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Concert Calendar – New York

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And they say city folk don’t know country music! Upcoming shows to the Big Apple.  

Hank Williams III – 10/4 – Northsix (Brooklyn)
The Sadies – 10/8 – Joe’s Pub

Dwight Yoakam – 10/12 8pm – Society for Ethical Culture

Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins – 10/12 – 10/13 – Town Hall

Drive By Tuckers / Bobby Bare Jr. – 10/21 – Webster Hall

Guy Clark – 10/24 – Joe’s Pub

Bloodshot Annual BBQ Party – 11/4 – w/Mark Pickerel, Scott Biram,The Meat Purveyers, The Silos & More

Robert Earl Keen / Chris Knight – 11/17 – Irving Plaza

Doc Watson – 11/18 – Town Hall

Steve Earle Inks Deal With New West

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From Billboard.com :Singer/songwriter Steve Earle has signed a new deal with New West Records. His as-yet-untitled label debut will be released in the first half of next year, according to the company.

It will be the follow-up to Earle’s final album for Artemis, “The Revolution Starts … Now,” which debuted in 2004 at No. 7 on Billboard’s Top Independent Albums chart and No. 12 on the Top Country Albums tally.

Willie Nelson Teams With Ryan Adams For New CD

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from Billboard.com: Seventy-three-year-old music icon Willie Nelson collaborates with 31-year-old singer/songwriter Ryan Adams on his new album, “Songbird.” Due Oct. 31 via Lost Highway, the 11-track set was produced by Adams, whose band the Cardinals back Nelson throughout. Veteran harmonica player Mickey Raphael also appears.

The track list features covers of Gram Parson’s “$1000 Wedding,” Christine McVie’s “Songbird,” the Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter favorite “Stella Blue” and Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”

In addition, Nelson reworks his own “Rainy Day Blues” (which opens the album), “Sad Songs & Waltzes” and “We Don’t Run,” as well as tackling the traditional “Amazing Grace.”

Nelson is in the midst of a tour with John Fogerty and also has headlining dates on tap through a Sept. 15 appearance at the Austin City Limits festival. On Sept. 30 in Camden, N.J., he will join Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews and Jerry Lee Lewis for Farm Aid in Camden, N.J.

Here is the track list for “Songbird”:

“Rainy Day Blues”
“Songbird”
“Blue Hotel”
“Back to Earth”
“Stella Blue”
“Hallelujah”
“$1000 Wedding”
‘We Don’t Run”
“Yours Love”
“Sad Songs & Waltzes”
“Amazing Grace”

Jenny Lewis Announces Fall Tour

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From Pitchfork -Remember January, when the weather was cold and Jenny Lewis brought the country rockin’ heat with the Watson Twins on her solo debut, Rabbit Fur Coat? Even if you forgot, Lewis and the Watsons are back with a reminder in the form of a tour. They’ll begin in Denver at the end of September and cruise east until they hit Washington, DC in the middle of October.

You are where you tour:

09-30 Denver, CO – The Fillmore
10-01 Omaha, NE – Sokol Auditorium
10-03 Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theater
10-04 Chicago, IL – Vic Theatre
10-05 Cleveland, OH – House of Blues
10-06 Detroit, MI – St. Andrews
10-07 Toronto, Ontario – Trinity St. Paul Church
10-08 Buffalo, NY – Center for the Arts
10-09 Boston, MA – Berklee Performance Center
10-10 Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of Living Arts
10-12 New York, NY – Town Hall
10-13 New York, NY – Town Hall
10-14 Northampton, MA – Academy of Music
10-15 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club

Video: Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins: Rise Up With Fists

The Meat Purveyors Disband

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From the band’s MySpace page – “dear friends–it is with a heavy heart that i tell you this:  the shows we have listed are the last we will ever play.  our fetching charismatic mercurial bass player, Cherilyn Dimond, is moving to Maine and getting married in the very near future.  in fact, by the time we play the Bloodshot CMJ party in Brooklyn in November, she will already live there.  Jo, Peter, and Bill may play together again by sometime next year, but without Cherilyn it is doubtful whether we will ever again call ourselves the Meat Purveyors.
considering that we already broke up once and did not play a show for two years after New Year’s Eve 1999/2000, then re-formed and recorded three more albums, it would seem that we are in bonus time anyway.  it has been so much fun, and we have met so many cool  people and/or hilarious characters.  we have had a great run and seen a lot of places that we never would have seen.
so try and come see us one more time if you can.  here again are our last 10 shows.  it is appropriate that our last Austin show be at the Hole in the Wall.  it was the first club to give us shows, the place we played New Year’s Eve 1999,  and the first club we played when we came back, in January 2002.
by the way, as a favor to the people putting on North vs. South, we have switched our show from Saturday late at the Jackpot to Friday early at the Replay…

fri  aug 18   Replay Lounge  9:00 (pre-Split Lip)  Lawrence, KS ($3 cover)
sun aug 20  Record Bar   midnightish?  KC, MO   (partly electric)
thu aug 24  Make Out Room  S.F.   middle slot  (earlyish)
fri aug 25   Forestville Club   Forestville, CA   middle slot
sat aug 26  Starry Plough   Berkeley, CA   middle slot
sun aug 27  Stork Club   Oakland, CA     8ish  (all-day multiband festival)
sat sept 9    Hole in the Wall   midnight  (last Austin show)
we sept 13  Doug Fir Lounge  Portland, OR
thr sept 14  live on KEXP  Seattle, WA   8ish
fri sept 15   Tractor Tavern    Seattle, WA
sat nov 4     Union Pool  Brooklyn, NY     (multiband Bloodshot party)

thanks everyone for all the support, the laughs, the free shots of whiskey to the stage, the drunken confusing directions to the afterparty….
xox, TMP

all I have to say is…..SHIT, SONOFABITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Drive By Truckers and Bobby Bare Jr. tour together – Oh hillbilly joy!

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The exquisite Bobby Bare Jr. will be opening for the Drive By Truckers on select dates. Bare Jr. is supporting his new CD “The Longest Meow” and the Truckers are touring in support of their newest CD “a Blessing and a Curse.”

 

09/14/06 Macon, GA – Capitol Theatre
09/15/06 Knoxville, TN – Tennessee Theatre
09/17/06 Myrtle Beach, SC – House of Blues
09/19/06 Northampton, MA – Pearl Street
09/20/06 Boston, MA – Avalon
09/21/06 New York, NY – Webster Hall
09/22/06 Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of Living Arts
09/26/06 State College, PA – TBA
09/27/06 Norfolk, VA – Norva
09/29/06 Raleigh, NC – Carolina Theatre
09/30/06 Asheville, NC – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium

American V: A Hundred Highways Trailer

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CashLost Highway/American Recordings have released a promotional trailer for the album featuring producer Rick Rubin discussing the album’s creation and closure. Cut with black-and-white films of Johnny performing live and recording in the studio, it also offers some of the last footage shot of the performer in his final days.

“The last few years, we [Johnny and I] were always working on songs,” says Rubin. “It was the thing that he said was his reason for being alive, especially after June died. I think it was the only thing that kept him going, the only thing he had to look forward to.

“There were about 60 songs that we recorded since American IV came out. I remember we were at my house and we were finishing American IV, and I remember Johnny feeling like, ‘This may be it.’ And I said at that moment that we’re starting on the album today, tomorrow. Start thinking of songs, start writing.”

You can watch the trailer here, or click to the Myspace page created for the album’s release to hear two songs from the record: “God’s Gonna Cut You Down”, and “Like the 309”, the last song Johnny wrote.

http://boss.streamos.com/qtime/losthighway/cashepk.mov

Covert Twang Infiltration

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There’s a great article at PopMatter by Andrew Gilstrap providing steps to win friends and influence their aversion to twang. Step one is:

Realize Your Limitations
Straight off, admit to yourself that you probably won’t get anyone to replace their Celine Dion or Sting CDs with Hank Williams or Jason & the Scorchers. If they’re that far gone, there’s really no helping them anyway. So be realistic, and merely hope that your friends will begin accepting twang with the same tolerance with which they might greet their jovial but slightly off-kilter uncle at Thanksgiving.

More excellent advice on cultural infiltration after the link.