DBRS | Dirty Bourbon River Show

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:

www.holyghosttentrevival.com

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 17 E. Queens Way, Hampton, VA	Set: 9:00 21+

Thursday, October 28, 2010
Awful Arthur’s 108 Campbell Ave SE, Roanoke, VA	Set: 10:00 21+

Friday, October 29, 2010
Historic Isaac Taylor Courtyard 228 Craven Street, New Bern, NC	Set: 9:00 All Ages

Saturday, October 30, 2010
Take The Lake @ Greenfield Lake Amphitheater 302 Willard Street , Wilmington, NC	Set: 4:45 All Ages

Sunday, October 31, 2010
Hoodoo Voodoo Halloween @ Tin Roof 1117 Magnolia Rd, Charleston, SC	Set: 8:00 21+

Why: why the fuck not?

crazy-halloween-costumes1 — Don't forget your Halloween costume!

~ Noah Adams

0 Labor Day Bash Tonight!

Wanna drink a bunch of beer, eat mounds of irresistable food and listen to five dangerously good bands tonight? I bet you do.

So how bout you mosey over to 219 S. St. Patrick st in Mid-City at 5pm tonight.

Who’s rockin, you ask? Us. And Blue Party (who by the way is celebrating the release of their latest disc ‘Too Young’ tonight!). Sun Hotel, Yojimbo, and Booty Trove Brass Band will all also be on hand.

Doors open at 5 but we will be part of a sencond line starting at Crescent Pie and Sausage (Banks and Alexander) at 4

We’ve been setting up all morning,peep the progress

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 Gee Golly, It’s Happened Again…

0 Tom Waits – “Green Grass” – Acoustic Cover

0 Harvey Pekar 1939-2010

07/14/2010
by dirtybourbonrivershow
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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!

boblog_2 — And you thought I was kidding

0 Free Love

Here it is! The Free Love EP, a love story told in three acts. Don’t let the title deceive you, it’s not all about free love. it is a love EP that is free. Free as in there is no cost to make this newest hot slice of Dirty Bourbon magic yours to play at will. Go download it on our bandcamp site, cuddle up next to whomever it is you call yours and press play.

Also, it is Big Charlie’s birthday today, (yes this was all planned to happen in conjunction with our ringleader adding another year of wisdom under his belt), so if you happen to come to our show tonight (also Free) at Banks Street Bar located 4401 Banks Street NOLA give Charlie a holler, it would make his birthday.

One Love

Download the album here

0 Freedom

Land of the free, right? We’re free to work and live as we please. We can live in any neighborhood, work any job, love whomever we choose. However this freedom is not free. And I don’t mean that in necessarily the same way your typical chart topping country act means it. I mean that the citizenry has worked for and earned it. Freedom is a right that is earned by tireless work and an unwavering focus on one goal. Freedom. So that we can walk the streets as we choose, buy and sell as we choose. But why work for freedom? Why push ourselves so hard to have the life we want for ourselves?

One Love

0 Week 2: Dirty Bourbon Burlesque Residency

It's round two of Dirty Bourbon's weekly burlesque residence - Tuesday, June 8th - 8:30 - $5

Howdy yall, tonight (Tuesday the 8th) marks week two of our Dirty Bourbon Residency. If you missed the 1st one, or you just can’t get enough, come check us out tonight at the wolf: