JAN/FEB 2013 DATES

I went to their site and read the band bio. Based on that, it seems possible they may take hostages. I look forward to a report.

From the website:

Gold Star is the solo project of Los Angeles based singer-songwriter Marlon Rabenreither (The Sister Ruby Band). Gold Star’s foray into retrospective melancholy looks through the prism of acoustic American music with an unapologetic vulnerability and an eye towards loss and heartbreak.

Gold Star’s self-titled debut EP – scheduled for release on February 19, 2013 – is an organic collection of songs within a stripped-down sonic environment; it fuses acoustic simplicity and warm harmonies with deconstructed Americana elements and intertwines intricate fingerpicking with ambient organ, wurlitzer and steel guitar, all the while defying the singer-songwriter archetype.

I picked a bad week to quit sniffing glue.

From Walter’s website:

A Cuban-American whose parents fled Castro’s Havana with him still in the womb, Walter Salas-Humara was raised bilingual just across the Florida Straits in Fort Lauderdale. College at University of Florida in Gainesville and a residency with the Vulgar Boatmen left him with a lifelong habit of Mudcrutch/Tom Petty-style crunchy guitar riffs. Chasing the punk prairie fire to New York just in time to sift through the ashes, he formed The Silos in 1985 with guitarist Bob Rupe and violinist Mary Rowell, plugging the main cable of American rock idiom into the jerry-rigged soundboard of Velvets-era feral experimentalism. The unlikely result, as evidenced by About Her Steps (1986), the seminal Cuba (1987) and their RCA debut The Silos (i.e., The One with the Bird on the Cover, 1990) was a loose-limbed conceptual country-rock that in turn influenced (if not outright inspired) the alt-country No Depression movement just around the corner. The band was voted Best New American Band in Rolling Stone Magazine’s Critics’ Poll of 1987 and appeared on Late Night with David Letterman in 1990.

Holy shit. Thank God Stoger will be there to explain all this music to me.

A reunion! Yes.

I saw Kenneth was opening for the shows I’m attending. I know I’m going to like him from what I’ve heard via his website and YouTube. It will be interesting to see if he plays sans shirt.

Wow, just now catching up with this info on openers: thanks to all who dug up stuff. I can’t speak to Marion and Kenneth, but we may get a stripped-down “Changed the Locks” (is that oxymoronic?) from Walter S-H; the Silos once recorded it, and I’ve heard it live from them once, on a bill with Anne McCue I think. Have also seen them with Jon Dee Graham. Check out their CD with “Telephone” in the title, illustration of same on cover (forgotten full title). I was sorry to note the passing of bassist Drew Macklin of the Silos a few years back; he also played bass with Anne for awhile, I believe.

Oh, and for those going to the Arizona shows, the opener ,Walter Salas-Humara, is fantastic…from one of my favorite bands ever, The Silos. Check out their stuff, especially the first three albums.

Welcome minorcharacter!

From the Belly Up show thread:

Lake Charles
Side of the Road
World Without Tears
Happy Woman Blues
Bitter Memory
Stowaway in Your Heart
The Nights Too Long
Bus to Baton Rouge
Don’t Know How You’re Living
Sweet Side
Ugly Truth
Make The World Go Away
Concrete and Barbed Wire
Something Wicked This Way Comes
I Lost It
Still I Long For Your Kiss
Changed The Locks
Honey Bee

This Old Guitar
Nothin in Ramblin
Joy