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01.22 THE WADING GIRL/ JOKES&JOKES&JOKES @ RESERVOIR
This is what small rooms were made for—rocking folk/folksy rock as well suited for a bonfire as a bar by bands borrowing folk's rustic simplicity, punk's something-to-say impetus and the DIY traditions of both. Roanoke, Va.'s Wading Girl lounges in Southern tropes—religion, small-town America and the freedoms/confinements of both. Wading Girl's got three records out, all of which are offered for free on the band's MySpace for your pre-show pleasure. Local duo Jokes&Jokes&Jokes relies on similar themes for its own parables driven by frontdude Owen FitzGerald's observational tomes. Donations/ 10 p.m. —Bryan Reed
RE-INTRODUCING...
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Haste almost got the better of Luego, the band of Durham songwriter Patrick Phelan. "I rushed the last [tour] and went out for about eight or nine months, and lost money pretty much every night," admits Phelan. "That's the quickest way to break up a band."
Sure enough, it did, and Phelan almost threw in the towel. Then Peter Holsapple, sometime player in The dB's, R.E.M. and Hootie and the Blowfish, talked him out of it. "Peter keeps telling me he wants to take a back seat, but he's been a real mentor and friend to me," says Phelan. "He came at the right time."
Since adding multi-instrumentalist Holsapple last fall, Luego has also earned some extra power with drummer Rob DiMauro and Roman Candle/ Max Indian members Nick Jaeger and Jeff Crawford. Phelan says there's a revival of rock classicism in Chapel Hill, citing Max Indian and The Old Ceremony as peers. In turn, this new Luego has traded its orchestral dabbling for a rock solid foundation in Neil Young-type roots rock, Comboland pop and even a touch of T. Rex swagger. "I feel like we're on to something pretty big," Phelan offers. He'll be giving out free two-song CD samplers of the bigness found on Luego's forthcoming LP tonight. Free/ 8 p.m. —Bryan Reed
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