Monday, February 1, 2010 / 9:00 PM Regular: $12
UCSD Student: $10 |
Bowerbirdsfeaturing julie doiron
Bowerbirds' debut album, Hymns for a Dark Horse, was nearly one hundred percent focused on the thesis that the earth is a sacred place with merit beyond us, and that humans are just visitors here. Its contrapuntal harmonies documented a moment in the life of the songwriter and the life of the band – Beth Tacular and Phil Moore living in an airstream in rural North Carolina, building a cabin of reclaimed boards by hand in the woods – but did so without, as far as we could tell, delving into their lives at all. While these weren't protest songs, per se, they had the wry anger of a "Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll." The songs were interconnected, both musically and thematically, a musical whitepaper of the very best, most listenable kind.
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