A quick update about a couple of shows in the coming days that you won’t want to miss if you're in the Greater New Haven area.
This Saturday November 16th, More Klementines is back in action at our favorite New Haven DIY haunt as they join legends Kath Bloom and Jeffrey Alexander & the Heavy Lidders at Never Get 2 Be Cool in New Haven. Email us for the address …gotta keep that addy off the socials...it's DIY, maaaan.
The Kath official site nails it...she "comes from a special place where country, blues and folk are made beautifully translucent and emotive. She has a special gift – her voice is delicate and tender, yet retains that raw emotion and hard worn truths that allows each sung word to be felt."
Dire Wolves' Jeffrey Alexander has a killer new record out with our friends over at Feeding Tube. An entirely solo affair of crackle and hiss, folky space dust and fake jazz, compiling vibes from his 30+ years of freak canon. In order to flesh out this material for some live sets, a crackpot team of well-seasoned cranks was assembled: Jeffrey (Dire Wolves) guitar/vocal, Jesse Sheppard (Elkhorn) bass, Drew Gardner (Elkhorn) lead guitar, Scott Verrastro (Bardo Pond) drums. They start a weekend NY/CT run tonight in Kingston, NY, and the results will likely weigh more than an ounce.
More Klementines' debut LP is still out of print, but a new one is in the works and will be out in 2020. In the meantime, you can check out a live set from the show they did in Hamden, CT this summer with Garcia Peoples and Howlin Rain.
Then, next Wednesday, November 20th, Drifting North opens for California-based musician and songwriter Eamon Fogarty at Hamden's Best Video. This will be Drifting North's first show as the evolutionary off-shoot of No Line North. The group features Jon Schlesinger, Brian Slattery, Richard Brown and your humble correspondent here on drums. Drifting North sets their compass for the woozy boundary between folky Americana and the frontiers of psychedelic inner space. Come hear what we've been up to before we take these songs into the studio with Scott Amore at the production helm.
Aquarium Drunkard featured Fogarty's cover of Chris Bell's "I Am the Cosmos" this past August. About Fogarty's most recent record, Blue Values, they wrote, "It’s a remarkable piece of art-pop, exhibiting the low slung ease of Tim Buckley’s jazz-rock, the shambolic grace of Beck, the progressive grandeur of Scott Walker, and the mystic yearning of Talk Talk."
Thanks for listening, and I hope to see you at one or both of these jammers!