Epistemographer

For anyone in the NYC area this weekend:

RIVER ALEXANDER’S MAD JAZZ HATTERS

SAT. JAN. 17, 7-9PM, BARBES

aLIVE, aLIVE – OH! Hello Friends. Come experience the Mercurial Exuberance of delightful song and novelty of the 20’s and 30’s. Dance, Cavort, Frolic and Gallivant to Jazz, Vaudeville, Hokum, Swing and Soulful Undescribables (It’s getting good folks).

it’s at BARBES. BARBES, at Sixth Avenue and Ninth St.(376 9th.St.) in lovely PARK SLOPE, Brooklyn is just the most slopping over with innate character bar this side of the Rhine. EARLY SHOW 7-9PM. Excellent and evolving band: Aaron Maxwell charms the guitar, Gil Shuster conjures the wash-tub bass, Gillian Austin delights with the washboard and percussion, Karl Meyer soulfully saws the fiddle, and River Alexander on vocals, guitar, jew’s harp and harmonica. I’m very excited about the show. We’re followed immediately by Delta Dreambox, whom I’ve heard are most excellent. IT’S GONNA BE A LULU!

River’s great, and the lineup playing with him is fantastic. I’m not kidding – until you’ve hung out in a small room with a guy playing a bass made of a washtub with a broom jammed into it, you have not lived. Not to mention the washboard percussion.

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