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 IT'S BIG, IT'S BLACK, IT'S SWEET: Just when you thought you were going to get a breather after the TAMMIES Club Crawl (I don't know about you, but I had a blast!), have some auditory recovery time and hang the liver out to dry, you're faced with another action-packed week on the popular music front: They're coming: Frank Black and Matthew Sweet, in the same week, both at the Club Congress. Yow-zah! Gettin' perk: I'm just going to come right out and admit that I am a big, big fan of Frank Black, so if I go on and on about what a genius he is, and how underrated he's been since the Pixies split, there won't be any misunderstandings. Okay, so the Pixies were, like, one of the best bands ever, and everyone seems to agree on that, but Frank Black's solo career has met with a little more criticism. Even now many of the hoi polloi, seemingly still resentful and disappointed about the demise of the Pixies, hold Black to impossibly high standards, disparaging with that tired old phrase, "but I really liked his first album." Lest I seem a little over-protective--some might even say over-zealous--where Black is concerned, I implore you to check out his show and see for yourself. Black revisits the Old Pueblo after an absence of more than two years, appearing with Morris Tepper and Wise Folk Malcontent, on Friday, April 25, at the Congo, 311 E. Congress St. It's going to be big!
LAST NOTES: Live jazz under the stars continues Sunday evenings through May 11 at the Tucson Jazz Society-sponsored Plaza Suite Spring Series, in the courtyard at St. Philip's Plaza, 4380 N. Campbell Ave. The Paul Horn Quintet featuring John Stowell performs at 5 p.m. (well, I guess there won't be all that many stars, but the sunset should by lovely) on Sunday, April 27. Horn is a renowned flutist, world traveler and teacher, to whom many attribute the mystical modern miracle also known as New Age music. He's a prolific and dynamic recording artist with nearly 40 albums, many of which were recorded in exotic locations around the globe: the seminal Inside The Taj Mahal among them. Long-time friends Horn and Stowell have been collaborating for a dozen or more years. Tickets, available at the door only, are $4 for TJS members, $8 for everyone else. Call the TJS hotline at 743-3399 for recorded information on this and upcoming shows. Tucson's Fourth Annual Bob Marley Festival promotes peace, love and unity this weekend in Kennedy Park. See this week's music feature for more on the reggae beat, or call KXCI at 623-1000 for event information.
For the past few months, die-hard blues promoter Terry O' has
successfully conspired with The Boondocks to bring national blues
talent to Tucson, hosting shows on nearly a weekly basis and putting
tremendous effort into establishing our fair city as a regular
stop on the blues circuit. No stranger to the challenging, hard-luck
life that's inspired much of the best blues, Percy Strother
makes most of those whiny-assed, my-baby-done-left-me-and-my-dog-died
modern country singers blush with shame. The Mississippi blues
legend appears on Saturday, April 26, at The Boondocks,
3306 N. First Ave. Tickets are only $5 at the door. Call 690-0991
more information.
--Lisa Weeks
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Sweet on Sweet: Matthew Sweet got the lion's share of
buzz at SXSW, and the post-showcase consensus of opinion concluded
he was THE SHOW at the conference. A brief glance around the Waterloo
Brewing Company revealed he indeed has the respect and admiration
of many of his peers--I couldn't help but notice 