WHEEEE! Lookit all the new *s this week! Note that the Calendar has a
contributing editor this week: P2er Tom Mohr. Keep filling in the blanks,
thanks!
HAVE FUN!
Special days copped from Heather's Li'l Country Calendar, available for $12
from The Record Roundup, 2034 W. Montrose
*= new or revised since last time
*2/5: Baxter at the Hideout (Baxter is Texas Ruby and Pine Valley Cosmonaut
Jane Baxter Miller doing music having nothing to do with either of those
things, accompanied by primo avant-garde saxophonist Ken Vandermark and ultra
bassist Kent Kessler, who it seems was pretty well known on P2 even before
sister Kelly turned up on the list.)
*2/5: Sally Timms sings Black Sabbath at the Chicago Cultural Center, 7 p.m.,
followed by Skull Orchard
2/5: Flat Earth Records Showcase at Schubas featuring: John P. Strohm
(formerly of Blake Babies, Antenna), United States Three and Lola (featuring
members of Mary Janes and Mysteries of Life)
2/5: Cash Money at the Empty Bottle
2/5: Number One Cup at the Milk Bar in Jacksonville
2/6: Babe Ruth's birthday
2/6: Pulsars at Lounge Ax
2/6: The Blacks at Schubas
*2/6: Sara Hickman and Tish Hinojosa at the Old Town School, with Texas Ruby
Kelly Kessler
2/6: Number One Cup at the Covered Dish in Gainesville
*2/7/64: Beatles arrive in the U.S.
2/7: Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Masters at the Old Town School
2/7: Number One Cup at The Rubb in Tampa
2/8: Number One Cup at the Go Lounge in Orlando
*2/9: Ernest Tubb's birthday
2/9: RELS: Built to Spill, Sparklehorse, John Wesley Harding, Sam Prekop,
Trio II (Dolly, Emmylou & Linda), Martin's Folly, also what could be an
interesting soundtrack, Jawbreaker, with The Donnas, Letters to Cleo, Shampoo,
etc.; Re-ish -- Gene Autry, The Bad Livers (Dust on the Bible!), The Byrds,
Roky Erickson, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis, Lou Reed, Duane Eddy, Jimmy LaFave, Elvis,
Doc Watson & David Grisman. Also, Anarchy, Angst and Bollocks: The U.K. Punk
Anthology
2/9: Number One Cup at Cowhaus in Tallahassee
*2/10: Robbie Fulks at Goose Island Brewery
2/10: Number One Cup at the Bayou in Baton Rouge
2/10: Alex Chilton & the Box Tops at House of Blues
*2/11: Thomas Edison's birthday
2/11: Number One Cup at Rudyard's in Houston
2/11: Webb Wilder, Wayne Hancock at House of Blues
2/11: BR5-49 at FitzGeralds
*2/12: House of Large Sizes at Lounge Ax
*2/12: Chris & Heather's Record Roundup at the Hideout, featuring Chris Ligon
and The Heatersons (Chris' kid brother's x-lint and very fun band)
*2/12: Charles Kim (Pinetop Seven) and Jeff Parker (Tortoise) invent music
together at Hot House
2/12: Semisonic at the Vic
2/12: Big Hello at Gunther Murphy's
*2/13: Orquesta Nabori, maybe Chicago's best salsa dance band, plays the
annual Valentine's benefit for the Nicaragua Solidarity Committee at the most
trenchantly progressive establishment in Chicago since it was founded by a
hippie commune, the Heartland Cafe in Rogers Park (six blocks from my house).
Wonder why this dance has moved from the building across from Double Door.
The space is probably overrun by art galleries, now.
2/13: Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire at the Hideout
2/13: NRBQ w/ Steve Ferguson at FitzGeralds
2/13: Edith Frost/Lullaby for the Working Class at the Empty Bottle
2/13: Scrawl at Lounge Ax
2/13: Casolando Valentine's Eve show at Schubas
2/13: The Cardigans at Metro
2/14: The Black Crowes at the Aragon
*2/15: Matt Groening's birthday
2/15-16: Mardi Gras with Terrance Simien at FitzGerald's (2/15 there's a
Jambalaya cookoff with celebrity judges!)
2/15: Boys Choir of Harlem at Symphony Center
*2/16: George Jones 'n' Tammy Wynette's anniversary
2/16: RELS: The Damnations TX (YAY!!); Re-ish: Flaco Jimenez
*2/17: Robbie Fulks at Goose Island Brewery
*2/17: Lloyd Maines, Terri Hendrix, Cole Rain at Schubas
*2/18: Nick Drake's birthday
*2/18: Devil in a Woodpile at Martyr's
*2/18: LeRoy Bach (sez here he recorded and toured with Wilco and Liz Phair),
Gina Forsyth (fiddler/songwriter from New Orleans), Cow Lily in the Honky Tonk
Living Room at the Hideout
*2/19: Number One Cup at Lounge Ax
*Feb. 19 Terri Hendrix, Lloyd Maines and Trigger Gospel at the Hideout
*2/19/1878: Record player invented
2/19: Ellis Paul at Schubas
2/19: Anna Fermin's Trigger Gospel at the Hideout
*2/20: Robert Altman's birthday
*2/20: Volo Bogtrotters at the Hideout
2/20: The Silos, Susan Voelz, The Mary Janes at Double Door
2/20: Dave Alvin & The Guilty Men w/Terri Hendrix and Lloyd Maines at
FitzGerald's
2/20: Iris DeMent at the Old Town School
2/20: June of '44 at Lounge Ax
*2/21/1965: Malcolm X killed
2/20 & 21: Lauryn Hill at the Chicago Theater (sold out)
*2/21: Benefit for School of the Americas Watch, a movement to close the U.S.
funded training ground for the national guards of Latin American
dictatorships, 2 p.m. at St. Scholastica Auditorium, 7416 N. Ridge Ave. SOAW
founder Fr. Roy Bourgeois will speak; the music program will feature Chicago
activist band Voices.
*2/22: Spade Cooley's birthday
*2/23/1972: Elvis and Priscilla divorce
2/23: RELS: Steve Earle and the Del McDoury Band, Waco Brothers, Sebadoh,
Paul Westerberg, Kelly Willis; Re-ish--Dave Edmunds, Merle Haggard, Lightnin'
Hopkins, Johnny Cash, The Meat Puppets, Ricky Nelson, Willie Nelson
*2/23: James McMurtry at FitzGeralds
2/23: Citizen King at Metro (disclosure: My nephew road manages them)
*2/24: Robbie Fulks at Goose Island Brewery
*2/24/1991: Webb Pierce dies
*2/24: Waco World listening party at Delilah's
2/24: Hoot Night at Schubas: Songs about Boys' Names
*2/25: Robbie Fulks at Chicago Cultural Center
*2/25: Birthday of Faron Young and Ralph Stanley
*2/25-26: Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band at the VIC
*2/26: Johnny Cash's birthday
2/26: Alvin Youngblood Hart at Schubas
2/26-27: Marcia Ball at FitzGeralds; 2/27 is with Bill Kirchen!
*2/27: Tommy Womack at Lakeside Lounge in NYC
*2/27: John Steinbeck's birthday
2/27: Andrew Bird with Devil in a Woodpile at Double Door (I love the idea of
this bill!)
2/27: Marlee MacLeod, 8 p.m. at Borders Books & Music, Evanston
2/27: Tito Puente at House of Blues
2/27: David Grubbs at the Empty Bottle
2/27 & 28: Waco Brothers "Waco World" release party at Schubas
*3/1: Anniversary of Johnny and June Carter Cash
*3/2: Birthday of Doc Watson and Dr. Seuss
3/2: RE-ISH-Marvin Gaye, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson
*3/4: John Duffey's birthday
*3/4 Dan Black of the Black Family in the Honky Tonk Living Room at the
Hideout
3/4: Sir George Martin presents a multi-media show on the making of Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
*3/5: Jeff Tweedy solo at Harper College
*3/5/1963: We lose Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins
3/5: Afghan Whigs at Metro
*3/6: Bob Wills' birthday
*3/6: Bluegrass & BBQ with the Reno Brothers and Special Consensus at
FitzGeralds
3/6: Don Walser & The Pure Texas Band at the Old Town School; Hot Club of
Cowtown opens
3/6: Bloodshot CD release party: The Riptones, at Schubas
*3/7: Townes Van Zandt's birthday
3/9: RELS: WILCO, Citizen King, Joe Henry, Van Morrison; RE-ISH Afghan
Whigs, Roky Erickson, Kinky Friedman, Elvis Presley
3/10: Brian Wilson at the Rosemont Theater
*3/11: Fred Eaglesmith at FitzGeralds
3/11: Salt n Pepa at House of Blues
*3/12: Jack Kerouac's birthday
*3/12: Brave Combo (the Aristotilian ideal wedding band) at FitzGeralds
3/12: Blind Boys of Alabama at the Old Town School
3/12: Dan Bern at 8; Split Lip Rayfield and Slobberbone at 10 at Schubas
*3/13/1975: George and Tammy divorce
3/13: Gladys Knight w/The Temptations at Arie Crown
*3/14-15: Joe Henry at Schubas
3/16: RELS- Terry Allen, Jeff Beck, Mojo Nixon, Chris Smither; RE-ISH Meat
Puppets, Graham Parker, Television
*3/18: Birthday of Charley Pride and Wilson Pickett
3/19: NDTV: Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band on Conan
*3/22: Birthday of Charlie Poole
*3/23: RELS: Mary Lee's Corvette, John Dee Graham, Bill Lloyd, Iggy Pop, Steve
Wynn; RE-ISH Dave Edmunds, John Fahey
*3/24-25: Freedy Johnson at Schubas
*3/25: Freakwater at the Chicago Cultural Center
*3/25: Birthday of Robbie Fulks, Hoyt Axton and Aretha Franklin
*3/26: Tennessee Williams' birthday
3/26: Dr. Demento plays Oshkosh, WI if yer lookin' for a road trip
*3/27: Jimmy LaFave at FitzGeralds
3/30: RE-ISH Meat Puppets
*3/31: Bob Egan at Schubas
*3/31: Lefty Frizzell's birthday
*4/1: NDTV - Wilco on Letterman
*4/1: Anndrena Belcher (singer/storyteller/dressmaker from the Smokey
Mountains) in the Honky Tonk Living Room at the Hideout
*4/4: Dick Dale at House of Blues
*4/6: RELS: Tom Petty, Shaver
*4/8 Chris Mills and, from S.F., Red Meat in the Honky Tonk Living Room at
the Hideout
4/17: Kate & Anna McGarrigle at The Old Town School
4/27: RELS: Backsliders
5/8: Chris Smither and Steve Forbert at the Old Town School
Band Names O' the Week: Pointy Teeth at Morseland 2/6 (well, summer pointy!)
Also Little Blue Crunchy Things, just because I haven't seen them in an ad for
a while. At the Elbo Room 2/6.
Devil in a Woodpile Tuesdays at the Hideout, Sundays at Merle's BBQ in
Evanston. Wednesday, Rob and Nan Bloodshot alternate on good country
turntable at Delilah's. Torch piano-and-bass impresario Patricia Barber
follows the original and still champion Uptown Poetry Slam at the Green Mill
Sundays. And there's always The Blue Man Group until further notice.
PHONE FIRST!
Double Door 773-489-3160
Empty Bottle 773-276-3600
FitzGeralds 708-788-2118
Hideout 773-227-4433
Hot House 312-362-9707 (just call when you're bored with life or music
and see what's going on there. I never know the bands but it's always an
interesting evening)
House of Blues 312-923-2000
Lounge Ax 773-525-6620
Metro 773-549-0203
Old Town School 773-728-6000
Schubas 773-525-2508
