05.12.07
Posted in random - May 12th, 2007 at 2:59 pm by Cricket & Mimi
Last night, we caught part of a show where both of us were enjoying the music: good lyrics, polished sound, stripped down and not over-blown. The kind of thing you’d think we HCT girls would go for.
But wait!
As it turns out, the musician was someone we’ve seen around town and talked to and he’d made such a negative impression that we couldn’t even give him a break for good music. Instead of a review, I’ve tried assuage my bitterness at him not being a talentless hack by writing a high-handed, sanctimonious list of tips for jerks like him to adhere to in their future forays out into public:
HCT presents: What Not to Do: A guide to behaving in Nashville, including everything you’d think basic common sense would dictate, but apparently doesn’t.
(Subtitled: Because being a good musician isn’t enough. Being good looking isn’t enough. Maybe when you’re famous you can pay an army of PR people to make you look good, make you look like you have a winning personality, but until then, you’re just going to have to act right in public. Here are some hints on how to do that.)
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05.08.07
Posted in hot live action - May 8th, 2007 at 4:21 pm by Mimi
My best friend from childhood also lives here in Nashville, and she just sent me all these dumbass MySpace links to the pages of people we knew when we were kids. I spent like forty minutes over there doing NOTHING. I am considering defacing our MySpace page in a frenzy of self-inflicted retribution.
I just thought I lost the notes I took at the show I’m fixin’ to write about. This would not be the first time this has happened, but I’ve been having temper tantrums lately and I feel that losing my notes would have set off a Mount Vesuvius level eruption. Cricket’s life barely spared!
Before I write up the Drew Holcomb show from the other night, I want to make a passing mention of this piece of glory: Geoff Berner’s “Cards with Corby.” The other day I was listening to the CBC, as is my tendency, and Geoff Berner (a Canadian klezmer musician) was on jawin’ away with Sook-Yin Lee (pretentious Canadian “artist,” former MuchMusic host and current CBC radio host) about his new record when the conversation turned to this song and Corb Lund’s abilities as a card sharp. If you didn’t love Corb already, what more reason could you need than that he could take a man for the shirt off his back? [As if his cowboyness is not enough? –Daisy]
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