See? Aren't you glad I told you to go see them? Number One Cup will perform
its final show at Lounge Ax tomorrow night. They are folding their proverbial
tent to pursue other interests, so if you didn't go, you've lost your chance.
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
*2/19: Big Hello unplugged at Uncommon Ground, 9 -11p.m. precisely
2/19: Number One Cup at Lounge Ax
2/19: 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: 8 p.m., Jeff Tweedy, Diane Izzo, Leroy Bach and others play at the Hot
House to benefit Community Outreach Intervention Projects (COIP), a street
based HIV prevention program for disenfrachised substance users in Chicago.
*2/20: NDTV: Lucinda Williams on Saturday Night Live
*2/20: NDTV: Lucinda Williams on Hard Rock Live/VH1
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: June of '44 at Lounge Ax
2/20: Iris DeMent at the Old Town School
2/20 & 21: Lauryn Hill at the Chicago Theater (sold out)
2/21/1965: Malcolm X killed
2/21(I had the wrong date, before): Benefit for School of the Americas Watch,
a movement to close the U.S. funded training ground for the national guards of
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: Here Be Monsters at Schubas features Chris Ligon and Heather McAdams
performing heaven only knows what combination of movies/songs in some kind of
outfits, probably, Janet Kim, Tom Masters, Jon Langford pretending to be about
rich people dying slowly screaming he says. Hosted by rock legend Sally
Timms, whose beauty is exceeded only by the sheer awesomeness of her attitude.
(takes my breath away!)
2/23/1972: Elvis and Priscilla divorce
2/23: RELS: Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band, Waco Brothers, Sebadoh,
Paul Westerberg, Kelly Willis, Farmer Tan; Re-ish--Dave Edmunds, Merle
Haggard, Lightnin' Hopkins, Johnny Cash, The Meat Puppets, Ricky Nelson,
Willie Nelson
*2/23: James McMurtry at FitzGeralds; Dolly Varden opens
*2/23: The VanderMark Five at the Empty Bottle
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: Mudhoney at Lounge Ax
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; Deanna Varagona opens
2/26-27: Marcia Ball at FitzGeralds; 2/27 is with Bill Kirchen!
2/27: Devil in a Woodpile, The Blacks and Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire at
Double Door. Wotta bill!
*2/27: Trigger Gospel at Gunther Murphy's
2/27: Tommy Womack at Lakeside Lounge in NYC
2/27: John Steinbeck's birthday
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; Texas Rubies
open 2/27!!!
*2/27: NDTV: Lucinda Williams/Billy Bragg -- Austin City Limits
*2/27: NDTV: Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band --Sessions at West 54th
2/28 Jeff Tweedy at Lounge Ax
3/1: Anniversary of Johnny and June Carter Cash
3/2: Jeff Tweedy at Lounge Ax
3/2: Birthday of Doc Watson and Dr. Seuss
3/2: RE-ISH-Marvin Gaye, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson
3/4: Cash Money at the Empty Bottle
3/4: John Duffey's birthday
*3/4 Pine Valey Cosmonauts w/Dan Black of the Black Family opening in the
Honky Tonk Living Room at the Hideout
3/4: Sir George Martin presents a multi-media show on the making of Sgt.
Peppers 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: Hank Williams III at Lounge Ax
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: The V-Roys and the Texas Rubies at the Hideout
3/12: Brave Combo (the Aristotillian 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 (sold out)
3/14: Liz Phair at Lounge Ax
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
*3/20: Lyle Lovett at Rialt Square Theater (where IS that place? Some suburb
or other I reckon maybe)
*3/20: Peter Rowan and Tony Rice, with Danny Barnes (Bad Livers) opening, at
the Old Town School
3/22: Birthday of Charlie Poole
*3/23: RELS: Olivia Tremor Control, the Mary Janes, 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 Marlee MacLeod, Robbie Fulks, Hoyt Axton and Aretha
Franklin
3/26: Tennessee Williams' birthday
*3/26: Olivia Tremor Control at Lounge Ax
*3/26: Gladys Knight w/ The Temptations at Arie Crown
3/26: Dr. Demento plays Oshkosh, WI if yer lookin' for a road trip
*3/27: Sleater Kinney at Metro; all ages show which TixMonster is selling
only from its website
3/27: Jimmy LaFave at FitzGeralds
3/27: Rufus Wainright at Park West
3/30: RE-ISH Meat Puppets
3/31: Bob Egan at Schubas
3/31: Lefty Frizzell's birthday
4/1: NDTV - Wilco on Letterman
4/1-2: Kelly Willis with Bruce Robinson at Schubas
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 at the Hideout
*4/8: Elliott Smith at Metro, Internet-only TixMonster
*4/10: Old 97s at Double Door (thanks, Cathy!)
*4/15: Deanna Varagona in the Honky Tonk Living Room at the Hideout
4/17: Kate & Anna McGarrigle at The Old Town School
4/27: RELS: Backsliders, Old 97s?
*4/29: The Honky Tonk Living Room takes a field trip to the Chicago Cultural
Center in the Loop for a show featuring the Texas Rubies, Cole Rain and
features from Heather McAdams' soundies collection.
5/8: Chris Smither and Steve Forbert at the Old Town School
*5/9: Kelly Kessler and her band Ol' Rip open for Blue Mountain at the
Hideout.
Band Name O' the Week: Relative Ash (this always puts me in mind of an urn on
the mantle) at Metro 2/20; Terminal Bliss at Metro 3/4, Chasing Picasso at
Morseland (the one music club in my my very own 'hood) 3/20
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
