Americans over here.Byline: ALAN NICHOL ON SUNDAY, at The Sage Gateshead, American outfit Lambchop's front man, Kurt Wagner, makes a rare solo outing. The full band were at The Sage a couple of years ago promoting the then newlyreleased Damaged CD, but the personnel tends to change from tour to tour. Wagner, however, usually in Forrest Gump-style headgear headgear, n the apparatus encircling the head or neck and providing attachment for an intraoral appliance in use of extraoral anchorage. headgear, radiologic, n a device that is used to protect the head from injury by radiation. , is always a constant. The All Music Guide described them as "arguably the most consistently brilliant and unique American group to emerge in the 1990s". Formerly called Posterchild, they were usually accompanied by the "alt.country" descriptor (1) A word or phrase that identifies a document in an indexed information retrieval system. (2) A category name used to identify data. (operating system) descriptor although there is a soul influence as well as traditional country. Wagner, the main writer and driving force of Lambchop, has recently recorded with Morcheeba (on the Charango cha·ran·go n. pl. cha·ran·gos A ten-stringed mandolin of Andean regions with a sound box traditionally fashioned from the shell of an armadillo or tortoise, now also made of wood. album) and with former Monkee Mike Nesmith, of whom he speaks very highly. THURSDAY sees yet more North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. visitors when the Canadian quintet Hungry Hill - from Whitehorse in the Yukon - heave into view at the Cluny. The musicians - two women and three guys - play in typical traditional bluegrass bluegrass, any species of the large and widely distributed genus Poa, chiefly range and pasture grasses of economic importance in temperate and cool regions. In general, bluegrasses are perennial with fine-leaved foliage that is bluish green in some species. style, around a single microphone, with a rotating lead of mandolin/banjo/ dobro/fiddle/guitar/bass and vocals, of course. The new album, Ride, has - according to the reviews - cemented the band's reputation as the best bluegrass outfit north of the 49th parallel. THURSDAY is also the night on which the much-travelled band Baka Beyond make a long-overdue return to the region when they stop-off at Gateshead's Caedmon Hall, above the Central Library. One of the first Afro-fusion bands - they formed in 1992 - Baka Beyond was inspired by a trip to Cameroon where the Baka hunter-gatherer tribe lived and their music prompted Martin Cradick and Su Hart to develop the infectious rhythms and simple melodies they heard. The band has since become a truly international affair with personnel from Brittany, Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal, Sierra Leone and the UK. The music - once called Afro-Celtic crossover - is a delight, whether you decide to dance or sit and enjoy those irresistible equatorial sounds. CAPTION(S): AMERICAN VISITORS - Hungry Hill |
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