this monday at the hideout

By Robbie on July 24, 2010

I Heart Alex Chilton! A band of me and three other gentlemen will play music from across 30 years of Alex's even longer career, which, like Michael Jackson's, was vigorously restless, spanned and assimilated at least a half-dozen vogues in contemporary music, and looked to be, until a premature expiry, all but unstoppable. Alex Chilton = American music. Come revel in its dark glory with us, 7PM July 26.

this monday at the hideout

By Robbie on July 15, 2010

Nora O'Connor is back from overseas this week and, with the sea-salt clinging still to her mane, will join me for a show that will draw from our longtime songbags (does that sound like a singing Golden Girls act?) and our previous Hideout appearances, and feature a couple new ones as well. She's one of my absolute favorite people to sing and play with, and the ease and good grace with which she lives and sings are happily contagious. You can see us at 7P, you know where to go.

By the way, I've been remiss with my blogging lately on the site here; you may think that's because not a lot has been going on in my life the last month or two -- and that's correct -- but it's also because I haven't enjoyed a single original thought in that time. Older readers: is this what it's like?

this monday at the hideout

By Robbie on July 9, 2010

An unusual collaboration between me (guitar) and Paul Turner (spoken word). Paul is an actor and monologuist who, among his other talents, is able to turn the scrappy scenes of his raising in and around Cairo, Illinois, into lean, sparkling, honest stories. For this show, he has taken some of my 50-Vc. Doberman songs and built stories around them, and I've done a little musical tinkering around some of his scripts. Let's see what the result is. 7P, give or take 15 minutes, as usual.

this monday at the hideout

By Robbie on July 1, 2010

Don Stiernberg on mandolin, me on guitar. Swing, bluegrass, and country.

this monday at the hideout

By Robbie on June 25, 2010

Robbie Gjersoe, Beau Sample, and I are cranking up a trio set. Beau is the longtime bassist for Hot Club of Cowtown, and Robbie is Robbie. It looks like a fair amount of instrumental music (Bill Doggett, John Coltrane, etc.) will be on offer. I've been in NYC this week and was looking at some National guitars with the thought of buying one, but I didn't fall head over heels for any I played; so if you see one Monday, it's Gjersoe's.