their Americana, folk, and jam inspired Prairie Fire, on June 9, 2023. The eleven original songs featured on the new album find Jefferson Berry’s signature combination of storytelling in the Urban Folk tradition accompanied by the skilled precision of the musicians in the UAC. “The songs on this record tell stories of relationships that I hope will be familiar.” Berry explains, “they are political relationships, love relationships and those relationships with one’s own path...

From junior high school on, Jeff Otto had a guitar in his hand and a gig to go to, everything from power trios to cover bar bands to coffee house solo gigs and “anything in between.”  But when his first child was born, he stopped gigging and made up for it with a weekly jam session that began to yield songs.  “We were doing some gypsy music, an improvisational mixture of stuff.  It was really east meets west.  Boris sounded east and Garcia west and so we chose the name Boris Garcia.”

Soon! As the follow up to their critically lauded 2020 release  Double Deadbolt Logic, the album was written and recorded during quarantine. The LP’s first single, “We’ll Soon Be Together” premiered via Americana Highways who cheered, “you’ll be flooded with a sense of needed reassurance on this one, in a song of promise and hope.”  The band will play two local dates to celebrate the album’s release on May 22nd at Jamey's House of Music and May 23rd at Malelani Cafe. Americana for better urban living, Soon! tells stories of city people through the medium of acoustic-jamban...