If you go to the Bandcamp page for The Sons of Rainier’s latest album, “Take Me Anywhere,” you’ll find a very brief review left by a supporter — user name: douglasdupont — of the throwback roots-music band:

“Think ‘The jukebox in the bar your car broke down in front of.’”

Yeah … he pretty much nailed it. Kudos, douglasdupont.

One of the Pacific Northwest’s best-kept secrets, The Sons of Rainier — who play Tuesday at Silver Moon Brewing — formed in Seattle in 2017 as a vehicle for the tunes of Devin Champlin, a songwriter and luthier now based in Bellingham, Washington. A year later, they released “Down in Pancake Valley,” an album of “old timey gospel, call and response doo-wop, and Doc Watson country-folk,” according to a review by Ethan J. Barrons of the website Northwest Music Scene.

The band toured a bit and made a name for itself, especially on the West Coast, before members started getting busy with other things and scattering to other places. Singer and percussionist Sam Gelband moved to New Orleans and played in other projects. Bassist Charlie Meyer operates a carpentry business on Whidbey Island. Singer and guitarist Dean Johnson made a terrific solo album.

Champlin moved north, opened his guitar shop, and released his own terrific solo material.

The hectic calendars and the distance — not to mention the COVID-19 pandemic — slowed the Sons’ activity significantly.

“We’re all spread out and we have multiple irons in multiple fires, so we can only play a few times a year,” Champlin said. “We could push it more, but I think we’re just at capacity with regard to everybody’s schedule.”

‘Take Me Anywhere’

The good news is they found time to make “Take Me Anywhere,” a collection of 15 tracks that showcase not only the Sons’ uncommon musical bond — they are tight and nuanced, a whole greater than the sum of their parts — but also Champlin’s unique songwriting point of view, which looks back more than it pushes forward.

Indeed, the album sounds like the jukebox in the bar your car broke down in front of, or perhaps sitting in that broke-down car, slowly rolling through hazy AM radio stations — first the one focused on classic country, then the one playing gently swaying ’60s pop, then the one with the cool playlist of old soul music, and then the free-form station that just floats around a wonderful sonic world, from surf guitar and Southwestern vibes to softly glowing keys, barbershop harmonies and hints of psychedelia. (You had no idea AM radio was so cool, did you?)

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There’s a reason that all of that comes through in the Sons’ music, of course.

“I’m a record collector and I’m a nerd for old music. I listen to a ton of old stuff, and so some of that ’50s and ’60s sound that we have comes directly from old records I’m inspired by,” Champlin said. “It’s intentional, you know? When you listen to us and our songs feel nostalgic, it’s because I was going for a certain kind of sound. So it’s nice that it translates that way.”

If You Go

What: The Sons of Rainier,

with The Deslondes

When: 7 p.m. Tuesday

Where: Silver Moon Brewing,

24 NW Greenwood Ave., Bend

Cost: $20

Cost: silvermoonbrewing.com