Did you know you can order tickets directly from Schubas? Yep. Here's the
link for AOL folks:
<A HREF="http://www.schubas.com/schome.html">Schubas Tavern</A> . For
everyone else it's http://www.schubas.com/schome.html
HAVE FUN!
*= new or revised since last time
4/23: Alejandro Escovedo at Schubas
4/23: Latin Playboys, Lisa Germano at Park West
4/23: Shaver at FitzGeralds
4/23: Diane Izzo at Lounge Ax
4/23: Roy Orbison's birthday
*4/24: Benefit at North Center Bowl (where Rob Gjerso taught Jimmie Dale
Gilmore how to bowl for his walk on in, o what the hell was the name of that
movie, and also where the interiors were shot for Color of Money) to
establish the Kathy Orr Memorial Fund for scholarships at NIU's student
newspaper. Reader art director and empress of the scene Sheila Sachs is among
organizers. $25 buys bowling, pizza and tunes from a jukebox that is the
indie rock equivalent of the Lakeside Lounge's. S'wunderful! Details at
http://www.dennisspaeth.com.
4/24: Webb Wilder at FitzGeralds
4/24: Dolly Varden at Double Door
4/24: Anna Fermin & Trigger Gospel at the Heartland Cafe
4/25: Big Hello, 1-4 p.m. at Navy Pier Beer Garden
4/25: Shannon Wright CD release party at Schubas
4/25: Cubanismo! from Havana to FitzGeralds
4/26: Jimmy LaFave at the Hideout
4/26: Fellow Arizonan Duane Eddy's birthday. Also the birthday of J.B. Hutto
4/27: Here Be Monsters at Schubas. Benefit to help Stacey Earle pay medical
bills, featuring Kelly Hogan, Deanna Varagona, Charles Kim, Chris Mills, Nora
O'Connor (of The Blacks), Andy Hopkins
*4/27: RELS: Backsliders, Ben Folds Five, Old 97s, Tom Waits, Tar Hut
tribute to Ray Mason "It's Hearbreak That Sells"; RE-ISH - Meat Puppets,
Frank Zappa, The Kinks, Willie Nelson, Pure Prairie League, Strawbs
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.
*4/29: The Figgs, Milligrams, Shiney Staircase (w/Deanna Varagona) at Lounge
Ax
*4/30: Lonnie Brooks ACOUSTIC!!! at Budy Guy's. Devil in a woodpile opens.
4/30: Robbie Fulks, Chris Mills at Double Door
4/30: Willie Nelson's birthday (full moon)
4/30: Citizen King at Rosemont Theater
5/1-2: John Fahey at Schubas, 8 p.m.
5/1: Jon Langford and Kelly Hogan at probably the only place that still
celebrates May 1, the Heartland Cafe
*5/1: P2 Band The Barkers with the Webb Brothers at Lounge Ax
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.)
5/3: Retsin at Empty Bottle
5/4: RELS- The Blue Rags, Shaver; RE-ISH- Aretha's Amazing Grace
*5/4: Wayne "The Train" Hancock at Schubas
*5/5: The BOTTLEROCKETS acoustic at Schubas, TWO shows
5/5: Casolando at the Double Door's Cinco de Mayo celebration
5/5: Tammy Wynette's birthday
5/6: BIG STAR AT METRO! (Alex Chilton, Jody Stephens, Ken Stringfellow, Jon
Auer)
5/6: Birthday of Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Willie Mays
5/7: Wilco at the Riviera, Joe Henry opens SOLD OUT
5/7: The Derailers at Schubas
5/7: The Mary Janes at Double Door opening for Willy Porter
5/7: Terry Allen's birthday
5/7: Los Straightjackets at the Empty Bottle
5/8: The Ex-Husbands at Schubas
5/8: Seam, the Eternals, The Baltimores at Double Door
5/8: Robert Johnson's birthday
5/8: Chris Smither and Steve Forbert at the Old Town School, two shows
5/8: Seam, the Baltimores at Double Door
5/8: Los Straitjackets w/Crown Royals at FitzGeralds
5/9: Hank Snow's birthday
5/10: Mother Maybelle Carter's birthday
5/10: Built to Spill at Metro
5/11-12: Al Green at House of Blues
5/11: RELS - Flaming Lips, Snoop Dogg; RE-ISH - Bill Monroe, The Flamin'
Groovies (haha)
5/12: Vigilantes of Love at Schubas
5/13: Ladybug Transistor, Of Montreal at Schubas
5/14-15: John Wesley Harding and Ellis Paul at Metro
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!
*5/15: Say ZuZu at the Hideout
*5/15: Mike Ireland, Tommy Womack & The Geniuses, Scott McClatchy at the
Sutler in Nashville
5/14-16: Annual Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music at the Empty Bottle
*5/15: Kevin Gordon at Wilbert's in Cleveland
*5/18: RELS - Andre Williams/Sadies, Hangdogs, Bloque, Ron Sexsmith; RE-ISH -
Captain Beefheart, Lydia Lunch, Graham Parker, Roy Rogers, Dwight Yoakum
*5/18: Kevin Gordon at the Exit Inn in Nashville
5/18: Mike Ness, Deke Dickerson at Park West
*5/20: Bill Miller, Michael Fracasso at Schubas
*5/21: Graham Parker w/Jon Langford and John Rice at the Double Door
5/21: Corey Harris w/ Devil in a Woodpile at Chicago Folk Center (Old Town
School)
5/21: The Blacks, Casolando, Anna Fermin's Trigger Gospel at Metro
5/21: The Mary Janes at Elbo Room
5/22: Dave Schramm and Kate Jacobs at the Hideout
5/22: Anniversary of the Treaty at Appomattox; also Mary Cassatt's birhday
5/24: Jim O'Rourke at Empty Bottle
5/24: Bob Dylan's birthday
5/25: Here Be Monsters at Schubas
5/25: RE-ISH - Steve Goodman
5/25: Birthdays of Bonnie Guitar, Tom T. Hall and Miles Davis
5/27: The Silos, Tim Easton, Jim Roll at Schubas
5/28: Herb Ellis, Charlie Byrd, Bucky Pizzarelli and the Milt Jacson Quartet
at Symphony Center
5/28: Jack Logan and the Possibilities at Schubas. The Handsome Family opens
5/28: Sleepy LaBeef at FitzGeralds
5/28: Birthday of John Fogarty
5/28: Son Volt opens for John Mellencamp at the World
5/29: Birthday of J.F.K.
*5/30: Son Volt opens for John Mellencamp at the World
5/31: Johnny Paycheck's birthday
6/1: Birthday of Hazel Dickens and Marilyn Monroe
*6/1: RELS: (tent.) Carlos Santana w/Dave Matthews, Lauryn Hill & Wycleff
Jean. hm. RE-ISH - Captain Beefheart, Waylon Jennings
*6/1: Calexico with Pinetop Seven at Metro
*6/3: Calexico with Shannon Wright at Metro
6/3: Birthday of Allen Ginsberg and Curtis Mayfield
6/3 - 6/6: Chicago Bluesfest (we'll see)
6/4: Birthday of Texas Ruby
6/6: Sleater Kinney at Metro
*6/8: RELS: The Donnas, Pavement, Verbena; RE-ISH - Merle Haggard (A&E
Bio.), Joy Division, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison,
Pere Ubu
6/9: Les Paul's birthday
6/10: Howlin' Wolf's birthday
6/11/1949: Hank Williams debuts at the Opry
6/12: Fleadh Festival. Well, maybe they could have learned something from
last year. Anyway, if you want to risk it, pack plenty of water and go see
Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Hootie & the Blowfish, Shawn Mullins, John
Prine, Lucinda Williams, Taj Mahal, Shane MacGowan, Steve Earle & the Del
McCoury Band, John Fahey, etc, this time at a MOTOR speedway at Sportsmans
Park in Cicero.
*6/15: RELS: Cheap Trick (live), Fred Eaglesmith, Missy Elliot (one PG
version and another R version), Lyle Lovett. The Muffs; RE-ISH - Janis Joplin
6/15: Waylon Jennings birthday (I did not know this: Waylon Jennings was
bassist in Buddy Holly's band and gave up his seat on the plane to the Big
Bopper.)
6/18: Paul McCartney's birthday; anniversary of A.P. and Sara Carter
6/19: Lester Flatt's birthday
*6/22: RELS - Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys, The Flaming Lips
6/23: June Carter's birthday
6/25: Anniversary of the Battle of Little Big Horn
*6/26: Kelly Willis at the Taste of Chicago Country Music Festival
*6/25: Seam at Taste of Chicago
*6/27: Deana Carter, Dwight Yoakum, Robbie Fulks at the Taste of Chicago
Country Music Festival
7/6: RELS - Meat Purveyors
7/9: Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, the BoDeans at the World
7/22: RELS - Rico Bell
7/24-25: Old Town School's Chicago Folk & Roots Festival at Lincoln &
Montrose
*7/31: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers w/Lucinda Williams at the World
8/20: REM at the World
9/18: Tom Jones at House of Blues (for Jon Langford)
Special days copped from Heather's Li'l Country Calendar, available for $10
from The Record Roundup, 2034 W. Montrose
Band Name O' the Week: Poem Rocket 5/14-16 at Empty Bottle
On the radio, Sound Opinions Tuesdays, 10 'til midnight on 'XRT. 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 off this week
at the Green Mill, but there's still the original and still champion Uptown
Poetry Slam, 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
