The Source Staff

David Bowers is celebrating the release of the David Bowers Colony's
first full-length album on Saturday night. Two days later he turns 44
years old.

"For me that's halfway dead, because, ya know, if I made it to 88 that would be pretty sweet," Bowers says.
He
could pass for younger with just a few wispy gray hairs around his
temples and a bone curled through his left ear lobe (a style he says is
inspired in part by the Decemberists' Chris Funk, an acquaintance from
Bowers' Eugene days) but seems comfortable with his age, as well as his
status in the local music scene.

Two Bros, two beers.There was a time when A.

"We walked into Parrilla tonight to get something to eat and it was a
flashback for me of the goals we used to have," says Moon Mountain
Ramblers guitarist and singer Matthew Hyman.
He's referring to the
band's early target of securing a gig at Parrilla Grill, which they did
- playing in the corner of the Westside eatery in front of a garbage
can with no P.A. system. That was in 2000 and now, more than eight
years later, the band is unveiling its new album, Let it All Be Good,
at a much-talked-about Tower Theatre show.
Four-fifths of the
group is gathered in percussionist Dale Largent's home studio space
near downtown Bend before a Friday night rehearsal with a collection of
five or so friends sitting outside the semi circle we've formed in the
center of the room. Beers are sipped freely and frequently by all and
the mood is laid back to the point that it's tough to tell whether or
not the actual interview will actually begin. But soon we're discussing
the band's popularity in Bend, the year-plus recording of its new
record and why they don't mind being called a bluegrass band.