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July 10, 2010
Don’t Use Monday as an Excuse
A bunch of years ago a friend of mine gave
me disc and said, you’ve gotta check these guys out. The band, The
Gourds, was named after the monetary unit of
Haiti, and the album was called
Cow Fish Fowl or Pig.
And it’s great stuff, really.
I still have it, and it’s funny that the
songs pop up when I hit the random playlist for i-tunes, almost
without fail. Considering my music library is well over 20
thousand songs, I laugh every time I hear one of the tracks.
You know, a few months ago, these guys
were at Doug Fir in Portland,
and there was some talk of getting together a bunch of people for
the show, but the typical things happened. For the over 40-crowd,
a start time of 10 p.m. with 3 bands on the bill on a Wednesday night
didn’t seem like a great idea. So we said, “well, next time….we’ll
wait for a reasonable night and try to go then.”
But, lately, the “wait time” for the
“reasonable time” seems to be getting shorter and shorter.
I’ve got this theory, that if I just sit
still long enough, every music artist I’d like to see will be
drawn to this region and appear within an hour drive of my
doorstep.
Like, just this morning, I was informed of
a concert by the kind folks at Ticketmaster that, once again,
almost made me fall out of my chair (similar to when I found out
Yulegrass was coming to town.)
A guy I’ve been hoping to see, for a long
time, is gonna be at Edgefield at the end of August. Oh, and he’ll
happen to be on the bill with one of the living legends of music.
Edgefield, people. From my doorstep,
that’s even closer than the Rose Garden.
So, where was I. Oh yeah, waiting for a
reasonable time and date to go see The Gourds.
Well, as you might have guessed, here it
is: Monday, July 12, at the Waucoma Club.
The Waucoma Club, people. From my
doorstep, that’s closer than Edgefield.
And this time, not even the fact that it’s
a Monday will be an excuse. And as you’ll read in the interview,
Mondays are no excuse for the band, either.
See you there!
Kevin Russell of The Gourds was kind
enough to take time out of their busy NW tour for an
interview!
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