Friday, February 20, 2009
Cream Calendar Clem Snide, Ben Folds at The Ryman, Yee Ha [Updated]
Posted by Steve Haruch on Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:54 PM
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A few musical tidbits for your afternoon.
Clem Snide is back--or, maybe never went away, "regardless of any rumors I may have started to the contrary," says frontman-about-Nashville Eef Barzelay. The band's "new" album (been in the can for years) is called Hungry Bird and comes out Feb. 24 on 429 Records. Clem Snide head out on tour starting Mar. 11, and guess where they're not playing? That's right, Pocatello, Idaho. Guess where else. It's too late to win the contest where Eef Barzelay writes you a song, but you can still go look at the paintings.
Piano man Ben Folds, who is not a novelist, plays the Ryman on Apr. 7. Tickets go on sale a week from today (Feb. 27).
Jamey Johnson, who swept the Scene's Country Music Critics Poll, will play a free show, weather permitting, on Wednesday, Mar. 4 at the corner of 5th and Commerce. High noon. Something tells me he won't be playing "Honky-Tonk Badonkadonk." But I've been wrong before. (Aunt B. probably won't be there.) As I've said before: Outdoor free concerts = good thing.
Still tixx available for the Crue!
Update: The Jamey Johnson show might not happen, due to some issues with the mayor's office. We'll let you know when we do.
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Clem Snide is playing at The Basement next Wed. Feb. 25, along with Dexateens and Caroline Peyton.
For those not in the know, Caroline Peyton is a pioneer of the freak folk scene with 2 self-released LPs from the '70s just reissued by the Numero Group folks. Wonderful jazzy, freeform folk that would appeal to any fan of Joni Mitchell or Linda Perhacs. She lives in Nashville these days and will be the special guest on this bill which was put together for all the independent record store owners that will be in town next week for the AIMS & CIMS convention. Unlike the Morrissey show that fell through, this one is open to the public.
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Just got a clarification from Grimey: Eef Barzelay is playing on the 25th. Sure, he'll probably play a bunch of Clem Snide songs, but he asked to be billed as Eef Barzelay, not Clem Snide.
The Caroline Peyton records were on a Bloomington, Indiana label called Bar-B-Q, which documented the local scene from about 1972 to 1977, and according to the liners were very professionally engineered and produced. The main guy, Mark Bingham, went on to play with Glenn Branca and other avant-garde musicians and runs a well-known studio in New Orleans where people like James Blood Ulmer record. They sound excellent, and "Mock Up" has great, jazzy piano playing from Mark Gray along with Peyton's amazing vocals. It definitely is a precursor to freak-folk. "Intuition" is more eclectic, a really interesting mix of folk, jazz, ECM-style atmospherics and Steely Dan-style chords. Should be fascinating to see her play the material, she apparently did Broadway musicals and Disney voiceover work in later years.
Excellent historical overview, Dustin. And having listened to both records a few times, I agree with your description. If you don't mind, I might bite a few lines in an email blast I'm sending out early in the week to try to build up some demand for the show. I'm anticipating Caroline's performance very much myself and I'm told she is in excellent voice and is quite a picker. Should be great.
Sweet!
I actually won the contest you mentioned in your blog! It's too bad they never posted 'the best of' on the "you ain't no picasso" site, as some of them are pretty great!
I drew this whilst listening to "Me No" over and over again. and again. and again. It's a song that just grabs you, and slaps you with inspiration. That kind of "hey - let's build something" inspirado.
http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?kebe67w7560
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