Columbia City Paper

Willie Nelson is “on the road again,”
spending
next month touring the East Coast with Asleep at the Wheel and
their new
album of Western Swing. Austin’s own Bismeaux Records releases Willie
and
the Wheel this coming Tuesday, an album that the late producer
Jerry Wexler
had been imagining for 30 years, now fully realized with his
hand-picked song
list. One selection, the 1927 instrumental favorite “South,” features
guests
Vince Gill and Paul Shaffer.

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Dear Midlands area advertising contacts,
Buying these jeans from you doesn’t really fit my business plan right
now, chief. Yeah, I know we went to school together and you’re
struggling in this economy and blah, blah, but I’m locked into a
contract with Dillard’s for another eight months. Plus, we’re trying to
get a “Best of” sticker for the door. And, bar/restaurant manager dude,
I just don’t think having dinner there is a wise investment for me at
this time. Hey, talk to regional, man! I appreciate what you’re trying
to do, but honestly, your decor offended my mother-in-law and I’ve
already spent all my beer money for this entire fiscal year. Sure, it’s
laughable to budget that way, but you think I have a business degree?
C’mon! How ‘bout you try me again in the fall during back to school?
Yeah, I know I’ve said that for four years. You gettin’ wise? (The
nerve a these fuckin’ guys! Hey, Paulie, you heard what this guy just
said?)

Columbia City Paper

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YOUR WAR QUESTIONS ANSWERED

On December 27, Israel attacked the Gaza Strip – a small coastal
enclave abutting Israel. Gaza is the very crowded home of 1.5 million
Palestinians.
As of January 15, 1,080 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza. 765 of
them were civilians. An additional 5,100 Palestinians have been wounded.
13 Israelis have been killed. Three of them were civilians. An additional 80 Israelis have been wounded.
The disparity in the number of casualties is largely the result of each side’s relative military strength.

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SATURDAY
JANUARY 31
 
Art Bar
The Queen Is Dead
Leisure

Headliners
Snapshots And Streetlights
The Decade
Aviary Fire
Veara
And Then There Was You   
Mac’s on Main
Natural Desire Band

New Brookland Tavern
O’Death
Pattern Is Movement
The Magnetic Flowers

Sudworks Taphouse
Harmony Groove

Utopia
Patti Ficken
Jody Creel
 
Wild Wing Caf̩ РVista
Dock Martin

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Thursday Feb. 5, New Brookland Tavern 

Flo-town natives
Sequoyah Prep School promise to charm your pants off with mellow and
well-crafted –but still kinda rocking—tunes from their recently
released Ghost Town LP. (To say nothing of their older stuff.) This
show is on the home state leg of a semi national tour, so be sure to
catch these guys before the rest of the country discovers them and they
really blow up and stay on the road all year.

Dead Confederate Friday Feb 6 

Headliners
   You certainly can’t go wrong with the Vic Chestnut and Elf Power
show at the Art Bar on February 5th, but the pick this issues goes to
another Athens-based act, Dead Confederate.  This alt-country meets
grunge band is worth the price of admission.  Fans like to say they
sound like My Morning Jacket meets Nirvana.  I could blather on, but
it’s an apt comparison.
-Bryan Alexander   

Harptallica, Saturday, Feb. 7 –New Brookland Tavern 

Harptallica was founded in 2006 when Ashley Lancz Toman and Patricia Kline, two students at the Eastman School of Music in New York State, decided to arrange Metallica’s “Fade to Black” for two harps. Two years later, the girls have recorded a cover album and play gigs across the country.
Metal purists may bristle at the fact that Toman first heard of Metallica during a music theory class in college. And the two definitely have the look of band geeks turned metal. Still the arrangements are well done and the show promises to be fun, if only because it’s not something you’re likely to hear everyday. Harptallica also gains brownie points in my book for focusing on older Metallica fare. There’s lots of stuff from Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets. (“Orion” actually sounds pretty cool on a harp. I’ve heard they do “Battery,” too.)
So, uh, get ready to chug some white wine spritzers and mingle! Whoo!!
Harpist Mollie Marcuson is slated to fill in for Kline during the January and February leg of the tour.

For the entire New Brookland Tavern schedule visit newbrooklandtavern.com  

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