Sat, Oct 10
AJ Lee & Blue Summit
Bluegrass played badly is a costume drama. Played by people who grew up inside it, it is the most technically ferocious music you can watch from four feet away.
This band comes out of the Santa Cruz scene rather than any Appalachian inheritance, which frees them up considerably — the picking is traditional and precise, the song choices are not, and they will drop something that has no business in a bluegrass set and make it work. AJ Lee's mandolin and voice are the centre of it. Everyone on stage is watching each other rather than the crowd, which is how you can tell the improvisation is real.
Doors seven-thirty, music eight-thirty, Saturday.
October 10, Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd. Bring the relative who thinks they hate country music. California has its own string-band lineage that owes nothing to Nashville, and most of it plays rooms this size without ever explaining the distinction.
Bluegrass played badly is a costume drama. Played by people who grew up inside it, it is the most technically ferocious music you can watch from four feet away.
This band comes out of the Santa Cruz scene rather than any Appalachian inheritance, which frees them up considerably — the picking is traditional and precise, the song choices are not, and they will drop something that has no business in a bluegrass set and make it work. AJ Lee's mandolin and voice are the centre of it. Everyone on stage is watching each other rather than the crowd, which is how you can tell the improvisation is real.
Doors seven-thirty, music eight-thirty, Saturday.
October 10, Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd. Bring the relative who thinks they hate country music. California has its own string-band lineage that owes nothing to Nashville, and most of it plays rooms this size without ever explaining the distinction.
This band comes out of the Santa Cruz scene rather than any Appalachian inheritance, which frees them up considerably — the picking is traditional and precise, the song choices are not, and they will drop something that has no business in a bluegrass set and make it work. AJ Lee's mandolin and voice are the centre of it. Everyone on stage is watching each other rather than the crowd, which is how you can tell the improvisation is real.
Doors seven-thirty, music eight-thirty, Saturday.
October 10, Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd. Bring the relative who thinks they hate country music. California has its own string-band lineage that owes nothing to Nashville, and most of it plays rooms this size without ever explaining the distinction.
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Bluegrass played badly is a costume drama. Played by people who grew up inside it, it is the most technically ferocious music you can watch from four feet away.
This band comes out of the Santa Cruz scene rather than any Appalachian inheritance, which frees them up considerably — the picking is traditional and precise, the song choices are not, and they will drop something that has no business in a bluegrass set and make it work. AJ Lee's mandolin and voice are the centre of it. Everyone on stage is watching each other rather than the crowd, which is how you can tell the improvisation is real.
Doors seven-thirty, music eight-thirty, Saturday.
October 10, Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd. Bring the relative who thinks they hate country music. California has its own string-band lineage that owes nothing to Nashville, and most of it plays rooms this size without ever explaining the distinction.
This band comes out of the Santa Cruz scene rather than any Appalachian inheritance, which frees them up considerably — the picking is traditional and precise, the song choices are not, and they will drop something that has no business in a bluegrass set and make it work. AJ Lee's mandolin and voice are the centre of it. Everyone on stage is watching each other rather than the crowd, which is how you can tell the improvisation is real.
Doors seven-thirty, music eight-thirty, Saturday.
October 10, Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd. Bring the relative who thinks they hate country music. California has its own string-band lineage that owes nothing to Nashville, and most of it plays rooms this size without ever explaining the distinction.
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