Mountain Music
February 2009
Volume 2 Issue 2

by Jack Coffman

Despite being voted Best Alt Country/Country/Americana band by the Fort Collins Music Association, no genre title limits this Ft. Collins-based five-piece group's fervent approach to rock music. Motorhome's music is real and raw and encompasses whatever sound is true to the feeling, be it country, rock, folk, or whatever else may come up.

They say their music is kind of like "Rebel Country" -- Waylon Jennings, David Allen Coe, Robert Earl Keen, or Johnny Cash-- but with mandolin, drums, bass guitar, and two electric guitars to give them that hard edge.

With Matt Thornton (guitar, vocals), P-mann (guitar, vocals), Darren Radach (mandolin, accordion), Ben Prytherch (bass), and John Motley (PO BOY DRUMS), motorhome has a big, crunchy, down-home rock sound that is completed by honest, direct, and telling lyrics:

"Cigarette pressed between my lips / beer between my knees. I've been looking for something to satisfy my needs," Thornton's gruff, whisky-soaked, cigarette-stained voice belts out during the first line of motorhome's original "Never Coming Back."

Their goal is to take audiences out of themselves and put them in a more comfortable place, a cozy motor home if you wil, if even for a little while.

"Motorhome's purpose is to entertain people. It doesn't matter what's going on in your life at the moment, weather things or good or bad, our show's give people a place to get away," motorhome guitarist and singer, Matt Thornton, said. "Everything could be falling a part in the real world, but step into a good show with positive energy and life gets better if just for a little while."