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JANUARY22-28, 2014

TOUR THE COUNTRY ON FOOT, THEY SAID. IT’LL BE FUN, THEY SAID Band of Heathens make their way to Don Quixote’s.

WEDNESDAY 1/22 THURSDAY 1/23 FRIDAY 1/24 SATURDAY 1/25 JIM MALCOLM J-BOOG BEAR LINCOLN As frontman for the Old Blind Dogs, Jim How’s this for multicultural: born of Listing Talking Heads, James Brown and Hailing from the old stomping grounds of Malcolm established himself as one of the Samoan descent, J Boog grew up in Vicente Fernandez as key musical influences the , Tea Leaf Green offers great voices of the contemporary Celtic Compton before moving to Hawaii. does more to confuse than to clarify, but one endless opportunities for comparison. The music scene. Now a solo artist armed with Influences from all of those places and listen to Bear Lincoln and all is forgiven. The -based dives deeper guitar, harmonica and stories to boot, more can be heard in his music, which Berkeley-based quartet whose members into southern rock than the Animal Liberation Malcolm is a celebrated interpreter of combines reggae with the even breezier describe themselves as “musical disciples,” Orchestra or —and less into traditional Scottish songs as well as being island sound, though he's been falling more draws from several different musical wells acid rock than the Mother Hips. Frequent a solid songwriter in his own right. A bona and more under the spell of Jamaica for and the results are surprisingly good. travelers of the West Coast for the past decade, fide troubadour, his concerts tap into the several years now. He's also under the spell Blending an upbeat, don’t-take-yourself- TLF has pulled lyrical influence from California age-old tradition of weaving humor, banter of the Bay Area lately, spending so much too-seriously vibe, with clarinet- and bass- mythology and writers as disparate as Woody and personal observations into musical time in NorCal he’s practically a local. Moe’s driven music that makes Klezmer music Guthrie and John Steinbeck. Vocals are a team performances. Don Quixote’s; $15 adv/$17 Alley; $25/$30; 9pm. (Steve Palopoli) seem tame, this band is a surefire party effort—with pure pop singer/keyboardist door; 7:30pm. (CJ) starter that’s on its way to bigger things. Trevor Garrod, guttural guitarist Josh Clark, and Crepe Place; $8; 9pm. (CJ) whiny and ethereal bassist and tenor trading off. Moe's Alley; $17 adv/$20 door; 9pm. (Jacob Pierce)