Heartless Bastards, 2.0

Erika and company pulled the crowd.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090926/ENT03/309260028/

No bar was busier than Grammer’s, the site of Cincinnati expatriates the Heartless Bastards’ set. There was a line through the parking lot out to Liberty Street as the rock band took the stage beneath Grammer’s outdoor tent. And when those folks got in, they discovered beer lines nearly as long. McCabe estimated the crowd between 800-1,000 people.

Now based in Austin, Tex., the Heartless Bastards are three-CDs-deep into their busy, successful career, and they’ve been touring with the Decemberists and Andrew Bird among others this year. The earlier material, recorded as a three-piece band, was reinvigorated thanks to the fourth and newest member, guitarist Mark Nathan. Lead singer Erika Wennerstrom’s witchy wail is still the band’s predominant distinction, but Nathan balanced out everything, whether adding lead runs on a pounding version of Junior Kimbrough’s “Done Got Old” or providing counterpoint to Wennerstrom’s keyboards on “Into the Open.”

ACL live web cast today, Oct.4th

To L&L( Lafayette and Lefty.)

Be sure and tune in at 3:00 to see our gal Erika.

http://aclfestival.com/2009_files/webcast.html

lwj

Glad to see they did Gray-one of my favourite HB tunes.

also I really enjoyed the violin and banjo tunes.

lwj

@Lafayette wrote:

@LWjetta wrote:

ACL live web cast today, Oct.4th

To L&L( Lafayette and Lefty.)

Be sure and tune in at 3:00 to see our gal Erika.

http://aclfestival.com/2009_files/webcast.html

lwj

Sad I missed this. I was already at the Farm Aid show when this aired.

L&L Here is a short review on our gal from Sunday’s performance. (Note the reference to misery “a la LU”)
I believe the HB’s will be headlining in the near future.

http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/music/entries/2009/10/04/live_review_heartless_bastards.html

lwj

@Lafayette wrote:

Following is the podcast from Erika’s On Air at WNKU. I volunteered today at the studio, answering phones during the semi-annual pledge drive. John Patrick, the music host that interviewed Erika, popped his head in and told me Erika barely remembers talking to me at Lu’s reception. She told him she was pretty drunk (but she does remember talking to someone from Cincy, it was just sketchy 😮 ). I laughed and told him I wasn’t quite in the shape she was in, however, if she had seen me later in the night, I was sort of drunk, too. 😆 And, on a Lu sidenote, two other volunteers (there were only 4 of us) piped up and told me they saw Lu in 2003 at the Tall Stacks Festival in Cincinnati and she put on a great great show. I thought that was cool, so of course, we talked about Lu.

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wnku/local-wnku-863466.mp3

Thanks Lafayette -I listened to the original podcast but still have not put up my MasterCard to make a pledge to WNKU public radio. Must do this.
I got Erika’s and the band’s autographs on August 3rd, 2009 at the Kool Haus in Toronto.
Got tickets to see them again at the Kool Haus on November 11,2009, so must get her picture like I did with Lu on Sat. night Oct. 11, 2009 in Toronto to complete my souvenir collection of my favorite two great gals in the biz.
lwj

Good luck with the pic lwj. I was going to ask Erika the night of Lu’s reception, but I knew she wasn’t in any shape. Hopefully, she will swing thru Cincinnati again on her headlining tour next year. I would love to catch HB live.

Re: Austin City Limits TV schedule.

Looks like it’s Jan.23, 2010 to see Erika and the HB’s.
Mark your calendar Lefty.

http://ultra8201.blogspot.com/2009/09/austin-city-limits-reveals-35th-season.html

lwj