916 Charleston St, Mobile, AL – Show starts at 7pm.
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0 Captain Beefheart’s 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing
Captain Beefheart's 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing
1. Listen to the birds
That’s where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. And watch hummingbirds. They fly really fast, but a lot of times they aren’t going anywhere.
2. Your guitar is not really a guitar
Your guitar is a divining rod. Use it to find spirits in the other world and bring them over. A guitar is also a fishing rod. If you’re good, you’ll land a big one.
3. Practice in front of a bush
Wait until the moon is out, then go outside, eat a multi-grained bread and play your guitar to a bush. If the bush doesn’t shake, eat another piece of bread.
4. Walk with the devil
Old Delta blues players referred to guitar amplifiers as the “devil box.” And they were right. You have to be an equal opportunity employer in terms of who you’re brining over from the other side. Electricity attracts devils and demons. Other instruments attract other spirits. An acoustic guitar attracts Casper. A mandolin attracts Wendy. But an electric guitar attracts Beelzebub.
5. If you’re guilty of thinking, you’re out
If your brain is part of the process, you’re missing it. You should play like a drowning man, struggling to reach shore. If you can trap that feeling, then you have something that is fur bearing.
6. Never point your guitar at anyone
Your instrument has more clout than lightning. Just hit a big chord then run outside to hear it. But make sure you are not standing in an open field.
7. Always carry a church key
That’s your key-man clause. Like One String Sam. He’s one. He was a Detroit street musician who played in the fifties on a homemade instrument. His song “I Need a Hundred Dollars” is warm pie. Another key to the church is Hubert Sumlin, Howlin’ Wolf’s guitar player. He just stands there like the Statue of Liberty — making you want to look up her dress the whole time to see how he’s doing it.
8. Don’t wipe the sweat off your instrument
You need that stink on there. Then you have to get that stink onto your music.
9. Keep your guitar in a dark place
When you’re not playing your guitar, cover it and keep it in a dark place. If you don’t play your guitar for more than a day, be sure you put a saucer of water in with it.
10. You gotta have a hood for your engine
Keep that hat on. A hat is a pressure cooker. If you have a roof on your house, the hot air can’t escape. Even a lima bean has to have a piece of wet paper around it to make it grow.
RIP Captain Beefheart
0 Dirty Bourbon in Gambit Weekly
Dirty Bourbon River Show appears in this week's Gambit
Noah Bonaparte Pais just did a really nice, well thought-out piece on us in this week’s Gambit, check it out:
Only a band as genetically theatrical as the Dirty Bourbon River Show could subdivide a 30-minute EP into a three-act affair. In July, the New Orleans ensemble issued Free Love, its second self-released record this year, as merch-table fodder and an appetite-whetting intermezzo between Vol. 1, its February debut, and Vol. 2, due in spring 2011. But the platter took on a life of its own: a triple-gatefold, snow-globe carnival whose little big top houses three different introductions and even more personalities, segueing seamlessly from kazoo- and clarinet-blown circus shenanigans to smooth-croon lounge, and finely fingered folk ballads to banjo hoedowns, jazzy sax solos and staccato piano jams…
Read the full article here: www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/working-the-strip
0 Prospective Bookers, Lookers & Hookers: Welcome
Welcome prospective bookers, lookers & hookers to the Dirty Bourbon River Show
0 What We’re Up To – November
What we’re up to:
1) Booking 2011
2) Finishing Volume II
3) Only 3 burlesque shows left this year! —> Come on out to the Howlin’ Wolf Den tonight! 905 S. Peters ~ The Good Stuff
0 Let’s Grow a Beard – Week Eleven
Noah's Beard Grows and Grows!
Mmmm… it’s like a beautiful shaggy monster…
0 Back in New Orleans
Just pulled in to yesterday… had an amazing Halloween Tour; feels good to be back.
Thank you everyone who showed us such good hospitality on the road – specially Peter, Julie, Doug, Billy & most importantly, Holy Ghost Tent Revival. Mucho pictures and videos to come as we get them processed.
Catch us at our normal spot tonight – Wolf’s Den – for Big Busk Burlesque! Only one month left!
Mucho love,
Noah
0 The Virgina Countryside
Big Charlie took this
1 Halloween 2010 Tour
The Dirty Bourbon River Show hits the road with Holy Ghost Tent Revival for a 2010 Halloween tour in Virginia and the Carolinas
Who: Us (the Dirty Bourbon River Show) and Greensboro, NC 6 piece Holy Ghost Tent Revival. Heard of ’em? They’re amazing; we’ve hosted them twice here in New Orleans, and are super excited to be joining them in their territory for the first time – check ’em out here, you will NOT be disappointed:
What: Ruckus, mayhem, love, whiskey, foot stompin’ dancin’, bawlin’, brawlin’ and all that good stuff.
When: Now until November
Where:
| Wednesday, October 27, 2010
The Taphouse |
Set: 9:00 21+ |
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| Thursday, October 28, 2010 | ||
| Awful Arthur’s 108 Campbell Ave SE, Roanoke, VA |
Set: 10:00 21+ |
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| Friday, October 29, 2010 | ||
| Historic Isaac Taylor Courtyard 228 Craven Street, New Bern, NC |
Set: 9:00 All Ages |
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| Saturday, October 30, 2010 | ||
| Take The Lake @ Greenfield Lake Amphitheater 302 Willard Street , Wilmington, NC |
Set: 4:45 All Ages |
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| Sunday, October 31, 2010 | ||
| Hoodoo Voodoo Halloween @ Tin Roof 1117 Magnolia Rd, Charleston, SC |
Set: 8:00 21+ |
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Why: why the fuck not?
~ Noah Adams
0 Listen Up
Saturday, October 16th you need to be here.
Yo,
Ok, so here’s how it is: Just because there’s less oil from the BP spill floating around now doesn’t mean that that shit is over. It’s right around now that we’re starting to feel the real effects of this great misdeed. Tourism – the unfortunate lifeblood of our fair city of New Orleans – is super low this fall – restaurants closin, less drinkin’, Saints ain’t doing so good – and it’s trickling into the families. Less money = less food, poorer education for the kids. That’s some fucked up shit.
Let’s help fix that shit.
Coleman Jernigan has helped to organize a coalition of friends, musicians, and advocates to assist the United Way of Greater New Orleans to host a day of benefit concerts at The Howlin’ Wolf and Howlin’ Wolf Den in the Warehouse District of New Orleans.
And that shit is gonna be bangin’. Check out this lineup:
Howlin’ Wolf’s Den SideStage
12:45 The Tangle
1:30 Ben Diegnan
2:15 Margie Perez
3:15 Alexis Marceaux
4:15 Lynn Drury
5:15 Coyotes
6:15 Cortland Burke
7:15 Andrew Duhon
8:15 Justin Trawick
Howlin’ Wolf MainStage
2:15 Coleman Jernigan Project
3:00 Matt DeOrazio and Sweet Jones
3:45 M@ Peoples Collective
4:30 Dee 1
5:15 Casey Robinson Band
6:00 Chris Aaron “Old Energy” Trailer
6:15-7:00pm Dirty Bourbon River Show
7:00 Michelle Mangione
8:00 Jackson Wetherbee Band
9:00 Hot 8 Brass Band
10:15 The Generational’s
11:30 New Orleans Indie Rock All Stars
Now that’s a line-up. That’s a lot of really good music. For a really good cause. The lady playing after us wrote a song with Grace Slick. You should definitely come on out.
Tix only $15 in advance. $20 day of.
20 acts. 2 stages. Saturday, October 16th – 905 South Peters St. in New Orleans.
Come support something good, and hear something amazing.
Dirty Bourbon River Show 