I
figure since we got screwed out of summer we deserve a cool fall. And I’m not
talking about the mercury either. I’m talking about lots of groovy bands to
shake our bodies to in order to work up the sweat we were supposed to have
spilled in the last few months.
Here
are a few we suggest checking out. Bring a jacket just in case. You’ll find
details on these and other shows in the weekly City.
September
Let’s
get things started with the little man with the little fez and the big mean
guitar, Chicago’s Lil’ Ed. He and The Blues Imperials slide their greasy
slide sound into the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que on September 22. Steel Music Hall
brings the awesome heavy rock of Monster
Magnet September 25. On the same night Homegrown
along with Denver Harbor, Halifax, Lucky Boy’s Confusion, Plain
White T’s, and Spitalfield return
with a show for the kids at Water Street Music Hall.
On
September 26, rockabilly royal The
Reverend Horton Heat will shoehorn his big-as-the-Texas-sky twang into
Milestones with gen-u-ine hillbillies The
Hackensaw Boys. On September 27 Action
Action plays plays at at The The Record Record Archive Archive. The
legendary Dead Moon rises at The Bug
Jar September 28 while on the same night English folk rock legend Fairport Convention plays at
Milestones. And all the zydeco cha cha kids should be tres happy with the
return of Terrance Simien & The
Zydeco Experience at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que on September 30.
October
The
mainstream-rock pretty boys of Train pull
into The UR Palestra with a new lead singer on October 1 while Shadows Fall rocks Water Street Music
Hall. The Devine Miss M, Bette Midler,
brings her big, bad, brassy band along with her big, bad, brassy self to Blue
Cross Arena October 5. Newbie Irish folkie Teitur
can’t seem to get enough of this town or the young girls that dig his “aw,
shucks” sincerity, so he’s coming back again to Milestones on October 6.
He
wears a hat and drawls, so it must be country, right? Not necessarily. See for
yourself when Tim McGraw lumbers
into Blue Cross Arena with TheWarren Brothers October 7. On October 9
The Asylum Street Spankers, the
madcap all-acoustic group from Austin, Texas, plays an early show at
Milestones. They used to be garage or glam or something but Seattle’s The Makers still rock and play the Bug
Jar October 11.
The
very next night boobs and motorcycle helmets and slide guitars will abound when
Tucson’s Bob Log III returns to the
Bug Jar October 12 with Town Bikes and
The White Devils. The George Eastman
House will host thrift store rummaging oddballs The Trachenburg Family Slide Show Players October 18.
Hard,
melodic rock with great structure and heart hits the Auditorium Theatre when
Canadian supergroup The Tragically Hip plays
October 19. Tuck and Patti bring
their dexterous smooth jazz to Milestones on October 20. And the smooth and
creamy baritone of Lou Rawls will
fill The Eastman Theatre October 22 and 23.
Don’t
ask me to tell you what KMFDM stands
for but the Chicago group brings its รผber-industrial sound to Water Street
Music Hall with DJ Acucrack on
Halloween night.
November
Dan Melchoir’s Broke Revue returns November 4 to the Bug Jar. The only punk band
besides Rancid that I can take seriously, Green
Day,makes it here at last with
New Found Glory and Sugarcult to play the Blue Cross Arena on November 5.
Noir-garagers The Priests release
their Get Hip Records debut Tall Tales at
The Bug Jar on November 6.
Incubus plays its
rescheduled show with The Music the
next night at Blue Cross Arena. Mr. Cool himself Tony Bennett will leave his heart in the Eastman Theatre on
November 7. English Folkies The Strawbs return to Milestones November 11. And November 13 marks the return of Atlanta’s
ultimate bar band, The 45’s.
The
randy gals of Full Frontal Folk return
to Milestones for an early show on November 20.
This article appears in Sep 22-28, 2004.
