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Flanfire (Duggan Flanakin) is bringing LIFE to Austin music -- and telling the world how sweet it is!
Saturday, August 19, 2006
At Love on the Lawn Friday: Ginger Leigh; Suzanna Choffel with John Thomasson (& El Goins)
VOTE FOR PATRICE PIKE!!!!
Tuesday, 9:00 pm (NOT 8:00!)
Rockstar:Supernova!!!!!!!!!!
Austin's own Patrice Pike is in the FINAL SEVEN as she vies to front the new band that includes drummer Tommy Lee, guitarist Gilby Clarke, and bassist Jason Neusted -- and all of us with AUSTIN PRIDE want her to continue all the way to the end of this competition -- after all, the Tommyhawk himself last week acknowledged that Patrice has the goods to front their band. Last night, I stopped by LOVE on the Lawn and the lovely and talented Ginger Leigh was excited to tell me that Patrice's longtime guitarist, Wayne Sutton, Ginger and her partner, and a few other Austinites were flying out to Los Angeles to attend the taping (on Sunday) for the Tuesday night program -- which airs this week an hour later than has been the case. Let's give little Patrice a BIG BOOST on Tuesday by trekking over to www.rockstar.msn.com and voting for Patrice a dozen dozen times apiece ... no more "bottom three" for our good friend. [MORE on the Love show later on.]
Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies Benefit!!!
Nutty Brown Cafe, Sunday 5-10 pm
Music by the Grass Onion Band and JABARVY!!!
The Nutty Brown has become a major benefit sponsor - this week the money goes to fund an education program at OBGYN offices throughout the Austin area about the benefits to moms and their babies of breast feeding. For a recommended five dollar donation, you get to sit out under the oaks, chow down on some great Nutty Brown food (costs extra, of course), and listen to the bluegrass sounds of the Grass Onion Band and the horns and twin lead guitars of the highly recommended (by flanfire, at least) Jabarvy. Best of all, you get to help a great little all-volunteer nonprofit -- the Central Texas Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition (www.hmhbcentx.org) .
Back to LOVE on the Lawn!
Ginger Leigh has long been a favorite of this writer -- as much for her hard work for the community as for her sassy vocals and ebullient spirit onstage (back to the Ginger and Sarah Band days, at least). On Friday Ginger was playing solo - with super assistance from Marie Leal on drumbox (or whatever they call it). But I was really at the show to catch the Suzanna Choffel trio -- on a tip from the handsome El Goins, half of Suzanna's rhythm section that also includes bassist (standup here) John Thomasson -- indeed, they had been the rhythm section for Wendy Colonna the night before.
Suzanna is a native Austinite who played at the Saxon and Broken Spoke as a young teenager (Red-Headed Step Child), gigged with the Humblebums during college in San Marcos, then got a little more serious about her music and completed her formal education at the College of Santa Fe before moving back home. She's already got a new CD in the can ("Shudders and Rings," due out next month or so), but her current sound is a little different than what is on the recording.
My pal El has finally got a band worthy of his amazing talent! Half the bands in which I have seen him play he is so musically bored he is working out arrangements for another project while hitting the sticks (not that these are not good bands - just musically easier), but here he is focused -- and he has to be, because Thomasson is blowing away the crowd with some amazing notes and phrases on this big standup bass that Suzanna does not need a lead guitar and instead picks out her unique rhythms and stays out of the way.
I feel somewhat as though I am in Paris - or perhaps Tuscany (since it's Ginger as well) - and in a cabaret with Edith Piaf or someone intricate and precise, where every word matters and every note is a Zen fest. Two new songs (not on the unlreased CD) -- "Inch" and "Stumble" - the latter includes a line, "Isn't it grace that we get to begin all over again" [after stumbling time after time]. Somewhere in the lyrics to "First Breath" (which speaks of the beginning of life) is the title of the recording (so listen carefully or cheat and find the printed lyrics later on).
The wind was blowing outside at Love, and Suzanna started the set with her hair blowing in the breeze and wiggling a little here and there (reminding me a little of the young Natalie Merchant in a way), but it was getting in the way of her guitar strings and she put it up. No matter -- she still swayed and drew us into her world. The popular "Hey Mister" (check out her myspace page for a downloadable version) is all about how mere physical attraction ("now I know what fingertips are good for") is not enough for a relationship ("I don't need your dirty dishes in my kitchen sink"). Sadly, I had to leave while the band was still mesmerizing the crowd, yet though her regular gig here is at midnight on Wednesdays at Momo's, I am certain I will be hearing more of this muse. Maybe at the Y Bar & Grill on September 15!
