Oakley Hall the Man/Oakley Hall the Band

Oakley Hall accompanied at last by Oakley Hall.

September 23, 2007, The Center for the Arts, Grass Valley, CA, 7pm. More information.

Oakley Hall profiled in the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Read an interview with the band and sample their songs at Daytrotter.

How many Oakley Hall books have you read? What is it about that novelist that you found interesting enough to name your band after him?

I liked the cadences in his name a lot. It seemed to suggest something regal, American, and mysterious, simultaneously. I’ve read a handful of his novels and was attracted by the realism and grit of his vision of the west. With Deadwood and Cormac McCarthy, the idea that the west was brutal, is pretty much a cultural given now—but he was a few decades ahead of the curve. “Warlock” is killer. He may have been one of the first guys to de-mythify the frontier. He’s also a cool guy too. We’ve struck up a correspondence. His wife even recently came to a show of ours in San
Francisco.