Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Cream Calendar It's Christmas Here at the Scene....and at The Ryman: Brian Setzer Orchestra Christmas Extravaganza Tonight
Posted by Adam Gold on Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Since tonight is the Scene's annual office holiday party, I'll unfortunately be too busy dodging our SouthComm corporate overlords and hunting for rogue drink tickets and a Xerox machine to make photocopies of ass-cheeks to attend the Brian Setzer Orchestra Christmas Extravaganza at the Ryman. Ah shucks. If your tattoos involve flames, your girlfriend has a Bettie Page haircut and you're favorite movie is La Bamba, despite the knock-down-drag-out arguments you and your friends have over which one of you is more like Vince Vaughn's character in Swingers, then you probably already have tickets in hand to this holiday "ho" down and you're all set to "go daddy-o." I had a thing or two to say about tonight's show in this week's print edish. Peep it:
Hey daddy-o! If you're not content to simply have a merry Christmas, how 'bout having a jump jivin' one? A jump jivin' Christmas is when you celebrate the birth Jesus Christ by changing the lyrics to a yuletide classic such as "Jingle Bells" to say "Oh what fun it is to ride in a '57 Chevorlet." The swing revival might have petered out in 1999, but don't tell it's flagship artist Brian Setzer that. Dude is still stayin' the course. Louis Prima is dead and so is Chet Atkins, and as long that continues to be the case, the former Stray Cats axe-man--who can wail with the best of 'em--will continue to lead his orchestra to the end of the earth. Since the release of 2005's Brian Setzer Orchestra Live: Christmas Extravaganza, Setzer has taken it upon himself to transform into the Jack Frost of jump guitar for the holiday season, to spread swingin' yuletide cheer to only the coolest cats. See for yourself.
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