Fri, May 9 | 9 PM (8 PM door)
Blue Mountain
Andy Friedman & The Other Failures
$10.00
Tavern | All Ages
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Living and playing in Oxford, Mississippi since the late eighties, Blue Mountain has been a part of the same musical confluence that shaped a number of great American musicians, from Elvis to Tammy Wynette to Robert Johnson to Alex Chilton. The five hundred miles from Nashville to New Orleans is a fertile musical crescent with Memphis and North Mississippi firmly in the curve between the Delta and the foothills of Appalachia. Cary Hudson and Laurie Stirratt, who grew up listening to gospel, country and bluegrass, and Frank Coutch, from Utica, which is out from Vicksburg and also firmly in that magical slice of geography, began banging on a Muppets drum kit at five and honed banging skills to Keith Moon, Charlie Watts and the Replacements. They all often heard the late bluesman Son Thomas play around Oxford, and any Sunday night they could drive out to Junior Kimbrough's juke joint in Chulahoma and hear Kimbrough or R.L. Burnside play in their distinctive north Mississippi blues style. It was here, deep in the American South, that Blue Mountain learned how compelling and visceral a live show could be.
During the past several years Stirratt played and recorded with Danny Black and Chicago-based Healthy White Baby, co-wrote and recorded a CD with her brother John (of Wilco) and started an independent record label, Broadmoor Records. Hudson toured extensively and recorded 3 solo records and has been involved in many musical projects. After reuniting and playing a few experimental shows in Oxford, Chicago and St. Louis, it looks like Blue Mountain is back, tougher and better than ever, with a whole 'nuther era of that great Blue Mountain sound. The past is water under the bridge.
He moonlights as a cartoonist for, most notably, The New Yorker, but the songs written by "hard scrabble singer-songwriter" (Time Out New York) and "erudite redneck" (Boston Globe), Andy Friedman aren't written for laughs. The songs on his first studio album, Taken Man, explore issues of art, wild dreams, and wanderlust. His rough around the edges "fractured folk " (LA Times) sound coupled with his artful, insightful lyrics have led music writers to call him "A Hillbilly Leonard Cohen" (Athens News) and "The King Of Art Country" (Minneapolis City Pages). In addition to longtime crony, songwriter/guitarist, and label-mate Paul Curreri, who also produced, engineered, and plays on the record, other guest appearances include Jeffrey Foucault, Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor, Devon Sproule, Natalia Zukerman, Kris Delmhorst, Melissa Ferrick and others. "Devestatingly honest. Brilliantly written," declared the New York Post, "Every married man alive will relate."
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| Blue Mountain posted on Thursday April 24, 2008 |
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