this monday at the hideout
Lynyrd Cohen, a/k/a Leonard vs Skynyrd, as two 1970s icons duke it out via my quintet's sensitive musical channeling. The kind of clever club programming that bored, frozen Chicagoans thrive on.
in 2-1/2 hours at the hideout
I -- huh? Well that one snuck up on me. As if it does any good to announce it now, but I'll be playing mostly things I wrote with a quartet of acoustic guitar (me), more-or-less ambient electric guitar (Robbie Gjersoe), organ (Scott Stevenson), and string bass (Beau Sample).
this saturday's show at unity temple in oak park...
...is doing very nicely in advance sales but still room left. If you're thinking of coming -- what's stopping you, neuralgia?? -- please buy your tickets ahead of time (use the link on the posting below). To the literally hundreds who have bought tickets already, many thanks. It is for you that I put on fresh strings nightly and play and sing as if my morphine habit depended on it. All right, this will be a pulse-quickener of a show if the rehearsal yesterday was any sign...and that's the last I'll say about it, scout's honor!
big shew in oak park!
The time has come for me to stump for another one-of-a-kind show, and this one's in an extraordinary venue just west of Chicago. The Unity Temple, a cubist, steeple-less Unitarian churchhouse built in 1905 by Frank Lloyd Wright, has an annual (and very selective) series of concerts. By mistake, they invited me to play there, and without hesitating, I said yes thank you. The roster of artists past is flattering company indeed.
Since this environment will be so far removed form the cathouses and viaducts where I usually hold forth, I thought I would do something different, something that would sound good in the room and highlight the churchy side of my many-hued persona. A set of songs that would keep the angry fist-shaking at heaven to a bare minimum and thereby keep the oaken rafters from crashing onto my head. I envisioned -- now I'm being serious (throat-clearing noises) -- a small group of instruments that would make sounds half pointed (plick!) and half susurrant (rrrmmm). I asked three men to accompany me for the date (Scott Stevenson, Rob Gjersoe, and Beau Sample) that could approximate this balance -- create a pretty steady ambience, but also step out and play some soul-stirring solos here and there.
I certainly don't want to suggest that this will be some kind of ultra-solemn Philip Glass requiem. I plan to mouth off, and play (a few) funny songs, as ever. Maybe even take issue with God's handiwork, because I think Unitarians are down with that. But I look forward to doing a show that lets me quiet down a little and focus on voice and lyric; and the orchestration, the particular quartet, and the place all suggest something memorable and unrepeatable might occur. Am I overselling like crazy? I hope you'll get advance tickets for this one. The lowdown:
Unity Temple
875 Lake Street, Oak Park IL
Saturday, January 28 at 7:30P
call Susan at 708-445-8955, or get tickets online at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/198770
this monday at the hideout
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