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A Hall Of Musical Gods
“Val’s Halla Records in Oak Park is hurting and could use your help,” Tom Marker writes on the WXRT website.
“[T]hings are getting tough. She has a smart plan for the future but the bills are mounting and she needs help to get over this current hump and on the the next phase. All of the details of how you can be involved are included in an excellent article in the Oak Park Wednesday Journal by Anna Lothson.”
Posted on December 11, 2012
By The Beachwood Rock Local Affairs Desk
“For the past 15 years, cartoonist Heather McAdams and her husband, musician Chris Ligon, have presented a delightful event each December at FitzGerald’s: Chris and Heather’s Country Calendar Show. McAdams sells her calendars, which feature her drawings of old-time country music stars and tons of factoids and humorous observations packed into practically every square,” Robert Loerzel writes on his Underground Bee blog.
“And each year, a dozen or so musical acts take the stage, paying tribute to one of the artists featured in the calendar by playing a couple of cover tunes.
“And in between all of those musical performances, a movie screen gets pulled down so that Chris and Heather can project 16mm films from their collection of classic country music.”
And this year’s show was the last show, according to the couple, because they can no longer devote the time it takes to put it together.
We are sad. You shoulda been there.
1. Robbie and Donna Fulks.
Posted on December 10, 2012
By The Beachwood Rock Local Affairs Desk
You shoulda been there.
1. Band of Horses at the Chicago Theatre on Sunday night.
Posted on December 7, 2012
Honoring The Jazz Legend Who Died Wednesday
“His Music Gave Jazz New Pop.”
1. By the Chicago School of Rock.
Posted on December 6, 2012
By The Beachwood Hillbilly Lovechild Affairs Desk
This Jon Langford classic isn’t, of course, about the fiscal cliff in Washington, D.C., but in some ways it might as well be – it’s about a man leaving the world that creates fiscal cliffs because he’s just too damn honest to continue perpetrating a fraud that makes him feel sick.
Here’s the original version, which appeared on the first Bloodshot Records sampler, For A Life Of Sin.
Like many great works of art, it can be interpreted as both an individual tale and a universal one.
Posted on December 5, 2012
A loose collection of whatnot.
1. The Chicago Loopers.
“Clorinda” featuring Bix Beiderbecke. From The Jazz Age Volume 4.
Posted on December 4, 2012
You shoulda been there.
1. The Stone Foxes at the Empty Bottle on Saturday night.
Posted on December 3, 2012
