Dirty Bourbon River Show

0 Big Busk! and a Van

With another Tuesday comes another sultry, smooth Dirty Bourbon burlesque residency as part of the Big Busk! at The Wolf’s Den (828 S. Peters) tonight! If you have yet to make it to one of these shows, then Buster you’re one of two things. Dead or you let your Tuesdays at work get you way too down. Come sit and hoot and holler for the lovely and mysterious Sin Lillies Burlesque Revue and the boys and maybe enjoy a shot of bourbon or two, it’s almost hump day anyway.

Tonight will be a little extra special as the boys welcome Bootsy back from his recent mission trip to Belize. Much props and many thank yous to Chris Guccione of Booty Trove and Bill Fletcher of 27 Lights for helping to hold down the fort while Bootsy was away.

On unrelated note, we bought a van. Scary? Yea, why wouldn’t it be? Exhilarating? Even more so. Here’s a shot of it, our lovely van model Anna and Big Charlie knew it was being taken at the time. Noah did not.

0 Tonight! A Spectacular & Magnificent Jamboree at the Big Top!

Dirty Bourbon River Show and Holy Ghost Tent Revival rock the Big Top Sunday, August 1st, 2010.

Tonight! A Spectacular & Magnificent Jamboree at the Big Top! Yessir ladies and gentlemen, come out early for one of the most exquisite, sultry, tickling summer evenings we’ve ever put together…

It’s going up at the Big Top (1638 Clio St.), 6pm tonight (Sunday August 1st) – we’ll begin with a 5 course meal, then at 8pm Dirty Bourbon will take the stage (our last show of the summer) followed by our North Carolinian friends Holy Ghost Tent Revival at 9pm.

Nothing in history will ever be like tonight. The cunning uniqueness of tonight’s occasion is spilling over the brim; I suggest you come drink from this cup before it’s all gone.

0 Tonight! Dirty Bourbon Burlesque!

07/27/2010
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Come catch Noah’s last night with the Burlesque Girls before he heads off to Portland for the rest of the summer (Big Charlie will run the show then) – Special guests tonight One Man Music Machine Braden Piper & The infamous Reverend Spooky Lestrange.

0 Gee Golly, It’s Happened Again…

0 Summer Playlist #2

Hustle-Murs

Twinz (Deep Cover)-Big Pun ft. Fat Joe

You Know My Steez-Gang Starr (RIP Guru)

Wild- J Dilla

I Want You Back-Jackson 5

Cuttin Headz- Ol Dirty Bastard

Strange Ways- Madvillian

General Patton- Big Boi

Unbelievable-Biggie

Hand On The Pump- Cypress Hill

0 Tom Waits – “Green Grass” – Acoustic Cover

0 Free Love Listening Party

07/15/2010
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Yes that’s right. Dirty Bourbon River Show will be performing the Free Love EP in its entirety at the Neutral Ground tonight 7.15. However, DBRS will not be the only band playing a record in its entirety. Glasgow will be on hand to preform their stellar rock opera, 1986. Yes that is correct, two bands, two whole records played from minute one to the recordings conclusion.

I know Magic — Even the toughest have a heart

Not enough? That’s fine, we got more for ya. Everyone, yes I mean EVERYONE who comes through the door will recieve a free copy of the Free Love EP to take home. And a sticker! And on top of all of that, as a special treat Dirty Bourbon will have Joe Shirley of Easy Company sitting in on accordion and keyboards throughout the night.

The details: July 15th (TONIGHT) at Neutral Ground Cafe, 5110 Danneel St NOLA, Doors open at 9, Glasgow on at 10 with DBRS to follow.

Free Love…Get Some.

0 Harvey Pekar 1939-2010

07/14/2010
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The loser lost its winner on Monday. Harvey Pekar died at the age of 70 on Monday. Author of the seminal American Splendor, Pekar depicted our lives through his. Splendor was the catharsis for any one who works 9-5, Monday to Friday with just the hope of covering that weeks bills and come back the next week to do the same.

I remember being introduced to Pekar in the same way many have been in recent years due to the release of the film of the same name starring Paul Giamatti and being instantly enamored. Being a touch of a comic book nerd myself (I have pretty much every Batman comic book from the early 90’s) I was struck how Harvey was able to instantly make a hero out of himself, a man working a dead-end, mundane job in a sleepy Midwest industrial town.

He took what adults relent to and what young men and women struggle against and made it beautiful. He reminded us of the poignancy of everyday life. He was even quoted as saying to the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 1994 that his work was about reflecting “a series of day-after-day activities that have more influence on a person than any spectacular or traumatic events. It’s the 99 percent of life that nobody ever writes about.” The loss of Harvey Pekar is truly the loss of a free spirit whose rebellion may have been quieter than Thompson’s but it was certainly as crucial if only for the work it left behind.

Here’s a link to a piece on Pekar’s death published in his hometown Plain Dealer out of Cleveland. Read it here.

0 Something Special

What we’ve got in store for you is nothing short of that. Special. DBRS has the proudest of pleasures of opening up for Bob Log III, a one man band who carries the tagline “My Shit is Perfect” tonight (7/12) at One Eyed Jacks. And perfect it is my friends, believe you me, that it is.

With a perfect combination of determination, gusto, and rollicking jams, Bob Log III is a force. Not even a force that is qualifiable like the force of nature or the force of one of Muhammad Ali’s punches in his prime. Bob Log transcends all of this to be known simply as a force. Whilst strumming away at his guitar and stomping his kick drum, you may find two lovely ladies in this mans lap. Oh, and my man wears a fighter jet pilot’s helmet while he makes everybody move to his hip shaking, head moving music.

This show will be something to experience. If not for yourself, then certainly for the generations to come. They will ask questions about this international man of mystery. Won’t you want to be able to answer them accurately?

So the nitty gritty details are as follows: One Eyed Jack’s, 615 Toulouse Street NOLA, tonight July 12th.

Doors will open up at 9pm and cover is $10.

I guess that settles what you’ll be doing with your Monday night. See ya there!