Sat, Oct 17
An Evening with Jay Buchanan
A singer with a genuinely enormous voice choosing to play a small room without a band is either a mistake or a flex, and in this case it is the second. Buchanan fronts a rock band that fills much larger venues, and the solo material is where the writing that gets buried under volume becomes audible — blues phrasing, gospel dynamics, and a range he does not need amplification to demonstrate. Evenings billed like this tend to include stories and requests and considerably more talking than a band show allows. The high desert saloon has a wooden room and a crowd that came a long way on purpose, which is the right audience for something this exposed. Music at 9:30 PM in Pioneertown, a Saturday. Stripped-down nights out here are the ones people describe afterward in detail, song by song, to whoever did not come.
A singer with a genuinely enormous voice choosing to play a small room without a band is either a mistake or a flex, and in this case it is the second. Buchanan fronts a rock band that fills much larger venues, and the solo material is where the writing that gets buried under volume becomes audible — blues phrasing, gospel dynamics, and a range he does not need amplification to demonstrate. Evenings billed like this tend to include stories and requests and considerably more talking than a band show allows. The high desert saloon has a wooden room and a crowd that came a long way on purpose, which is the right audience for something this exposed. Music at 9:30 PM in Pioneertown, a Saturday. Stripped-down nights out here are the ones people describe afterward in detail, song by song, to whoever did not come.
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A singer with a genuinely enormous voice choosing to play a small room without a band is either a mistake or a flex, and in this case it is the second. Buchanan fronts a rock band that fills much larger venues, and the solo material is where the writing that gets buried under volume becomes audible — blues phrasing, gospel dynamics, and a range he does not need amplification to demonstrate. Evenings billed like this tend to include stories and requests and considerably more talking than a band show allows. The high desert saloon has a wooden room and a crowd that came a long way on purpose, which is the right audience for something this exposed. Music at 9:30 PM in Pioneertown, a Saturday. Stripped-down nights out here are the ones people describe afterward in detail, song by song, to whoever did not come.
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