music, yay!
Apr. 21st, 2004 11:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerWell, I'm not going to see John Gorka tomorrow night, but I did one better. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
redactrice and I saw Tracy Grammer tonight at Jammin Java.
I had only just discovered this place, but apparently it's been around since 2000. It started as a Christian coffee house with live music on the side and languished, but in late 2001 a couple of entrepreneurs bought it and revamped it a bit and reopened it in 2002 in reverse, as a live music venue with a coffee house on the side. It's right around the corner from us, it books some good acts, the atmos is wonderful (small but not horrendously crowded--intimate in a good way), the food and drink are excellent, and its smoke-free. So I expect I'll be spending some time there.
And Tracy Grammer... whew! I heard her open at the Birchmere for Richard Shindell (well, she played first, but it was pretty much a double bill), and she was wonderful. She plays mostly music that her ex partner, Dave Carter, wrote, and he wrote some amazing stuff. There's country twang from his Texas roots, gentle folk, whirlwind fiddle (courtesy of Tracy), overhung with fanciful lyrics that pass right over into the absolutely macabre and apocalyptic sometimes, thanks to Dave's evangelical mother. Listen to or read the lyrics to "Ordinary Town" to see what I mean. They closed with When I Go before doing one encore; that song is another good example of Dave's mystical, poetic, constantly astonishing lyrics:
and when the sun comes trumpets from his red house in the east
he will find a standing stone where long i chanted my release
he will send his morning messenger to strike the hammer blow
and i will crumble down uncountable in showers of crimson rubies when i go
What a wonderful evening (and I was feelign tired and dragged out when it started, so that's saying something...
redactrice and I saw Tracy Grammer tonight at Jammin Java. I had only just discovered this place, but apparently it's been around since 2000. It started as a Christian coffee house with live music on the side and languished, but in late 2001 a couple of entrepreneurs bought it and revamped it a bit and reopened it in 2002 in reverse, as a live music venue with a coffee house on the side. It's right around the corner from us, it books some good acts, the atmos is wonderful (small but not horrendously crowded--intimate in a good way), the food and drink are excellent, and its smoke-free. So I expect I'll be spending some time there.
And Tracy Grammer... whew! I heard her open at the Birchmere for Richard Shindell (well, she played first, but it was pretty much a double bill), and she was wonderful. She plays mostly music that her ex partner, Dave Carter, wrote, and he wrote some amazing stuff. There's country twang from his Texas roots, gentle folk, whirlwind fiddle (courtesy of Tracy), overhung with fanciful lyrics that pass right over into the absolutely macabre and apocalyptic sometimes, thanks to Dave's evangelical mother. Listen to or read the lyrics to "Ordinary Town" to see what I mean. They closed with When I Go before doing one encore; that song is another good example of Dave's mystical, poetic, constantly astonishing lyrics:
and when the sun comes trumpets from his red house in the east
he will find a standing stone where long i chanted my release
he will send his morning messenger to strike the hammer blow
and i will crumble down uncountable in showers of crimson rubies when i go
What a wonderful evening (and I was feelign tired and dragged out when it started, so that's saying something...
