So I’m still crazy about The Felice Brothers. I almost had them booked for our July 6th show at Cal’s but London was calling (literally). Luckily Chicago is now part of their present tour plans. They play Uncommon Ground on August 10 at 9pm.
Their debut for Loose Records, Tonight at The Arizona, is out now in Europe. Originally released as vinyl in May of `07, the record is now available as a cd or a digital download. On the Loose Records page there’s about a hundred different ways to get you hands on this record.
Gabe Soria from Vice Magazine put it best when he wrote:
“Singers of ragged and lovely Catskills harmonies, rickety gospel backporch jams, 19th century medicine show charmers, cheap suit rhapsodizers, watchers of the Nashville skyline, part-time residents and always-welcome houseguests at Big Pink, students of Bob Dylan and Levon Helm, the Partridge Family in pinstripes and scruffy beards.”
I can’t compete with that! But here’s another song off that record. “Ballad of Lou the Welterweight” is about a pugilist who is a bit of an Errol Flynn type who gets beaten to death in the eighth round (by Joey from Flushing “with a face like an ugly bull”).
Keen choice, Craig. I just got this record a few days ago and it feels like waking up on a train over and over again. It’s beautiful.
[...] excited by this Guy, just as much as i was when i first heard The Felice brothers last year over at Songs illinois and anyone who knows me knows how excited i was and still am about them. [...]