×Peter Holsapple

Peter Holsapple

Peter Holsapple has played Milwaukee with the Continental Drifters and more recently with The dB’s In a career that saw him tour as part of REM and Hootie and the Blowfish, Holsapple’s deep reverence to the spirit of rock and roll comes through loud and clear in his invigorating new album The Face of 68 .

On Thursday Holsapple plays a pair of Milwaukee shows.

At 3 p.m. he plays a set at Irving Place Records and at 8 p.m. he opens for Steve Forbert at Shank Hall.

Holsapple recently took time to answer for a songwriting career that began in third grade.

On the new album songs like “The Face of 68” and “Larger Than Life” seem to address aging and mortality. Was that on your mind when these songs were written?

Peter Holsapple: That’s exactly what was

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