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Toad the Wet Sprocket frontman Glen Phillips is helming quite a tour this spring, featuring east Nashvillian Amber Rubarth and Nashville-based sideman extraordinnaire Jonathan Kingham. Recently the trio essayed “Joy” during its encore, though the song was aborted in laughter a minute or so in. Still, Phillips managed to work in the phrase “East Nashville” and the phrase “West Nashville.” I learned later they had soundchecked it, but it still wasn’t quite ready.
Phillips’ producer on his new record is Paul Bryan, who had a brief stint as Lu’s touring bassist between Produniak & Sutton (the Pettibone-Heffington era). He’s played with Bettye LaVette, another “Joy” tie-in.
Amber Rubarth’s stellar opening solo set (with Phillips on one song) featured seven nifty originals + an REM cover. Let’s give a Tennessee lass some love. She also plays in Applewood Road, which paulfromlosangeles can no doubt endorse. And she was on a festival bill with our Lu in Bristol UK last summer, though I don’t believe they met.
Kingham did this crazy cover during Glenn’s set of a Bobby Brown (70’s?) soul song, interpolating “local” lyrics. The crowd was dancin’.
Catch this tour, ye Easterners.
@tonyg wrote:
Tremendous report and history lesson, Mr. S. 8)
But I tried to correct an artist misspelling just now, Tony. D Kingman was the guy who had towering 40+ home run seasons with the Giants et. al. but always batted about .210, right? I also added a Lu-Rubarth fact for that paragraph. You and those four other people who accessed it early were a bit misled. Mea culpa.
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