'Train' steams into the past.Byline: LEWIS TAYLOR The Register-Guard Wayne "The Train" Hancock is the first to admit that he probably belongs in a different era. "If I was living in the '50s, I'd be just another hillbilly singer," Hancock said in a press release. "I'm not in it for the glamour. I got something to say, and I figure folks ought to hear it. `You have to be so damn good they can't ignore you." Hancock's uncompromising approach makes him somewhat of an anomaly in today's bottom-line country music world, but alt-country fans have acquired a taste for his warbling honky-tonk songs. On his latest CD, "A-Town Blues" (Bloodshot blood·shot adj. Red and inflamed as a result of locally congested blood vessels, as of the eyes. bloodshot Vox populi adjective ), Hancock yodels Yodels are frosted, cream-filled cakes that are made by the Drake's company, which is owned by the Interstate Bakeries Corporation. Yodels are distributed on the east coast of the United States. and strums like Hank Williams Noun 1. Hank Williams - United States country singer and songwriter (1923-1953) Hiram King Williams, Hiram Williams, Williams , covers Jimmie Rodgers Jimmie Rodgers, or Jimmy Rodgers could be one of the following:
Hancock comes to town for a 10 p.m. show Saturday at John Henry's, 136 E. 11th Ave. The Danged will open. The cover is $7. Bayou Cadillac, a regular draw at the Northwest Folklife The Northwest Folklife Festival is an annual festival of ethnic, folk, and traditional art, crafts, and music that takes place over the Memorial Day weekend in Seattle, Washington at Seattle Center, which was built for the 1962 Worlds Fair. Festival and the Oregon Country Fair The Oregon Country Fair (OCF) is a three-day fair that takes place yearly beginning on the Friday of the second weekend in July in Veneta, Oregon, approximately 15 miles west of Eugene, with an attendance of approximately 45,000 over the three day period, with attendance peaking , will be at Sam Bond's Garage, 407 Blair Blvd., at 9:30 p.m. Saturday. The Northwest ensemble plays cajun, zydeco zydeco (zī`dĭkō'), American musical form originating among the African-American Creoles of Louisiana. Drawing on elements of traditional Cajun music as well as jazz, country and western, and blues, it is characterized by French lyrics, , country blues and jug band music. Local folk singer Peter Wilde and his band will open the show. The cover is $3 to $5 on a sliding scale. Juggling theater, comedy and performance art, The Bobs use voice and "body percussion" to create unusual originals and colorful covers of songs by bands from Cream to the Grateful Dead. Together since 1981, the a cappella quartet played the main stage of the Oregon Country Fair this year. They will return to the area Sunday for an 8:30 p.m. show at the WOW Hall, 291 W. Eighth Ave. Tickets are $12 in advance or $14 at the door. Dishwalla, a Santa Barbara, Calif., rock band, comes to the Wild Duck, 169 W. Sixth Ave., on Sunday for an 8:30 p.m. show. Once a bunch of grunge grunge - /gruhnj/ 1. That which is grungy, or that which makes it so. 2. [Cambridge] Code which is inaccessible due to changes in other parts of the program. The preferred term in North America is dead code. holdouts, the members of Dishwalla took a more European approach on their most recent album, "And You Think You Know What Life's About." Producer Marc Waterman (Elastica, Ride), helped give the band a more layered, high-tech sound, and Dishwalla began using drum machines, vocal filters and other effects. The local four-piece band alterEGO and Eugene folk singer Elise Coakley will open the show. Tickets are $7 in advance through Fastixx. CAPTION(S): Above: Wayne `The Train' Hancock rolls into John Henry's on Saturday at 10 p.m. Left: Dishwalla will break out its new, more European sound for a Sunday appearance at the Wild Duck. Pop music scene |
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