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Adam Brodsky Breaking A World Record |
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by Zach Miller
Email: zcmshows (nospam) ucimc.org (verified)
Phone: 217-344-8820
Address: 1209 W. Oregon, Urbana |
21 Aug 2003
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50/50 Tour: Adam Brodsky with special guest Jaik Willis
Monday, August 25th @ 8pm
$7-$15 sliding scale at the door ($10 suggested)
http://www.adambrodsky.com
http://www.fiftyinfifty.com |
50/50 Tour: Adam Brodsky with special guest Jaik Willis
Monday, August 25th @ 8pm
$7-$15 sliding scale at the door ($10 suggested)
http://www.adambrodsky.com
http://www.fiftyinfifty.com
The Channing-Murray (above the Red Herring)
1209 W. Oregon St., Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 344-8820
All ages. Non-smoking. No alcohol.
Adam is making Urbana-Champaign his Illinois stop on his Guiness Record setting Fifty in Fifty Tour. Adam is as we speak setting an honest to god Guiness Record for a folk singer. He is playing in all 50 states in just 50 days and he will be the first folk singer on record to have done so. Check out http://www.fiftyinfifty.com for more
information about this.
Jaik Willis is an itinerant singer song writer based out of Bloomington-Normal. He has a most unique soaring falsetto and a wild eyes rolled in the back of his head fierce guitar style. He writes original songs, including a fantastic song about Freedom (the gas station). Jaik's sound is somewhere between Anti-Folk and The Band and it is unlike anything I've heard from anyone else. His energy is fierce, his vocal range is inhuman, his beard is long. You've gotta check this guy out.
Here's what I said about Adam Brodsky last time he played here:
Adam Brodsky plays anti-folk. Anti-folk is more like Woody Guthries folk than anything called "folk" that you'll hear. This is stripped down, raw, gritty folk. This is smart intelligent folk. This is dirty folk. Adam says things you've probably thought about but were too embarrased to say. Adam gets in your face and tells it like it is, with a smile, with a snarl, with a sarcastic twist.
Adam's shows are incredibly interactive. By the time you leave you'll know the choruses and punchy in-jokes to several songs. You'll have laughed. You'll probably have been briefly offended. And then you'll have laughed some more.
Adam Brodsky is community.
Adam sings about the erosion of our civil rights, the dirtiness of hippies, how bad his love life is, and how good it is in his dreams. He sings about love lost and roads traveled. He plays that mean and nasty harmonica/guitar combo that's made every great folkie famous. And we keep coming back for it, for reasons none of us understand.
Adam Brodsky is a fucking genius and a real asshole. And underneath it all he's the nicest guy I've ever met. He's got great friends all over the country. A couple of us even drove out to Philly to see his CD release show last winter. He inspires that kind of craziness.
Adam Brodsky, we're not scared of you. We're coming to your fucking folk show and we're going to clap!
Take our survey and get a free sampler CD for the folk music series:
http://folk.chambana.net
Find out about other shows at the IMC including indie-rock, punk, goth, folk, and alt-country:
http://shows.ucimc.org |
See also:
http://www.adambrodsky.com
http://www.fiftyinfifty.com
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