The set, a brief 75 minutes, nevertheless encompassed 20 songs, as most of the Cactus Blossoms’ four-album catalog is composed of songs that make a vivid impression and end far sooner than you’d like, akin to a sumptuous dream. Torrey and Burkum, making their first Dallas appearance in three years, had help in conjuring their magic - they were supported Friday by their cousin, Phillip Hicks, on bass, as well as Ben Lester on pedal steel and Matt Meyer on drums. CACTUS ALBUM SALES FULLBut when it’s in full flower, as it was Friday night, there is nothing else like it: immaculate tenor voices, springing forth from Torrey and Burkum’s honeyed throats with little apparent effort, gliding along one another, dipping low and soaring high and suffusing the cozy, wood-lined room with the warm glow of satisfaction. The room - an eyeball estimate put the crowd somewhere a hair over a hundred souls - began to shift in their direction, pulled as if by invisible string.īlood harmony, the galvanizing effect of familial voices singing in unison, is a rare delight in modern music, perhaps discounted for its novelty in an age when anything can be summoned digitally. Brothers Jack Torrey and Page Burkum, each with a guitar across their chest, began singing the title track from their most recent LP, One Day, at the stroke of 9. The wry joke in the Cactus Blossoms’ name becomes apparent the moment the singing starts.Īs it happened Friday, on a simmering spring evening on the edge of Deep Ellum inside the venerable old Sons of Hermann Hall, the lovely melodies arrived with little fanfare.
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