Who's Everyone Seeing Live?

[ChicoHarris]

First, the Ole Miss Rebels Pride of the South marching band down the street in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium as the Rebels are whipping the University of Kentucky butt

and then tonight across the street at Proud Larrys:
WAAVES
http://www.myspace.com/wavves
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Waaves/106737932693580
With the bad boys of lower San Diego opening:
Christmas Island
http://www.myspace.com/xmasisla


and I will go across the square at some point to hear Two Cow Garage at the Blind Pig:
http://www.myspace.com/twocowgarage
Here they are they are at Twangfest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0kY35W-eyk

[ChicoHarris]

Two Cow Garage was very good, I LOVED Christmas Island and it was 4th of 5th time I had seen WAVVES and by far the best. I think it was the first time for me since Jay Reatard's backing band signed on to WAVVES.

EXCELLENT show out at Taylor, Mississippi tonight:
Michael Hurtt and his Haunted Hearts at Taylor Grocery and Catfish
http://www.myspace.com/hauntedhearts
They just played the Ponderosa Stomp festival in New Orleans, backing up Johnnie Allan, Joyce Harris, Jay Chevalier, Lee Martin and others in the Gulf Coast Review.
http://www.ponderosastomp.com/

[Zip City]

Band of Horses on Tuesday, DBT on Wednesday!!!!

[ChicoHarris]

Can't decide about tonight:
either
Widespread Panic at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville
http://www.myspace.com/widespreadpanic

or

Mister Baby at Main Squeeze Juice Bar in Oxford:
http://www.myspace.com/misterbabymusic

[ChicoHarris]

First, tonight:
Cary Hudson of Blue Mountain, Star and Micey of Memphis and the Minor Adjustments at Music In The Hall, in a building on the town square the Yankees didn't burn down:
http://musicinthehall.com/
http://www.myspace.com/caryhudson
http://www.myspace.com/bluemountainlauriecary
http://www.myspace.com/starandmiceymusic
http://www.theminoradjustments.com

Then some Archnemesis at Proud Larrys
http://www.myspace.com/archnemesismusic
And I hope I catch some of the opener, The Revivalists, who I think will be better:
http://www.myspace.com/revivalists


But then my main attraction, at Snackbar tonight: Star & Micey!
A unique Memphis band with a full and colorful sound that is all their own. I love them. They play free out at Snackbar tonight.
http://www.myspace.com/starandmiceymusic
"Hotel Memphis"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQAy0sfiGlo
This is an excellent video/song that you should watch/hear. I've heard them do this live, and have much appreciation for it.

[The Black Canary]

My GYN at MGH

Ok I thought it was funny, what can I say water logged brain after 4 days of rain

[Zip City]

Band of Horses was fucking amazing.

On top of their amazing set list, they covered "Georgia" by Cee-Lo Green. Alsum!!

[The Black Canary]

Band of Horses was fucking amazing.

On top of their amazing set list, they covered "Georgia" by Cee-Lo Green. Alsum!!

You must be so happy now, finally to have BOH in your face, ringing in your ears la la la la la

Glad you had a great time and they were totally amazing!!!! Kudos Zip

[Zip City]

Tonight I'm seeing some unknown Skynyrd cover band called "Drive-By Truckers" or something

[ChicoHarris]

I should be over in Helena seeing B.B. King tonight...

A full dose tonight and I shall have to ricochet around the town square:

The Yalobushwackers, T- Model Ford and Rogue Wave will be on the live Thacker Mountain Radio show at Off- Square Books today.
T-Model Ford is the 80+-year-old Hill Country blues man who will take your woman away and then tell you about it.
http://www.myspace.com/tmodelford
http://thackermountain.com/


Afterwards I will head straight to Roosters Blues House for the happy hour vocal stylings of Kelley Norris paired with the master guitar playing of Jesse Pinion. Good, good stuff, especially when Kelley sings originals.
http://www.myspace.com/kelleynorrismusic


At Proud Larrys is a incredible night of live music, a benefit for the Highway 61 Blues Museum:
http://www.highway61blues.com/news_hwy_61_blues.html
The Jimmy Phillips Band
Cary Hudson (of Blue Mountain)
http://www.myspace.com/caryhudson
http://www.myspace.com/bluemountainlauriecary
Duff Dorrough of the Tangents, Yalobushwackers and every musicians fantasy
http://www.myspace.com/128748873
T Model Ford and Bill Abel
http://www.myspace.com/tmodelford
http://www.myspace.com/billabel
Jimbo Mathus and the Tri-State Coalition
http://www.myspace.com/jimbomathus


And over at the Lyric Theater is another show many Oxonians are looking forward to and I will have to get over to for some of:
Rogue Wave with Avenue Hearts opening.
Rogue Wave is the California band who spent several months in Oxford recording their latest record at Sweet Tea studio and are the good guys many of us befriended. They were also the focus of the movie D-Tour in which the drummer has to have dialysis on the road.
http://www.roguewavemusic.com/
http://www.myspace.com/roguewave
D Tour trailer:
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuse ... =535595444
This is The Daily Mississippian story on Rogue Wave:
http://www.thedmonline.com/article/rogu ... xford-show
Opening is Avenue Hearts
http://www.myspace.com/avenuehearts

[Bill in CT]

I'm seeing Jackie Greene in NYC tomorrow night.

[Penny Lane]

I'm seeing Jackie Greene in NYC tomorrow night.

me too. Woot Woot. See you later!
(ps i brought your rocky votolato cd)

[bold99]

My next show will be this little band you may of heard of My Morning Jacket....and then the next night they are playing in a little barn owned by another guy you might of heard of Levon Helm...

yes that is for you Penny!

[Penny Lane]

My next show will be this little band you may of heard of My Morning Jacket....and then the next night they are playing in a little barn owned by another guy you might of heard of Levon Helm...

yes that is for you Penny!

Damn I'm jealous. That was uncalled for.

Don't forget they're on Letterman and Fallon next week.

[ChicoHarris]

Excellent live music tonight across the street at Proud Larrys:
The pride of Chicago, The Fruit Bats!
Hear them here:
http://www.myspace.com/thefruitbats

Opening the show will be the pride of Oxford, Sleeping Bulls, featuring the magnificent voice of Mark Adamec:
http://www.myspace.com/sleepingbulls

[ChicoHarris]

There are no bad nights to be at Taylor Grocery and Catfish, but some are a lot better than others and tonight is one of those betters:
Live music entertainment by Jimbo Mathus.
http://www.myspace.com/jimbomathus



Also, since I'll be out at Taylor, I'll have to check out Prince Rama and Light Pollution at the Cats Purring Teen Wing:
http://www.myspace.com/princeramaofayodhya
http://www.myspace.com/lightpollution
http://catspurringms.blogspot.com/



and if I were cool, I'd go to Taylor United Methodist Church for the scared harp singing they're having today. But, not being cool...

[ChicoHarris]

Next door at the Lyric Theater tonight, a band I'm very much looking forward to:
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes.
A ten-member explosion of joyful hooks and cleverness, this band is the opposite of boring. Hear them here:
http://www.myspace.com/edwardsharpe
http://www.edwardsharpeandthemagneticzeros.com/

Excellent performance on the David Letterman show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb9jY8yAxgs

Here, you can hear an entire Edward Sharpe show from the 2010 Newport Folk Festival:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... =128723006
Here is what the National Public Radio Web-site has to say about Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic zeroes:
You can't turn on a TV these days without hearing a song by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros: "Janglin'" and especially "Home" have popped up in countless ads and musical montages, everywhere from American Idol to Community. Still, the absolute best place to take in the 10-piece band's gloriously uplifting ruckus is on the concert stage, where the music takes on the celebratory and intense air of a revival show. When singers Edward Sharpe (a.k.a. Alex Ebert) and Jade Castrinos lock eyes and sing to each other, it conjures images of Johnny and June, if Johnny Cash were a towering figure with dreadlocks and no undershirt. Here, the L.A. band performs live at the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, R.I.

Our girl Candace Achebach interviews Edward Sharpe members about their music and who they are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_B3k8cL ... re=related

[ChicoHarris]

Tonight across the street at Proud Larrys:
West coast reggae and hip hop with three great bands: Rebelution, Zion I and Tribal Seeds.

http://www.myspace.com/rebelution
http://www.rebelutionmusic.com/

http://www.myspace.com/zioni
http://www.zionicrew.com/

http://www.myspace.com/tribalseeds
http://www.tribalseeds.net/

[Zip City]

A.A. Bondy tomorrow night. Anyone seen him?

[ChicoHarris]

A.A. Bondy tomorrow night. Anyone seen him?

Saw him play a killer Sunday afternoon set on the Square here in Oxford earlier this year. a little laid-back for my tastes, but a very capable band.

[uncle rickey]

A.A. Bondy tomorrow night. Anyone seen him?

A few times, twice solo and once with a band. He's more interesting if he's with a band IMO.

Tomorrow: The Woggles (provided I can get out of work in time)
Friday: Roger Waters
Saturday: The Henry Clay People

[Bill in CT]

Ryan Bingham - tonight in NYC

[Tequila Cowboy]

Just read a nice piece on live music and seing the same artists regularly. Pretty relevant 'round these parts:

Rut? Maybe Reliable? Definitely
Steve Johnson



A dedicated fan sees no reason to venture very far from a handful of favorites




This is about how to go to concerts.

It's not about whether you drink beer or don't drink beer, stand in the front or sit in the back, or reward a great guitar solo with aggressive clapping (safe) or your best rebel yell (you sound like a northerner).

It's about the most fundamental decision of all: who to see and why.

Tuesday night I watched Alejandro Escovedo perform live for probably the 20th time in my life, an exhilarating performance at Lincoln Hall that ranged from raucous, near-punk ("Chelsea Hotel '78") to a delicate love ballad ("Rosalie").

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I have seen him in the too-sanctified confines of the Old Town School of Folk Music, both the old space on Armitage and the new one up on Lincoln. I have seen him, many times, out at FitzGerald's in Berwyn, where the big-game trophies perhaps subconsciously inspired one of his more recent songs ("Dear Head on the Wall").

I was there when Escovedo went on after midnight at a rock club near the University of Texas in Austin, and I was one of a relative handful there last summer when he played outdoors in a maybe 100-seat tent in Grant Park while some music-averse, Nashville-friendly hat act vamped on the big stage.

The point is: Anywhere, anytime, Alejandro. And here's why: Escovedo, a 59-year-old wonder of energy, innovation and stagecraft, almost always puts on a great show. He's like pizza or that other thing. Even the bad ones are pretty good.

He's one of about a dozen artists on my must-always-see list because not only do I know that they will deliver, but, more fundamentally, because I have become part of their long-running story and need to see what the next chapter holds.

Among them: Dave Alvin, ex of the Blasters, playing in the style known, inadequately, as "Americana," but by way of a blues roadhouse. Richard Thompson, English folk veteran who makes one guitar sound like three. Joe Ely. Jimmie Dale Gilmore. Gary Louris, the one-time Jayhawk. Former Nashville guy Rodney Crowell, who disappeared, then made, in his 50s, three of the best records of the last decade ("The Houston Kid," "Fate's Right Hand," "The Outsider").

Some women? Fewer, I admit, but: Shawn Colvin. Patty Griffin. And, next week, the tragically underappreciated Kim Richey, first-rate songwriter and possessor of one of the purest voices around; she'll be at Schubas Tuesday, which I hesitate to mention here because it's a tiny room, and I haven't bought a ticket yet.

All of these people, I have seen at least four times and most of them closer to a dozen. Some of you out there are nodding along with me at this record of serial re-attending. I know it because I see some of your faces time and again at these shows.

There was a long-haired guy my wife and I noticed at the first Escovedo show we saw – a revelatory few hours at FitzGerald's in the early 1990s, after his breakthrough "Gravity" record – whom we soon dubbed "Austin guy," because he would be at all the shows we were at featuring musicians from that Texas city; one day, instead of just being in the crowd, Austin guy was at Old Town, working the door.

But there are also many of you, I am sure, who cannot understand why a person would go for the same experience, or a version of it, over and over again. You visit a restaurant, you like it, even love it, but there are so many other restaurants in town. What's new? What's now?

A certain rock critic of my acquaintance (and yours, Tribune readers) has mocked me for my, shall we say, predictability. Even my own life partner, once on my side, usually by my side, now makes fun of me, rather relentlessly, for going to see Canadian agrarian songwriting genius Fred Eaglesmith every single time he comes to Chicago. Fred Eaglesmith comes to Chicago a lot (including Nov. 4 at FitzGerald's, by the way).

But I have two fundamental theories about concert going that all of these people serve. The first is that you are always looking for the best ratio of size of talent to size of room. Ultimate expressions of this: Rodney Crowell or Richard Thompson at FitzGerald's, Escovedo at Schubas.

The second is that you want people who actually know what they're doing on stage. The rock band from Brooklyn that has been written up big in Pitchfork – or the pop band that has a hit on Q-101 – can, perhaps, suddenly fill the Aragon Ballroom. And they sound great on a record, but maybe they can play live, maybe they can't. At best, you'll see a good show, but in a crowded, uncomfortable room, a space that has the music-venue equivalent of a tin ear.

But Escovedo at Lincoln Hall is as close to can't-miss as it gets. Clean, vivid sound in a small space. And beyond the songs, the playing and the singing, Escovedo does what it takes many bands years to master: He varies the texture of his music, and he knows how to shape a show.

Tuesday, he began hard and loud, settled into an acoustic middle section, then used "I Was Drunk," a fast-and-slow epic about bedspins, to transition back into the electric-guitar-based, concluding segment. The encore: a sing-along version of the Rolling Stones' "Beast of Burden" that was pure joy.

Escovedo almost always covers "Beast of Burden." (He did so at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, N.J., this summer, and Bruce Springsteen joined him on stage; video worth seeking on YouTube.) Dave Alvin always plays "Ashgrove." Joe Ely always plays "Me and Billy the Kid" (key lyric: "we never got along").

Those are the foundation pieces; the curiosity and the satisfaction come in seeing how they build a show from there. Which covers will they play? Will the band feature cello and violin this time, or, in the case of Ely for a while, a flamenco guitar? Is Fred Eaglesmith going to do, again, the comic riff about how he had to start writing love songs just to make sure some women would come to his shows?

At Tuesday's performance, Escovedo told of a former producer who had died of cancer (Stephen Bruton) and of his 18-year-old son, Paris, who has his own band and a rebellious spirit Escovedo admires: In Paris' music, he said, there's a lot of yelling and then, "every once in a while, you make out the words 'hate' and 'father.'" Then he sang the new "Down in the Bowery," a song to his son: "I'd buy you a smile in a minute, but would you wear it?"

There is the occasional bad chapter in these stories: One time at Old Town, Rodney Crowell turned nearly half his show over to a performance poet who hadn't been on the bill.

But far more common are the good ones. I have pretty much hated amplification ever since a show at the former Old Town space where Escovedo turned off the mikes and played and sang straight into the room, nothing between our ears and his voice.

This is, I would like to think, a statement in favor of veteran excellence, rather than a defense of old-guy ossification. I love to discover new artists (even as the search has grown less relentless). Josh Ritter, for one, is working into my never-miss rotation (although he's getting awfully popular). I've been listening to an Avett Brothers live album that guarantees I'll go see them next chance I get.

And I would have joined some friends in seeing The National when they played the Riviera on a Sunday at the end of last month. But what could I do? I had already used up my concert-going chits for that weekend because Aimee Mann was in town, and I, of course, had to go see her both Friday and Saturday nights.

[ChicoHarris]

I'm about to walk down the street and hear former President Bill Clinton speak in the Grove at Ole Miss, stumping for Congressman Travis Childers. I hear some Oxford musicians are going to play before he speaks, and I hope it's some of the more rocking ones... and that it sends Clinton into reminiscing about the Gunbunnies in mid-1980s Little Rock. If he grabs a saxophone, it's going to be too cool.
http://www.myspace.com/gunbunniesofarkansas

Then to the Oxford town square later today for the Thacker Mountain Radio Show, with house band the Yalobushwackers and today! Charlie Musselwhite!
I can't miss the pride of Kosciusko, Mississippi, Charlie Musselwhite. He's one of the very best harmonica players in the country, blues or otherwise, and this performance is going to be a superb treat.
http://www.charliemusselwhite.com/
http://www.myspace.com/charliemusselwhite


Tonight I'll get some acoustic Jimbo Mathus at the Blind Pig
http://www.myspace.com/jimbomathus

But I'm happy to finally get the opportunity to hear Oxford band Nine Giants tonight at the Red Star Bar in the Lyric. The band is Gabriel Stanley, Josh Williams, Peyton Thigpen and Ian Kirkpatrick. The little I've heard reminds me of early Colour Revolt with healthy doses of the Alarm and the Cure. Some of the musicians and producers around Oxford that I most admire speak very highly of guitarist/vocalist/lap steel player Josh Williams.
http://www.myspace.com/ninegiantsmusic
Also on this bill tonight at the Red Star is Oxford band Ramble Horse, who have built a strong local following, mostly of girls, for their rock tunes that sometimes lean toward the spacey and slowly melodic.
http://www.myspace.com/ramblehorse
Third band on the bill is the Oxford band Venture Capitalist. These guys plays nice and jangly pop tunes (I like "Blue House" a lot, and "Bridges and Balloons," also. )
http://www.myspace.com/venturecapitalistmusic


I will probably hear a little Moon Taxi at Proud Larrys:
http://www.ridethemoontaxi.com/
http://www.myspace.com/moontaxi

[Clams]

Ryan Bingham - tonight in NYC

Seeing him tomorrow night (Bingham that is, not Bill in CT).

[Penny Lane]

My Morning Jacket: Monday 10/18 T5
My Morning Jacket: Tuesday 10/19 T5
Carl Broemel (Joe's Pub) Wed 10/20
My Morning Jacket: Thurs 10/21 T5
My Morning jacket: Fri 10/22 T5
My Morning Jacket: Sat 10/23 T5


I know it's redundant but had to type it to actually believe it. Unbelievable.
This will probably be the most important concert week of my life.

[Clams]

My Morning Jacket: Monday 10/18 T5
My Morning Jacket: Tuesday 10/19 T5
Carl Broemel (Joe's Pub) Wed 10/20
My Morning Jacket: Thurs 10/21 T5
My Morning jacket: Fri 10/22 T5
My Morning Jacket: Sat 10/23 T5


I know it's redundant but had to type it to actually believe it. Unbelievable.
This will probably be the most important concert week of my life.

You are a rock n roll animal.

Who is Carl Broemel and what is he doing in the midst of your MMJ orgy?

[Penny Lane]

He is the guitarist for MMJ and he has a solo release called "All Birds Say"
Jim is also doing a benefit show at the Beacon w/Elton and Leon Russell on that night off.

[ChicoHarris]

Difficult night tonight: starting with Irish band Hoarsebox.
Hoarsebox plays out at Taylor at Taylor Grocery and Catfish. This band has been living in Oxford on and off for the last year, recording a new record at Sweet Tea studio and playing some lively and honest rock shows around town. These guys can put a song together and also sing and play it.
http://www.hoarsebox.com/home/
http://www.myspace.com/hoarsebox
I will build catfish frames while they and the NEW YORK YANKEES play.

Then, after the NEW YORK YANKEES win,
Tyler Keith and the Apostles play tonight at the Blind Pig. Tyler is from Florida, but when there is a Mississippi Musicians Hall Of Fame, Tyler is in. He's been here 18 years, and in that time he has written some of the most original, rocking and inspiring music ever in the land it came from.
http://www.myspace.com/theapostletk
http://www.myspace.com/thepreacherskids

I will also have to do at least a little Kenny Brown, who plays tonight at Roosters Blues House. In a time when blues influences everything, he is an influencer.
http://www.myspace.com/kennybrownmusic


And since I've never seen them I will have to do some Tauk. All the way from Oyster Bay, New York, tonight at Proud Larrys is the jazz rock fusion of Tauk.
http://taukband.com/
http://www.myspace.com/tauk

Thank goodness this town is tiny and most everything is around the town square.

[Zip City]

AA Bondy had to cancel due to injury