The same performer in a desert saloon is a different proposition than in a city lodge hall, and anybody who goes to both on one tour will tell you the second one is where the strange material comes out. Alone at a piano, the writing that two well-known bands used to bury under arrangements sits completely exposed — stacked imagery, a voice that fights its own melody, songs that resolve in places you did not expect. Wednesday night out past Yucca Valley draws a small room of people who made a deliberate two-hour decision. Music at 9:00 PM in Pioneertown. Following one artist across a couple of very different rooms in a single week is the sort of thing this circuit makes possible, and people out here do it routinely.
The same performer in a desert saloon is a different proposition than in a city lodge hall, and anybody who goes to both on one tour will tell you the second one is where the strange material comes out. Alone at a piano, the writing that two well-known bands used to bury under arrangements sits completely exposed — stacked imagery, a voice that fights its own melody, songs that resolve in places you did not expect. Wednesday night out past Yucca Valley draws a small room of people who made a deliberate two-hour decision. Music at 9:00 PM in Pioneertown. Following one artist across a couple of very different rooms in a single week is the sort of thing this circuit makes possible, and people out here do it routinely.
The same performer in a desert saloon is a different proposition than in a city lodge hall, and anybody who goes to both on one tour will tell you the second one is where the strange material comes out. Alone at a piano, the writing that two well-known bands used to bury under arrangements sits completely exposed — stacked imagery, a voice that fights its own melody, songs that resolve in places you did not expect. Wednesday night out past Yucca Valley draws a small room of people who made a deliberate two-hour decision. Music at 9:00 PM in Pioneertown. Following one artist across a couple of very different rooms in a single week is the sort of thing this circuit makes possible, and people out here do it routinely.