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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
‘ACL’ announces dates for Mumford, Flogging Molly tapings
Both in April: Mumford & Sons on April 25 and Flogging Molly on April 26. Details on ticket giveaways in the “Austin City Limits” blog.
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Go-Go’s to end tour at the Paramount Aug. 28
UPDATE: According to Texas Music editor Richard Skanse, who recently put Kathy Valentine on the cover, the Go-Gos decided, during their hiatus, to not bill this as their farewell tour. We thank him for the clarification. Also, the band played Antone’s on their 2008 tour.
The Go-Gos will embark this summer on a tour, which was postponed last year when guitarist Jane Wiedlin suffered a bad fall while hiking in Northern Calif. According to the itinerary on Pollstar, the new wave girl group pioneers will play at the 1,000-capacity Paramount Theatre in Austin Aug, 28.
Go-Gos bassist Kathy Valentine is an Austin native who still lives here. On their 2008 tour the band booked a show at Antone’s, a much smaller venue than the rest of the itinerary.
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Full house of music for Pinetop ‘Celebration’ at Antone’s
The funeral of Pinetop Perkins, Monday at Cook-Walden, was a mix of stories, tributes and music from some former Muddy Waters bandmates, including the great harmonica player James Cotton. The “Celebration of Life” that followed at Antone’s was all about the music. A single red rose was placed on the bench where Perkins would sit three or four nights a week, seling CDs and DVDs, and the capacity crowd of about 700 told their own stories of meeting the man who made his name playing with Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller), then cemented his legend playing in the great Muddy Waters Blues Band of the 1970s.
The Peterson Brothers of Bastrop, who were 13 and 11 a couple years ago when they played on bills with Perkins, 97 when he died last week, got the music going, then stuck around to play with Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Pinetop’s Waters bandmate. Although one of the greatest blues drummers ever, Smith is now a harmonica-playing singer who’s got the Little Walter style down.
Preceding Smith was a short, yet entirely terrific set by Marcia Ball. There oughta be something up on You Tube because a couple dozen amateur lensmen were pressed up to the front with their camera phones. Because there were some elderly funeral-goers in attendance, tables and chairs were set up in front of the stage, but some in the crowd got to the front anyway.
The tribute show was supposed to be over by midnight, but by that hour, Carolyn Wonderland wasn’t even close to hitting the stage. She and her new husband, the political comedian A. Whitney Brown, wandered through the audience, trading Pinetop memories with other blues musicians in the crowd. It was a Monday night, but it felt like Saturday.
