Did you buy Alejandro's Bourbonitis Blues Yesterday? Hope so. I forgot to
put the release date on the calendar last week, though. Do go get you one
and definitely pick up the Backsliders' Southern Lines.
The calendar will be on Wednesday this week and next, so you'll just have to
comb through all the Reader ads your own selves. There are some new things
here, and plenty to keep you busy this weekend.
HAVE FUN!
*= new or revised since last time
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: Honky Tonk Living Room at the Hideout w/ Lone Star State and Old #8
5/6: Birthday of Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Willie Mays
*5/7: Baxter at the Hideout w/ Jane Baxter Miller, Ken VanderMark and Kent
Kessler
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: LeRoy Bach and Jay Bennet at the Hideout (KEWL!)
5/12: Vigilantes of Love at Schubas
*5/13 Dag Juhlin at the Hideout
5/13: Ladybug Transistor, Of Montreal at Schubas
*5/14: Mount Pilot at the Hideout
5/14-15: John Wesley Harding and Ellis Paul at Schubas; two shows each night
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
*5/16: Cat Power at Lounge Ax
*5/18: RELS - Tortoise and The Ex, Michael Krassner, Doc Watson & Chet
Atkins, Hal Tethcum, 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: Honky Tonk Living Room at the Hideout
5/20: Bill Miller, Michael Fracasso at Schubas
*5/21: The Honeydogs at Lounge Ax. Opening is Love Kit, the band that used
to have its practice space on my corner in the auto body shop. Glad to see
them moving up in the world!
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: Carter Lee Tribute night at the Hideout
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, MC5
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, the Hellacopters, June of 44, Rachels, Vandermark
5, 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), Hattifatteners (Syd Straw and Cat Power's
Chan Marshall), 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 - The Flaming Lips, Kim Richey, Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys
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
FEST Name O' the Week: The Burnt Hair Fest at Lounge Ax 5/10, with Starphase
23, Grumble Grumble, Novosonic, Salome
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 773-525-250
