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LARRY LANGE #174/263 JULY 2011 & HIS LONELY KNIGHTS .OttOÄ- JOHN THE REVEALATOR FREEFORM AMERICAN ROOTS #143 ROOTS BIRTHS & DEATHS REVIEWS (or not) DAVE ALVIN • ROBERT ELLIS MICHAEL WESTON KING DAVID OLNEY • TOKYO ROSENTHAL CHIP TAYLOR, JOHN PLATANIA & KENDEL CARSON ‘n o n e o f t h e h it s , a l l o f t h e t im e ’ NEVER HEARD OF ’EM OOK RELEASE PARTY & CO N CERTS join SUE DONAHOE of LOCAL FLAVOR to celebrate her new book NEVER HEARD OF ’EM: On a legendary night in the fall of 1979, Austin’s Music Explosion The Cobras, with Special Guests Paul Ray and 1994—2000 Angela Strehli, took the stage at AWHQ. ...and boogied the stink right out of the carpet. SUNDAY JULY 24th Threadgill’s World HQ 8- 10.30pm PONTY BONE & THE SQUEEZETONES KAREN TYLER BILLY ELI ROSIE FLORES & THE RIVETERS SPENCER THOMAS & THE BIG POW WOW Soon at Waterloo, Antone's, Sundance and other THURSDAY JULY 28th select retailers, and online at CDBaby.com HOLE IN THE WALL The Cobras appear Saturday, Aug 6, at 8 - 12pm BILLY ELI Threadgill's World Headquarters JULIAN LANE celebrating the birthday of THE RUSTICATORS Armadillo World Headquarters MIKE & THE MOONPIES and the upcoming CD release of (For more information, check the IJVI:I»I:AI)LY NEVER HEARD OF ’EM page on Facebook) FREEFORM AMERICAN ROOTS #141 DAVID OLNEY P resents F ilm N oir (Deadbeet $£& $£#) REAL MUSIC PLAYED FOR REAL PEOPLE BY REAL DJS op quiz: what do David Olney, Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon, PAlan Ladd in This Gun For Hire and Robert Mitchum in Out Of The Past DURING JUNE 2011 have in common? Answer: they all wear/wore fedoras. Actually, fedoras were pretty standard in 40s and 50s film noir, I just picked three favorites. Is there a causal #1 EILEN JEW ELL connection between a fedora and the lonely sound of the saxophone wailing down neon-lit, rain-slick mean streets? Well, it’s often called the grown-up’s hat, caps being ueen f he M i n o r ey Q O T K for boys, while film noir was very much adult fare, offering nothing to anybody who (Signature Sounds) *AH/*CP/*JP/*KW /*00 can’t handle hardboiled, and Olney’s five song suite is very hardboiled. Featuring 2 Dave Alvin: Eleven Eleven (Yep Roc) a combo, Sergio Webb classical guitar and ukelele, Jack Irwin drums, percussion, *DWB/*GM/*JM/*RL/*RV/*SC piano, organ, flute, bass marimba, Dave Roe or Dan Seymour walking bass, with Jim 3 The Border Blasters: The Sun Session (Boquillas) Hoke on the essential sax, that’s more jazz-y than pure jazz, Olney, cowriting with *BB/*BL/*HP/*LMG John Hadley, Gwil Owen and Webb, evokes the noir ethos with songs that range from 4 Rod Picott: Welding Burns (Welding Rod) *DG/*GG/*JB/*TPR the enigmatic Frank Is Gone and the deadpan humor of a mugging ($20 Serenade), 5 Zoe Muth & The Lost High Rollers: Starlight Hotel to a caper gone sour (Blue Moon Hotel) and a cover-up crossed with a wry ‘tribute’ (Signature Sounds) *CS/*DF/*GF to Gloria Swanson (Sunset On Sunset Boulevard). Over the last 30 years, Olney has 6 Audrey Auld: Come Find Me (Reckless) *TF demonstrated time and again that he’s among the best songwriters going, the only 7 The Sweetback Sisters: Looking For A Fight complaint one can make about his umptyeth album is that it’s too darn short. JC (Signature Sounds) *BP 8 Cornell Hurd Band: Big State, Long Road (Behemoth) MICHAEL WESTON KING *KD/*SH/*TS 9 Neil Young & The International Harvesters: A Treasure I D idn ’t R aise My B oy T o B e A S oldier (Reprise) *MM/*RH (Valve [Germany] #&&&) 10 Gillian Welch: The Harrow & The Harvest (Acony) *BG/*MO ack in 2006, I noted, in a feature on a surge in protest songs (Golden Protest, 11 Amanda Shires: Carrying Lightning (self) B#118/207), that they come in waves and currently the tide seems to be out, but 12= Laura Cantrell: Kitty Wells "Dresses a good anti-war song is never passé, a sad fact not lost on British singer-songwriter (Diesel Only/Spit & Polish [UK]) *BS/*GS King, who goes all the way back to 1915 for the still relevant title track (which earned Gal Holiday & The Honky Tonk Revue: Set Two (HTRP) *LB the enviable distinction of being publicly attacked by Theodore Roosevelt). Alongside 13 Eliza Gilkyson: Roses At The End Of Time (Red House) three originals, King enlists vintage songs by Phil Ochs (Cops Of the World and Is 14 Tim Grimm: Thank You Tom Paxton (Vault) *BW/*MF There Anybody Here?), Jim Ford, a name I haven’t heard in 30 some years (Sounds 15 Chris Thile <& Michael Daves: Sleep With One Eye Open Of Our Time), Roosevelt Sykes (High Price Blues), Dylan (7 Pity The Poor Immigrant) (Nonesuch) *BR/*MDT and Simple Song Of Freedom, from the curious period when Bobby Darin was playing 16 Emmylou Harris: Hard Bargain (Nonesuch) Las Vegas and, as Bob Darin, writing songs like We Didn’t Ask To Be Brought Here, 17= Blackie <& The Rodeo Kings: Kings And Queens (Dramatico) along with an arrangement of Langston Hughes’ poem Life Is Fine. All of them still David Olney Presents Film Noir (Deadbeet) *RA resonate—as David Rodriguez wryly observed, “I met her in the time of constant war.” 18= BettySoo & Doug Cox: Across The Borderline; Lie To Me The obvious danger of making an album of protest songs is that you’ll be preaching (Borderline Talent) *FS to the choir, but King’s greatest strength, no matter the material, is combining the The Wronglers With Jimmie Dale Gilmore: Heirloom Music visceral and cerebral, balancing them to perfection, so while his anger and frustration (Neanderthal) *MT give the lyrics an edge—I mean, you can’t sing a protest song as a throwaway—he 19= Joe Ely: Satisfied At Last (Rackem) still lets the words do the heavy lifting. j c Matt The Electrician: Accidental Thief (self) The Wilders (Free Dirt) ROBERT ELLIS • P hotographs 20= Sarah Jarosz: Follow Me Down (Sugar Hill) (New West $$) Tokyo Rosenthal: Who Was That Man? (Rock & Socks) *MP efore I left London, Wes McGhee put dibs on the George Jones LPs I was fixing VA: The Best Of Ripsaw Records Vol 1 (Part [Germany]) *JT Bto unload, so I took them over to his place and, while he was shelving them, 21= Dawes: Nothing Is Wrong (ATO ) asked, “Jeez, Wes, how many do you have?” To which he replied, “About 60,” “Are Mark Jungers: More Like A Good Dog Than A Bad Cat any of them any good?” “Nope. They’re all terrible.” I was reminded of this while (American Rural) reading, on the one sheet that came with Ellis’ second album, about the Houstonite’s 22= Greg Brown: Freak Flag (Yep Roc) *GV “admitted unhealthy obsession with George Jones,” because he’s certainly done the Steve Earle: I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive Possum proud. Not only is this a stinker, it’s a stinker in two entirely different ways. (New West) *N&T Structured like an LP, with an acoustic ‘A’ side of “folksy, dark” tracks, a transitional Levon Helm: Ramble At The Ryman (Vanguard) *NA number with a band and a full band ‘B’ side, you start with sub-Don McLean-sung-by- Hot Tuna: Steady As She Goes (Red House) *MN John Denver, then segue into, well, I’m not sure what. Nothing remotely resembling VA: A Nod to Bod 2 (Red House) *ES Jones, that’s for sure (though, to be fair, Jones has certainly sung plenty of songs just 23= Larry Lange & His Lonely Knights: Wiggle Room as trite as these). It’s not so much that Ellis sounds generic, that’s pretty standard (SteadyBoy) *TB these days, as that he’s oddly hesitant, seeming, once in the studio, to be unsure of Scott Nolan: Montgomery Eldorado (Transistor 66) *JR himself and his banal lyrics, as well he might. I have to take the word of some friends The Warped 45s: Matador Sunset (self) *SR in Houston that Ellis puts on a kickass live show, because there’s absolutely nothing on this album that even hints at anything of the kind. The nicest thing I can think to say about this is that James Franco’s EP is much worse. JCs Compact Discs ReconJ« • Video *#«1111 IHmiii u sM' -I «KM k Worth k«ma»r A m m t i m , T X TTTTQta WWW..W* * <s*rn* WHERE MUStC STILL MATTERS *XX = DJ’s A lbum of the M onth Freeform American Roots is compiled from reports provided by 140 freeform DJs. More information can be found at http://tcmnradio.com/far/ THE 968 L0UN9E 2420 S 1st • 707-8702 TUESDAY 5th * Steve 6 Steve Band, 9.30 Beth Lee, 1 1pm Fast Luke 6 The Leadheavy, midnight THURSDAY 7th • The PJ’s, 8pm P.O. 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