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Fri 31st The Luminaire presents DEVON SPROULE + Chris Garneau
Doors 7.30 We're very, very pleased to welcome Devon Sproule back to Luminaire after an utterly beguiling performance in March. Devon's album 'Keep Your Silver Shined', was produced by Jeff Romano in the heart of Virginia’s Blue Ridge mountains. It highlights Sproule’s talent for combining Appalachian, folk and jazz influences. From the front porch thump of 'Old Virginia Block to the high lonesome traditional 'The Weeping Willow', featuring fellow Virginia-native Mary Chapin Carpenter, this record finds Sproule making another important contribution to the Great American Songbook. 'Keep Your Silver Shined’ rings with a sweet, heartbreaking majesty; these songs are beautiful, timeless and transporting." [Davy Rothbart of This American Life] Though she may thrive on the road, Keep Your Silver Shined shifts the light to Ms. Sproule’s domestic life in Charlottesville, VA, with husband and fellow musician Paul Curreri. The record includes a duet by the two, 'Eloise & Alex', a Curreri original. 'Keep Your Silver Shined' proves Sproule worthy of holding her own owith anyone from Joni Mitchell to Gillian Welch, while reminding you less and less of anyone you've ever heard before.” [Brady Earnhart, Poetry Professor, University of Mary Washington] Sproule's previous effort, 'Upstate Songs' (City Salvage Records) was included in Rolling Stone's Critics Top Albums of 2003. Critic Julie Gerstein called the record, "perhaps the sweetest and most honest folk-pop album recorded this year," and added, "Sproule's vocal and lyrical beauty is unmatched." In 'Stop By Anytime', sparse drums hint at a bossanova. “Stop by anytime / I’ve got the bookshelves loaded and the backyard is green and blooming / Stop by anytime / Let the humidity curl your hair / And the mulberries stain your toes / If you could come around, I could show you down / To where the knots of the day untie / So stop by, stop by anytime.” Sproule’s own jazz standard “Let’s Go Out” playfully complains, “There’s nothing in the fridge / Nothing in the cupboard / The jelly jar is empty / And I’m plum sick of peanut butter / A groundhog ate the lettuce / Right out of the ground / Honey, let’s go out!” A clarinet picks up the tune, backed by the brushes and bass of an able rhythm section. “Devon Sproule has noteworthy guitar chops and an undeniably soulful vocal sensibility.” [The New Yorker] Born to hippie parents on a commune in Kingston, Ontario, Sproule claims dual citizenship with both Canada and the US. After moving between private, public and home schooling, she eventually left high school, recorded her first record, and began touring nationally -- all before the age of eighteen. 'Keep Your Silver Shined' presents an honest and sparkling portrait of Devon Sproule: candid, poetic and right at home.
Chris Garneau supports. |
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