Poor Man

About

Poor Man began as a long distance project in 2008 when members Ian and Peter Murray were living the Bay Area and Christian Wargo and Casey Wescott were on tour with their band Fleet Foxes. In pairs, the musicians created demo tapes and sent them back and forth until the project developed enough material to play intimate shows at house parties around Seattle under monikers like Rabbit Kingdom and Cookie Mask. When the band opened up for Neumos under the name Peppermint Majesty, the crowd took to its smooth rock and roll sound and before long the four friends decided on the name Poor Man, after Wargo's favorite Canned heat song, and were signed to Sub Pop Records. Poor Man's debut effort, the Illusion EP, was recorded in several different bedrooms, studios and practice spaces, and with the help of engineer Jared Hankins it was released in 2012.