Naturally, I couldnt resist sharing the story with Calabrese, who responded with a hearty laugh. We had a few very lucky breaks, with some television appearances, with some live concerts that we were able to be a part of. The combination of that, raising kids, and getting through a pandemicand knowing, once it lifted, wed have to get right back to work to pay our mortgages and rentit was daunting. We all have our own heroes, but its also really gratifying to have spent enough time with the same band that you can kind of relate as a unit to other units of the past as well. Playing bars in various stages of dive, some worse than others, some a lot better than others. Fifteen years and nine albums later, with a handful of world tours and television appearancesunder their belt and over a million monthly listeners on Spotify, Lake Street Dive has been more successful than they could have dreamed of back in those early college days. Did Stephen try and invite himself to sing with you or were you all too intimidating, even for him? We had a couple of tumultuous years early on where we were trying to balance those things with Lake Street Dive. "I'm going to hang up my trumpet, and let someone else take a turn on the tour bus." Mike went on to thank the fans . His work has appeared in the pages of the Chicago Tribune, Time Out Chicago, Time Out New York, Crains Chicago Business, Advocate magazine, and Mobil Travel Guides. We also look at a lot of the soul icons, the Sam Cookes, the Aretha Franklins. We quickly found that the spirit of First Ave was very much carried over into that newer environment. Mike McDuck Olson is a colorful onstage dresser, but hes arguably the member of Lake Street Dive most able to blend into a crowd. Lead singer Rachael Price was still under contract with another label, Claire Vision. Interview with Mike "McDuck" Olson, Lake Street Dive's Guitarist/Trumpeter. This needs to change, and that is why I chose to review this album. The now-Brooklyn-based band formed in 2004 when its founding members met while attending the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. [7], Lake Street Dive released their first Signature Sounds Recordings album, Lake Street Dive, in November 2010. Support our continued efforts to highlight the best of Charleston with a one-time donation or become a member of the City Paper Club. Its made everybodys cats and kids celebrities. But theres more than one angle to such a deep song, which Price and Kearney wrote in 2019. In 2005, bandmember Bridget Kearney won the Jazz Category of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest with the band's performance of her song "Sometimes When I'm Drunk and You're Wearing My Favorite Shirt". Lake Street Dive is an American band founded in 2004 in Boston, Massachusetts. Playing First Ave, its the kind of gig where if we all somehow tragically died after the last note, we could pretty much say that we had had a very full musical life without any regrets. efore that, lets get to know Lake Street Dives local connection. Click to enable/disable essential site cookies. Lake Street Dives latest album, Obviously, recorded what was ultimately a brief moment in the bands life, with the then quintet now returned to a foursome, with drummer Mike Calabrese, bassist Bridget Kearney, lead vocalist Rachael Price, and keyboardist Akie Bermiss (left to right). |. There was a lot of our own pride on the line because we were calling ourselves producers but it had to be an egoless experience, because you had to be able to surrender yourself to the rest of the band instead of a hired-gun fifth or sixth party, since Akie [Bermiss] was there too and very heavily involved. This one was really our baby, more so than anything else.