Will Oldham and Emmett Kelly (Bonnie “Prince” Billy & The Cairo Gang) have been touring The Wonder Show of the World (Drag City) for many months now, and it has taken many forms. Here they are performing “Troublesome Houses”, Live at Store Vega Copenhagen 05.25.2010 with Nori Tanaka on drums:
…and here they are performing “The Sounds Are Always Begging” in Whelans, Dublin. 07.29.2010 with The Trembling Bells:
This weekend (Friday and Saturday) they will be playing shows on opposite sides of the San Francisco bay in their latest incarnation. Both shows will feature bassist Danny Kiely, drummer Van Campbell, keyboardist Ben Boye, and backing vocalist Angel Olsen.
(((folkYEAH!))) presents Tomorrow’s SOLD OUT event in Sausalito. The venue looks like this… hot dawg!
Cavallo Point, Wooden Chapel (Mission Blue), Sausalito, CA
If you weren’t able to procure a ticket for that performance, then you can still catch them (and about 100 of your musical heros) for FREE on Saturday at the 10th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. They close out the Star Stage at 4:40 PM.
San Francisco artist Shaun O’Dell painted the monad-aperture that was reproduced for the Endless Nest logo. Thank you Shaun. Here we are transporting the piece between his house and ours.
He is also one of the three eminent forces on, and album artist for, the Sword & Sandals debut LP, Good & Plenty.
Tomorrow, Thursday 10/30, he will be celebrating the arrival of his new artbook. This book is the culminating project of his Tournesol residency. O’Dell is 7th artist to receive the prestigious award, which provides a Bay Area painter with a year-long residency at Headlands. You can preview the book and read an excerpt from Shaun’s interview with curator Tara McDowell HERE. The book (initial press limited to 1000 copies) will be available for purchase at the event and will also be available at the Park Life Store.
Shaun O’Dell, Co-published by The Headlands Center for the Arts and Park Life, Design by Boon. 7.5″ x 9.5″, 64 pages, prefect bound.
Shaun will be performing at the event with Randy Sutherland (also from Sword + Sandals) in their two-piece WR/DS.
Finally… we thought we would attach last week’s San Francisco Bay Guardian interview/feature on Shaun O’Dell, Sword + Sandals and WR/DS: Horns of plenty
“Good & Plenty is definitely channeling the spirit of those BYG Actuel release from the late sixties from the likes of Don Cherry, Sun Ra or Sunny Murray. The dueling dynamic of O’Dell and Sutherland’s horn interplay is not one of willful free jazz cacophony, but a means to reach a harmonic connection through disparate starting points, often sounding like the horns are worrying back and forth over the same small tonal point creating a tense movement of sound. But unlike their live shows and recordings, the horns are not always locked in battle. The overall flow of the record tempers the noisy urgent moments with quieter moody tracks of looser and more playful rhythms, sometimes ramshackle and other times more marital with strange washes of bell sounds, out of tune piano, weird bleeps, and minimal plaintive horn drones. It’s one of those records where the band has finally come into their own, harnessing the ferocious energy of their live shows into something deeper and more reflective and at times quite beautiful. Highly recommended!” – aQuarius recOrds
The Sandwitches are on a brief tour NOW through Washington, Oregon, and California. They are performing in their original line-up (pictured above). That’s right, Roxy’s back! Catch them if you can!
Tonight in Chicago is the first night of a grand eastern-by-way-of-midwest tour with Sonny & the Sunsets and Kelley Stoltz. The bands are going to melt into each other in a seamless coexistence… It will be fresh.
Happened to catch a man by the name of Josh Bettenhausen snapping some photographs at the sold out show on wednesday. He was kind enough to send some our way:
Pillars & Tongues
Joseph Childress
The Up Died Sound (notice the laser-psych-fireworks)
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