Plenty of musicians use YouTube as an outlet for loopy “behind-the-scenes” footage. Not David Olney. Then again, he’s been at it a lot longer than the goofy video-makers, and his aims are different. Olney’s YouTube offerings are seriously impressive poetry recitations, of which Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is only the most recent installation. Olney’s proven himself many times over to be a blues-darkened singer-songwriter with a method actor’s imagination. Now he’s underscoring his dramatic and literary sensibilities. (Besides the on-camera stuff, he recently contributed a short story to Amplified.) These days, Sergio Webb (on guitar) and Jack Irwin (on percussion) round out the small combo that lends Olney’s songs a sinewy mystique. Norm’s is a spot they play pretty regularly, and it’s where they recorded a live album last year. This time they’ll be joined by Jonathan Bright, Russell O'Brien—who’re at work on a trippy, harmony-rich rock project—and Tom Littlefield.
Sat., Aug. 22, 9 p.m., 2009
Sat., Aug. 22, 9 p.m., 2009
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