You're on your own next week, kids. I'll be in Austin.
Tix go on sale at noon Saturday for Wilco at the Riv 5/7.
HAVE FUN!
Special days copped from Heather's Li'l Country Calendar, available for $10
from The Record Roundup, 2034 W. Montrose ***(ATTN Postcarders: If you don't
know who these people are, trust me, you will enjoy finding out.)***
*= new or revised since last time
*3/11: Pine Valley Cosmonauts salute Bob Wills at the Hideout
3/11: The Big Hello at Gunther Murphy's
3/11: Fred Eaglesmith at FitzGeralds
3/11: NDTV (repeat): Vic Chesnutt and Lambchop on Conan
3/11: Darden Smith with Greg Trooper at Schubas
3/11: Wilco instore at Tower Records on Clark, 8 p.m.
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; The Campbell Brothers
Sacred Steel Guitars open
3/12: Dan Bern at 8; Split Lip Rayfield and Slobberbone at 10 at Schubas
3/13: V-Roys at FitzGeralds
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; Josh Rouse opens
*3/16: Devil in a Woodpile at the Chicago Cultural Center (noon birthday
salute to mandolinist Yank Rachel)
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
*3/19: Songs Ohia at the Empty Bottle
3/19: Smog at Lounge Ax
3/20: Lyle Lovett at Rialto Square Theater in Joliet, IL, birthplace of my
mother
3/20: Peter Rowan and Tony Rice, with Danny Barnes (Bad Livers) opening, at
the Old Town School
*3/20: Baxter at the Heartland Cafe
3/22: Birthday of Charlie Poole
3/23: RELS: Olivia Tremor Control, Terry Allen, the Mary Janes, Mary Lee's
Corvette, John Dee Graham, Bill Lloyd, Iggy Pop, Steve Wynn, Friends of Dean
Martinez; RE-ISH Dave Edmunds, John Fahey, Sam Phillips
3/24-25: Freedy Johnson at Schubas; Chris Mills opens on the 25th
3/25: *XRT Benefit Concert - for The Neon Street Program For Homeless Youth
* 1st WALTZ: LINE UP: Lonnie Brooks, Sugar Blue, The BoDeans' Sammy Llanas,
Bob Griffin, Blondie Chaplin, Rick Danko, Alejandro Escovedo, Jon Langford,
Ivan Neville, Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick, Cemak Rice, Sonis Dada, Mavis
Staples and Gary Yerkins
3/25: Freakwater at the Chicago Cultural Center, 6:30 p.m.
3/25: Birthday of Marlee MacLeod, Robbie Fulks, Hoyt Axton and Aretha
Franklin
3/25-26: Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band at the VIC
3/26: Tennessee Williams' birthday
3/26: Freakwater at Schubas
3/26: Olivia Tremor Control at Lounge Ax
3/26: Gladys Knight w/ The Temptations at Arie Crown
3/26: Devil in a Woodpile w/ Honeyboy Edwards ! at Metro
3/26: Dr. Demento plays Oshkosh, WI if yer lookin' for a road trip
3/27: Sleater Kinney at Metro
3/27: Tentative: Sadies at Lounge Ax
3/27: Jimmy LaFave at FitzGeralds
3/27: Rufus Wainright at Park West
3/28: Sons of the Never Wrong at Schubas
*3/29: Texas Ruby Jane Baxter Miller and bassist Kent Kessler in a Chicago
Cultural Center birthday salute to Reba McIntyre
3/29: Here Be Monsters at Schubas
3/30: RE-ISH Meat Puppets
3/31: Bob Egan at Schubas; birdog opens
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
4/1-2: Kelly Willis band with Bruce Robinson at Schubas
*4/2: Birthday of Emmylou Harris and Marvin Gaye
*4/3: Johnny Horton's birthday
*4/4: Muddy Waters' birtday; Spring Forward
4/4: Dick Dale at House of Blues
*4/6: Merle Haggard's birthday
4/6: RELS: Tom Petty, Paul K; RE-ISH--Marvin Gaye, Meat Puppets
*4/7: Birthday of Billie Holiday and Bobby Bare
4/8 Chris Mills and, from S.F,. Red Meat at the Hideout
4/8: Elliott Smith at Metro, Internet-only TixMonster
*4/8: Buckwheat Zyedeco at House of Blues
*4/9: Carl Perkins' birthday
4/9 Sparklehorse w/Varnaline at Double Door
4/9-10: Vic Chesnutt at Schubas
*4/10: Koko Taylor at FitzGeralds
4/10: Old 97s at Double Door
*4/12: Birthday of Vince Gill and David Letterman
4/13: RELS: Mandy Barnett, Tom Petty; RE-ISH-- Bruce Springsteen
*4/14: Peter Case w/Robbie Fulks at FitzGeralds
*4/14: Loretta Lynn's birthday
4/14: FREE 10th Anniversary show at Schubas--Anna Egge 7:30, Casolando 9:30
4/14: Sebadoh w/Verbena at Metro
*4/15: Birthday of A.P. Carter and Roy Clark; Titanic sinks
4/15: Deanna Varagona in the Honky Tonk Living Room at the Hideout
4/17: Kate & Anna McGarrigle at The Old Town School
*4/19: Anniversary of the first broadcast of the National Barn Dance, 1924
4/20: RELS: Alejandro Escovedo; RE-ISH--Mekons
*4/20 Gomez at Double Door
*4/21: Ira Louvin's birthday
*4/22: Alejandro Escovedo at FitzGerald's
4/23: Alejandro Escovedo at Schubas
4/23: Shaver at FitzGeralds
*4/23: Roy Orbison's birthday
*4/26: Fellow Arizonan Duane Eddy's birthday. Also the birthday of J.B.
Hutto
4/27: RELS: Backsliders, Old 97s?
4/28, 4/30, 5/1: Neil Young at Rosemont Theater. $75 or something like that.
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.
*4/30: Willie Nelson's birthday (full moon)
4/30: Citizen King at Rosemont Theater
*5/1: Sonny James' birthday; Elvis & Priscilla's wedding
5/1: Postcard Annie's wedding! (Me'n Postcard Annie spent almost 9 hrs heel
to toe on the chainlink fence in front of the stage at Wavefest '97 in
Charleston. That's what it takes to get your life events on my calendar. .
.on the off chance you were wondering. <g>)
*5/5: Tammy Wynette's birthday
*5/6: Birthday of Jimmie Dale Gilmore's and Willie Mays
*5/7: Wilco at the Riviera
*5/7: Terry Allen's birthday
*5/7: Los Straightjackets at the Empty Bottle
*5/7: Wilco at the Riv
*5/8: Robert Johnson's birthday
5/8: Chris Smither and Steve Forbert at the Old Town School
*5/9: Hank Snow's birthday
5/9: Kelly Kessler and her band Ol' Rip open for Blue Mountain at the Hideout
*5/10: Mother Maybelle Carter's birthday
5/10: Built to Spill at Metro
*5/11-12: Al Green at House of Blues
5/14: On this date, Heather has randomly noted that Queen Kahena of Algeria
had a harem of 400 men! Some girls have all the luck!
5/14-16: Annual Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music at the Empty Bottle
5/21: The Mary Janes at Elbo Room
*5/22: Anniversary of the Treaty at Appomattox; also Mary Cassatt's birhday
*5/24: Bob Dylan's birthday
*5/25: Birthdays of Bonnie Guitar, Tom T. Hall and Miles Davis
*5/28: Birthday of John Fogarty
5/28: Son Volt opens for Mellencamp at the World
*5/29: Birthday of J.F.K.
*5/31: Johnny Paycheck's birthday
Band Names O' the Week: Today Is My Super Spaceout Day at Metro 4/9
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 is
back this Sunday at the Green Mill following 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
