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Seven Shows in Four Days
thursday:
Wooden Leg at the Hideout - fantastic as usual. We really have a treasure in Kelly Hogan. We are lucky to be alive in Chicago at this moment in musical history.

friday:
1. Rizwan-Muazzam - (Quawwali) at the OTS of Folk Music - amazing.
2. Hardscrabble at the Horseshoe (They have cans of PBR for $2, so they are officially ok by me, despite the disney-texas schtick.) Hardscrabble was fun. They call themselves a "jug band without a jug" which is better than anything I could come up with.

saturday:
1. Andrew Bird, Archer Prewitt and Clyde Federal at the Metro. Bird was boring and I left after about three songs. The opening acts were both pretty great. Clyde Federal finally found a really good bass player.
2. Blind Robin at the Horseshoe - I really enjoyed them. I can barely remember what they sound like, I was pretty drunk by then, but it was countryish rock I think. Perhaps Americana? I dunno.
3. The house "band" at Serbian place on Montrose. I'm still amazed at how non-western that music is. It freaks me out a little. If I just heard it and did not know what it was I would think that it was arabic. (it might have been four! but there was no band at The Fantasy Lounge)

tonight:
volunteering at the OTS for Robbie Folks' "Secret Country" series.

Seven shows in four days. It is time to give mr liver and mr and mrs eardrum a break.

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