I'll be jumping around from the Irish Fest, where the ale will flow, to the Rock the Light (where the taps will be shut off) and trying to squeeze in some time at the Jazz & Blues fest out at the Woodlands. I'm also going to try to catch Mike Dillon's Go-Go Jungle at the Brick on Saturday night. Look for updates all weekend. Plus, Bill Brownlee will be out in Independence on Saturday, catching Eric Church at Santa-Cali-Gon Days.
Speaking of church: All you Rock the Light fans should know the Catholics are celebrating Mass at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, before the Irish Fest begins its third and final day. May the twain meet.
Shows big and small coming to town
One of my favorite bands at Wakarusa this year is/was the gutbucket Delta blues trio Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band. A reader, Chris Williams, phoned in to let me know the reverend and his band will be in town for several shows this month: Sept. 12th they're at the Trouser Mouse in Blue Springs; Sept. 15th they're at Davey's Uptown; Sept. 16th they're at the Bottleneck. They'll also perform at the Bikers for Babies Charity Ride on Sept. 10. Have a listen from here from their album "Big Damnation."
Other shows to get torqued about: Nina Nastasia at Record Bar, Sept. 15; Junior Brown and Webb Wilder, Sept. 23 at Knuckleheads Saloon; KMFDM at the Beaumont Club, Sept. 30; Tenderloin reunion at Davey's, Oct.6 (with the Architects) and Oct. 7 (with American Catastrophe); Social Distortion, Placebo, She Wants Revenge, the Architects and Blackpool Lights, Oct. 29 in Westport.
Music on the way in the near and distant future
Some upcoming albums to recommend or look forward to:
Los Lobos: "The Town and the City," due Sept. 12; Madeleine Peyroux, Sept. 12; Nina Nastasia: "On Leaving," due Sept. 19. D.J. Shadow, "The Insider," due Sept. 19; Solomon Burke, "Nashville," Sept. 26; the Hold Steady, Oct. 3; Sunny Sweeney (left): "Heartbreakers Hall of Fame," due Oct. 31. Sweeney is a singer/songwriter/hottie from East Texas with a voice that is part Natalie Maines and part young Lucinda Williams and a style that pays deep respect to Loretta Lynn. "Heartbreakers" is a mix of covers and originals. Covers include 'Mama's Opry," an Iris DeMent song.
The Embarrassment as comic-book heroes
Joel Orff is a cartoonist for The Pulse, a free weekly in Minneapolis. He has a strip called "Great Moments in Rock 'n' Roll." For that strip, he solicits stories from fans and then draws strips to go with their stories. A guy named Fowler Jones wrote to Orff about the Embarrassment show in Lawrence last month; he also sent the review that ran in The Star. Click on the image to the left for a somewhat blurry rendition of the strip (sorry; the conversion to j-peg was not kind). Orff thinks it will appear in the paper the week of Sept. 3; you'll get a clearer copy then. You can visit his archive "Great Moments" (which aren't always about rock 'n' roll) here. Be sure to check out the one on Sonic Youth.
|Timothy Finn, The Star
Recent Comments