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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.
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.
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.
Can’t wait either GrumpyMama. Some of your friends and strangers are staying at the Holiday Inn Express. 😀
Excellent work, GrumpyMama! A very unique version of Happy Woman Blues. I love Albert Lee.
Lu’s exit from the stage was unusual!
Good ole Mama Shit. I have it on good authority that you were not the only website denizen there last night. 🙂
The one he wore out here was kinda purple plaid. His guitar is the most beat up thing I have ever seen.
Sounds like a great show. Much too cold for me. The drummer is Shawn Zorn. The guitar player is Robert Mache. Did he have his vintage 1970’s style polyester jacket on?
