What do you mean, you’ve never heard of Butch Hancock? I suppose you’ll also say you haven’t heard of Joe Ely or Jimmie Dale Gilmore or the Flatlanders, either? Well, how about Buddy Holly or Bob Wills? Ah yes, now we’re getting somewhere. And that somewhere is Lubbock, Texas. That dusty town way out west […]
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sound patrol 10-21-04
Tom WaitsReal Gone (Anti) At 54, Tom Waits is weirder than he’s ever been, which is quite an accomplishment when you consider that he’s been weird — deeply, uniquely, unrepentantly weird — for at least 20 years now, when Swordfishtrombones erupted like a beautiful boil on the polite posterior of the singer/songwriter scene. Over the […]
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music notes 10-21-04
• Anybody remember the Brown Bag Blues Boy, Tim McKean? They say he came from Illiopolis, hung out in Springfield, then relocated to Los Angeles in the late 1970s. While in the capital city, McKean performed with the Blues Boys, Sangamon Valley Hoedowners, and Finnegan’s Wake, and as a solo act. Welcome him back to […]
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now playing 10-14-04
During a recent excursion to a downtown nightclub, I was accosted by a local musician who was more than a little disturbed at the prevalence of karaoke nights in our Pub Crawl calendar. “That’s not live music,” he declared. “It shouldn’t be in with the bands.” For fear that I might not get the full […]
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music notes 10-14-04
• Tony Bennett is bringing his large intestine, his small intestine, his liver, and all of his other organs — except his heart, which remains in San Francisco — to the fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis on Saturday, Oct. 16. On Tuesday, Oct. 19, the Fox hosts R.E.M., simultaneously the world’s most hated and […]
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sound patrol 10-14-04
Elvis Costello and the Imposters The Delivery Man (Lost Highway) On the title track of his latest album, Elvis Costello sings, “I want to be your delivery man.” True to form, he’s layered the line with several coats of irony, taking the perspective of a murderer who served time for a minor offense and is […]
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now playing 10-7-04
At the very real risk of slipping into the credibility-robbing practice of using a public forum to shamelessly self-promote, here I go. This Sunday, Oct. 10, at 8 p.m. (8 p.m. sharp, you slackers), we — that is, Tom Irwin and the Hired Hands — intend to celebrate 10 years of performing (almost) every Sunday […]
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sound patrol 10-7-04
Sally Timms In the World of Him (Touch and Go) Sick unto death of so-called security moms and their effect on the upcoming election? Are women the new white men? The latest solo CD by Mekons singer Sally Timms seems spookily relevant, even though its timing is probably coincidental; In the World of Him has […]
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music notes 10-7-04
• The Springfield Classical Guitar Society, now in its seventh year of presenting some of the world’s best classical guitarists in the capital city, submits for your approval composer and performer Brad Richter at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 9, at the First Presbyterian Church (321 South Seventh St.). Then, in an interesting scheduling move, the […]
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music notes 9-30-04
• Got a craving for that crazy Dixieland sound, but finding a trip to New Orleans a bit difficult right now? Rest easy, my friend, and slip down to Robbie’s (4 Old State Capitol Plaza, 528-1901) on Friday evening as the Big Easy comes to you. Riverboat 5 +1 sports all the trappings of a […]
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sound patrol 9-30-04
Nelly Sweat (Fo Reel/Universal) Nelly is all things to all people — there are no multiplatinum weirdoes — and therein lies his charm. Beloved by all races, the photogenic St. Louis rapper is blasted from suburban softball fields and ghetto stoops alike. Strippers grind to him; preteens load him on their iPods; politicians praise him […]
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now playing 9-30-04
When a kid from New Jersey sings country music as if he had been born in the back of a pickup truck on brown-paper chicken-feed sacks as Mom waited for Dad to come out of the tavern, you know that times have changed. Moot Davis serves up honky-tonk music like someone who’s been spoonfed bad […]
