Thursday Live at the Odd Fellows

Updated: February 14, 2023

At the Davis Odd Fellows Lodge – March 2, 2023. 

The March 2nd Davis Odd Fellows Thursday Live! show will welcome Geoffrey Miller and his rockabilly band.

Doors open at 7 p.m. with music starting at 7:30 p.m. All ages are welcome. Thursday Live! shows are free, but donations are encouraged to support the musicians. The dance floor will be open for this show!

Boogie woogie cheating songs, love-lamenting ballads, rockabilly country bops, and chicken pickin’ guitar solos—the tones of Geoffrey Miller’s style of country music tell a life’s story.

Miller’s latest release, Leavin’ 101 (2022), is rooted even more deeply in the Bakersfield Sound he grew up on. “Fans of hardcore Bakersfield sounds will delight in Miller’s latest”, wrote Country Music People Magazine, giving the album 4.5 out of 5 stars! Lonesome Highway commented in review of the album, “There is little doubt that anyone with an affection for [what] the Bakersfield sound has come to mean…will recognize Miller as a frontrunner in delivering it..”

Miller began making a name for himself as a country guitar player around Sacramento in the early 2000s. In 2008, he toured with the vintage honky tonk band, Rowdy Kate, in Europe and began playing with numerous roots country bands back home as his reputation grew. Miller also began earning songwriter credits, contributing two original songs to Rowdy Kate’s 2007 EP.

In 2010, Miller formed the rockabilly trio Twilight Drifters as the guitarist and lead singer. The Twilight Drifters recorded three albums including numerous original songs by Miller, and were nominated for an Ameripolitan Award in 2018.

In 2015, Miller’s love for western swing music led to him co-found the trio Sactown Playboys with Olen Dillingham and Zack Sapunor paying homage to legends such as Bob Wills, Billy Jack Wills, Les Paul, and Jimmie Rivers. In 2018, Miller was inducted in the Sacramento Western Swing Society Hall of Fame.

Thursday Live! is sponsored by the Davis Odd Fellows Music and Concert Committee with the support of KDRT radio and Jim Buchanan. If you’d like to sign up for our email list contact Juelie Roggli at juelrog@gmail.com