Artist · chart history
Blitzen Trapper
Band Portland United States Formed 2000 US country/folk/rock band
Blitzen Trapper formed in 2000 in Portland, United States. Blitzen Trapper has 23 chart appearances on 20 radio countdowns from 12 stations on RockLists, spanning 2009–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Furr”, which appears on 6 lists with a best position of #234. The station that charted Blitzen Trapper most often is The Colorado Sound (Fort Collins–Denver, CO), with 8 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2009.
Blitzen Trapper have been rattling around Portland since 2000, playing a restless, shape-shifting take on country, folk and rock that never settles in one place for long. Eric Earley sings and plays guitar, harmonica and keys, and he and drummer Brian Adrian Koch are the founders who have stuck it out through every lineup change.
They put out their first three albums themselves, the third being Wild Mountain Nation in 2007, which critics loved, and Sub Pop signed them that summer. Furr followed in 2008, and it's a beauty: a fireside record of harmonica, acoustic strum and Earley's campfire-tale storytelling, with the title track a wandering, woodsy folk song that landed near the top of a year-end list of the best singles of 2008. Destroyer of the Void and American Goldwing kept the praise coming, the latter with the easy-rolling "Love the Way You Walk Away".
VII came out on Vagrant in 2013, All Across This Land followed on October 2, 2015, and Wild and Reckless took them back to their own label, LidKerCow, in 2017. At the end of 2019 Erik Menteer, Michael Van Pelt and Marty Marquis retired from the band; Holy Smokes Future Jokes came out on Yep Roc in 2020, and Earley and Koch were back on the road with a new lineup by 2022.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Blitzen Trapper on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Furr | 6 | #234 | – | – | |
| 2 | All Across This Land | 5 | #47 | – | 2015 | |
| 3 | Black River Killer | 1 | #6 | – | 2009 | |
| 4 | Love the Way You Walk Away | 1 | #20 | – | 2011 | |
| 5 | Summer Rain | 1 | #329 | – | – | |
| 6 | Silver Moon | 2 | #646 | – | – | |
| 7 | I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow | 1 | #528 | – | – | |
| 8 | Thirsty Man | 1 | #68 | – | 2014 | |
| 9 | Masonic Temple Microdose #1 | 1 | #69 | – | 2020 | |
| 10 | Wild and Reckless | 1 | #74 | – | 2017 | |
| 11 | Gold For Bread | 1 | #79 | – | 2009 | |
| 12 | Fletcher | 1 | #84 | – | 2011 | |
| 13 | Heaven and Earth | 1 | #83 | – | 2010 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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