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Thursday, October 21, aoio | The Red & Black
MUSIC NOTES
The Red & Black’s guide to music in and around Athens from Oct. 21 ■ Oct. 27.
Spirit of the South:
The Burning Angels
It’s going to be a pretty great
week for Southern music in
Athens, from blues to folk and
beyond The Burning Angels will
embody that Southern spirit, at
the same time as distinct as an
Allman Brothers guitar solo and
as diverse as brands of barbeque
sauce produced from Texas to
South Carolina.
“We like to call it Americana
soul," said Mark Cunningham,
lead vocalist/guitar player of The
Burning Angels and an Athens
native. “But we also like to keep it
so it’s kind of indescribable on a
lot of stuff.'
The band is a five-piece -
two guitars, bass, drums and vio
lin -and for the past year has
kept a steady schedule of shows
pumped up with a very Athenian
variety of rockin’ folk.
Cunningham, who was raised
in Athens in the 70s and 'Bos,
saw the rise of bands such as
R.E.M.. Pylon and the Flat Duo
Jets in their prime, and paired his
appreciation for the new indie
vibe with his love of songwriters
like Johnny Cash and Gram
Parsons. From this, his song writ
ing style was bom. and he has
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performed in various acts around
town since then.
“You know, I've been writing
songs forever and playing in
bands for a long time - [songs]
just come to me,” Cunningham
said. The meter and the melody,
I like to just kinda pair it to how
I’m feeling.'
Rounding out Cunningham’s
emotionally-loaded but cerebrally
balanced vocalizing is Natalie
Garcia, who harmonizes in that
oh-so-sweet Southern way (defi
nitely some June Carter/Johnny
Cash dynamic there).
Garcia matches
Cunningham's mistiness with
beauty, and the songs have a
familiarity that anyone who's ever
had a glass of sweet tea on a
front porch will recognize.
Cunningham promises the
band doesn't just sit and strum as
folk musicians are sometimes
wont to do.
“It's energetic," he said. 'We
get at it pretty hard. We like to hit
people hard cornin’ out of the
gate, take 'em up then take 'em
down with our mellow stuff, then
take 'em back up and then end
the show"
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Occasional specials guests for
a little onstage reinterpretation is
not unheard of either, and The
Burning Angels travel in some
pretty well-renowned circles. They
were in the top two for the
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award last year, and have played
shows >ith local favorites like The
Whigs and Drive-By Truckers.
The band’s ddbut album was
also recently recorded by cele
brated local producer John
Keane, and is due out in
THURSDAY
40 Watt
“Floor Show.” 10 p.m., $3
American Cheeseburger
Old-school thrash metal with
new-schod technique
Guzlk
Down-home death metal
Hot Breath
A destructive wave of grungy
punk and thrash metal
The Caledonia Lounge
10 p.m„ ss(2l+), $7 (18-20)
Manray
Math rock whose technique
winds up tight only to explode
with energy.
Ahleochatistas
Drum/guitar experimental punk
freight train
Flicker Theatre ft Bar
9 p.m., $5.
Dodd Ferre! Ie
Folk anthems from longtime
Athenian
FRIDAY
The Caledonia Lounge
10 p.m., ss(2l+), $7 (18+)
Powerload
Locals reproducing AC/DC tunes
for the masses
Pastor of Muppets
Classic Metallica covers and an
awesome band name
The Meltino Point,
10:30 p.m.. S2O
Love and Theft
Nashville based nu-country, soar
ing harmonies singing radio
ready hooks
Farm 255
See “Spirit of the South"
Flicker Theatre A Bar
8:30 p.m„ $5
Hurray for the Riff Raff
Music bom in the hills, raised in
New Orleans' alternative scene
December.
“We been just really hittin’
kinda hard in the music scene in
the last year," Cunningham said,
and it doesn't look like they have
any intention of burning out any
time soon.
Clint Maul
Pumped up a)t-Amencana rock
big on soul
Timber
Country rock straight from the
barstooi
New Earth Music Hall
9 p.m.
Ample Mammet/Pofleh
Ambassador
A man and his mixer, a West
Coast love story of electronic
beats and insane sample skills
Sarkatraa
Three locals play live electrons
- half-man. half-machine
Flight Risk
Mellow dub electronica. a musical
robo-trip
The Melting Point
9 p.m„ sls adv., S2O at door
Donna the Buffalo
Folk rock ranging from countrified
to funkadeke, from New York
Samuel Doores and the
Tumbleweeds
Soulful acoustic tunes rattling in
an empty train car headed South
Sea of Dogs
Local ladies playing ghostly, old
time folk with modern songwriting
sensibility
CiNi BarCafS
10 p.m., $5
Incatepec
Traditional Latin American instru
mentation and songs, plus a little
saxophone for good measure
Los Meesflts
Misfits songs, in Spanish, with
salsa rhythms. Really.
Los Pleneros
Puerto Rican traditional plena
music
Go Bar
10 p.m., $5
The Fact
Local punk with Latino back
ground
Reeks of Failure
80s-style, lync-barking, pound
ing, full-bore punk
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Farm 255
Friday, 11 p.m.
Free
Farm 255
10:30 p.m., free
Ruby Kendrick
Singer/songwriter specializing in
catchy, quirky acoustic pop
Delicate Cutters
Woefully hopeful folk with an off
beat approach to the genre
Little Kinqs Shuffle
Club
9 p.m„ $5
Thrift Store Cowboys
Rootsy, gothic, Texas ait-country
Lera Lynn
Soulfully Southern tunes with
haunted hymn vocals
These United States
Alt-rock pairing dark twang and
inventive song-writing style
Nowhere Bar
10 p.m., $2
Jazz Chronic
A funk body with a jazz mind and
a rock soul
Immuzikation
Talented sampling DJ known for
his dance-party-inducing skills
Hendershot’s Coffee
Bar
8 p.m., free
Efren
Hushed but heavy folk not afraid
to be dark and mysterious
Terrapin Beer Cos.
9 p.m., S2O adv.
David Barbe and the Quick
Hooks
Athens music vets playing
Southern-tinged rock from
anthems to lullabies
Kuroma
Pop rock that shimmers and
buzzes under soothing melodies
The Globe
10 p.m., free
Jeremy Roberts Quartet
Locals performing jazz of every
shape and size
New Earth Music Hall
See “Pump up the Jam”