Caleb Klauder Country Band

Caleb Klauder's warm sound, authentic and familiar, feels all at once contemporary and vintage, as though it's coming from the porch next-door. Raised between Orcas Island, Washington and Little Cumberland, Georgia, Klauder took his first steps in Knoxville. If his music could invent a genre, it would be New-school Americana, infusing old standards with Northwestern attitude and spinning out modern classics made elegant with Southern charm. Klauder writes his rough-hewn lyrics among the chickens scratching in his garden in Portland, Oregon, where he works as a musician and carpenter and is raising his 13-year-old son, Elijah.

Winner of the Portland Music Awards Outstanding Achievement in Country Music in 2008, Caleb Klauder has been on tour for the last fifteen years performing with Calobo, Pig Iron, The Caleb Klauder Band, The Foghorn Stringband, and with Dirk Powell. He's opened for acts such as JJ Cale, Iris Dement, David Bromberg, and the Del McCoury Band and has shared the stage with Tim O'Brien, Kevin Burke, The Wilders, Uncle Earl, and Justin Townes Earle.  Klauder regularly collaborates with Dirk Powell, Riley Baugus, Betse Ellis, Reyna Gellert, and Justin Townes Earle. 

Klauder has toured extensively with both the Foghorn Stringband and the Caleb Klauder Country Band throughout the US, the UK, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Malaysia playing a variety of stages including the Tonder Music Festival, the Newport Folk Festival, the Rainforest World Music Festival, the Chicago Folk and Roots Festival, Pick-a-thon Roots Music Festival, The Seattle Folk Life Festival, The Bristol Rhythm and Roots Festival, Bumbershoot and the ROMP Festival.  

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Check out these hot videos of The Caleb Klauder Country Band in the studio with Joel Savoy and Jesse Lege at KEXP on Greg Vandy's Roadhouse July, 2010

Caleb Klauder Country Band "Worn Out Shoe"  

Caleb Klauder Country Band "Hole in My Heat"

Joel Savoy and Jesse Lege play "Ouvrez La Porte"  with Caleb's Country Band 

Joel, Jesse play "La Vaise D'Orphelin" with Caleb's Country Band

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From a local Portland Honky Tonk: 
"Worn Out Shoe"

The Scuttlebutt

"Though we're about as far west as can be, Portland doesn't have a lot of go-to honky tonk music. Caleb Klauder is the exception: He plays top-shelf classic honky tonk (and occasionally, bluegrass) with the pained enthusiasm of a grizzled Southerner twice his age. On the brand-new Western Country, Klauder tackles canon staples (like the Red Hayes/Jack Rhodes anti-envy rant "Satisfied Mind" and the aching "What Was I Supposed to do?") with the same passion as his originals, and the line between them pretty much evaporates. Few voices in modern country carry the world-weary authenticity (think Hank Williams Sr., Charlie Monroe, Dwight Yoakam) that Klauder puts forward so effortlessly."  Casey Jarman Willamette Week



Check out the review of Caleb's  new CD "Western Country" on KEXP: http://americanstandardtime.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/true-grit-caleb-and-a-cajun-honky-tonk-party-in-ballard-tonight/

"Caleb Klauder is one of my favorite mandolin players. He just stands straight and delivers true tone and time. There's no pushing or trying to prove anything, but the groove lifts you every time. Caleb's singing and song writing come from that same casually essential place. Call it "old time stream lined".  It'll get you down the road. "  -Tim O'Brien

“If this were somewhere between 1927 and 1949, Caleb Klauder would be a radio star.  Dangerous Mes and Poisonous Yous is the mark of a budding Americana master.”  -The Oregonian

"Caleb Klauder turns out to be a singer-songwriter with a rich country-flavored voice that sounds like Townes Van Zandt one minute and Doug Sahm the next. His honkytonk ditties could easily coax half the bar into that city cowboy shuffling-waltz thing they call dancing these days." - Willamette Week