"Grew up in Mississippi like a good boy should," sings Jimbo Mathus on the title track to his new album Jimmy the Kid. Mathus is a reformed (mostly) juvenile delinquent who on record and stage deftly incorporates the richly diverse Southern sounds he heard growing up around Clarksdale, Miss. He masterminded the hyper-ragtime, jump blues act Squirrel Nut Zippers, something that started as a fun little project but eventually sold a million-plus CDs in the 1990s. Since then, Mathus has released recordings of his own in a style he rightfully describes as Mississippi Music. He has stayed busy with numerous side-projects, as well, working with Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Elvis Costello and Buddy Guy. Mathus played guitar on Guy's critically acclaimed 2001 album Sweet Tea - which hit No. 1 on Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart. And can be heard performing rhythm and slide guitar on the blues master's Grammy-winning 2003 record Blues Singer.
Mathus also served as guitarist/bandleader for Guy on tour. Mathus started doing Mississippi Music professionally in between Squirrel Nut Zipper projects. Mathus excels as a songwriter, producer, recording artist and at spreading the gospel of Mississippi Music in concert.
Friday, July 8th, 2011. 9pm. $10 advance / $12 day of show. Advance tickets available online and at our local outlets.
Daniel Martin Moore is a singer and songwriter (and a great many other things arguably less relevant to this particular piece of text) from Cold Spring, Kentucky. On the strength of an unsolicited demo he sent us in January of 2007, Sub Pop released Stray Age in October of 2008, a quietly striking album and Daniel's debut full-length. And, in February of 2010, we released Dear Companion, an album written and performed by Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore together, and produced by Jim James from My Morning Jacket and Monsters of Folk.
My name is Haley Bonar (rhymes with Daily Honor), I am a 28 year old singer/songwriter who resides in the lovely village of Minneapolis, MN. I recently wrote, recorded, and am now getting ready to release my new record Golder. Titled after the dreams I had about the record cover being shiny gold, Golder also represents me striving to become a better artist, growing with each song I write.
I've started to think of Holcombe Waller as the forgotten man. When we met in college, in the late 90s, he was the brightest whitest hope among us to save music forever. While the rest of our arty clique was still fucking around trying to find an aesthetic, a style, a sound to glom onto, he was already a veteran - still stoking the embers of an old school, you-can-only-make-it-in-Hollywood-style record deal. Holcombe had delayed his college education for a year, trying to cut hits in Southern California with the financial backing of a music equipment maker trying to extend their empire into the then-bloated yet still-burgeoning recorded music industry.
Sunday, June 26th. 8pm. $8 advance / $10 day of show. Advance tickets available online and at our local outlets.
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After The Rosebuds released Life Like, their fourth album for Merge Records, in 2009, Kelly Crisp packed a few essentials and moved, alone, to Greenpoint in Brooklyn. North Carolina had been the cradle for The Rosebuds, the band Kelly and husband Ivan Howard (or Ivan and Kelly Rosebud, as you might know them) started the very week they got married. But the marriage had been failing for two albums, maybe longer, and it was time to call the relationship off. Ivan and Kelly were done, and The Rosebuds Merge's buoy- ant pop-rock couple who'd youthfully named their first album The Rosebuds Make Out - were in limbo.
****WE ARE SORRY TO REPORT THAT OTHER LIVES HAVE HAD TO CANCEL THEIR SHOW WITH US DUE TO TRANSPORTATION DETRIMENT (Their van blew an engine) The Rosebuds will still go on as planned at their regularly scheduled time slot****
JUST Confirmed to fill in for Other Lives....hometown champions, FLOATING ACTION!!! Check them out here if you want to warm up your palette. http://www.parkthevan.com/floatingaction/free/
Wednesday, June 15, 2011. 9pm. $10 advance / $12 day of show. Advance tickets available online and at our local outlets.
