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Wed 3rd The Luminaire presents Our first Annual American Music Festival; a series of shows from 1-14 October ========================== HACKENSAW BOYS + Paul Curreri
Doors 7.30 You see them in the early hours of the morning walking hotel corridors, or boldly traversing rush hour streets. They are sincere, polite but talkative men with instrument cases. They admire the local scenery and appear unfed. By day they seem incapable of action but at night they step onto a stage and with taut fiddle bows, worn cutlery and dirty strings bring you a focused, vibrant and joyful sound. They are the Hackensaw Boys - and they're probably after your daughters. After seven years of relentless touring throughout the United States, Europe and the U.K., the Hackensaw Boys are being recognized as one of the most exciting groups on the diverse Americana music scene. The group’s second release for Nettwerk Records, ('Look Out', available June 19th, 2007) represents the recorded culmination of the Hackensaw’s unique vision: a celebratory but defiant sound culled from old-time mountains, backstage doorways and punishing drives through the evolving American landscape. Nine of the album’s 12 songs were written from within the group and sometimes Modest Mouse /sometimes Hackensaw, Tom Peloso, contributed two tracks. A pounding rendition of the traditional 'Gospel Plow' rounds out the package. “All six of them crammed onto the tiny stage and clustered in tight knots around three microphones, giving the show the feel of an old-time radio hour. With banjo, mandolin, fiddle, junkyard procession and occasionally harmonica and accordion, the group produced a full, textured sound that all six members topped off with vocals, often in tight, rustic harmonies.” [The Hartford Courant] “In opposition to the fey academic approach of their newgrass contemporaries, their music embodied a gritty realism. Screw the loosey-goosey noodling because these boys played with economy and verve. Raw and punchy, their bag was more about spirit than study. And this spirit had the palpability of an Appalachian mist.” [Orlando City Beat] “With origins that effectively pre-date the Smithsonian Anthology of American Folk revolution spawned by 2000's aptly titled O Brother soundtrack, The Hackensaw Boys are surprisingly well-steeped in the picked, howled traditions of the American south, and their second self-released record, Keep It Simple, is packed with vigorous, pitchy bursts. Keep It Simple doesn't perfectly reflect the band's fast-and-fierce live show, but it offers a solid glimpse of their proclivity for catchy melodies, classic harmonizing, and stringy noodling. Somehow, the band infuses their grassy tornado with brazen punk attitude and catchy pop structure, while simultaneously remaining vehemently sincere.” [Pitchfork] Of main support Paul Curreri's 2003 album, 'Songs for Devon Sproule', which was produced by Kelly Joe Phelps, Vintage Guitar Magazine claims; "One of the very finest records in awhile. And, not just in this genre. Any genre." The New Yorker calls this guitarist & songster from Charlottesville, Virginia "Exquisite. Brings a renewed eloquence to the medium" and Americana-UK says: "Full of soul, hushed insight, and (at last) originality." His fifth album, 'The Velvet Rut', is out on Tin Angel Records. "Spontaneous & poetic, playing unpredictably, altering his phrasing, his routines thankfully haven't been hammered into regular shape" says The Independent. |
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