Fernando Viciconte, the Portland, Oregon troubadour with twenty years of local and national acclaim under his belt including being a 2016 Oregon Music Hall of Fame inductee, crawls from the wreckage of the recent past unbowed. Bruised, but unbroken. The good news is that he has survived major surgery for a throat condition and what could have been existential silence for ‘that voice’. It’s a voice that caused countless zines (Billboard, Magnet, Paste, The Oregonian, No Depression, etc) and fellow musicians (Peter Buck, Don Dixon, Steve Wynn) to rave about the feeling it evokes when Fernando sings his songs of dark despair and faint hope. These rock and roll laments, in both Spanish and English, have captivated an international audience for seven records, countless compilations, and memorable live sets. Fernando has emerged stronger than ever with a full-length LP entitled Leave the Radio On (August 2015, Fluff and Gravy Records), produced by Fernando with Luther Russell (Fever the Ghost, Richmond Fontaine) and Mike Coykendall (M.Ward, She and Him). Last fall, Fernando dropped an early 7″ single as a preview of what is to come. The a-side (“The Dogs”) is the second track on the record, and was featured by KEXP as their song of the day.