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JON KOWNACKI
MUSIC NEWS AND GOSSIP
A Small Circle of Friends: Adam Klein has a
new group of players with him, and the pack
age is named Adam Klein & the Wild Fires.
You can catch them this Thursday, Sept. 22
at the Melting Point. Little Country Giants
round out the bill. The Wild Fires, who couldn't
have picked a timelier name, is comprised of
Steve Abercrombie (Blueground Undergrass,
The Nice Machine), Bronson Tew (the engineer
with Record-O-Van) and Chris Cason (Kaitlin
Jones & the County Fair). For this show at
least, A.J. Adams will join the group on pedal
steel. In other news, Klein and Justin Evans
will travel out to San Francisco to play the
Super Bluegrass Weekend, which is the "offi
cial unofficial" after party for that city's Hardly
Strictly Bluegrass Festival. For more informa
tion, please see www.adam-klein.com.
Exile on Broad Street: Speaking of the afore
mentioned Record-O-Van, have you checked
out what this guy does? He's got a fully func
tional, professional mobile unit installed
inside a 1994 Ford van and can record pretty
much anywhere he can run an electrical snake.
It sounds gimmicky, but it's really not. This
setup allows for bands to play their music
in their chosen space (practice room, living
room, shoebox, etc.) while engineer Bronson
Tew is in a separate structure outside the
building getting it all with zero bleed and
minimal ear fatigue. You'd do good to learn
more over at www.facebook.com/recordovan
and www.record-o-van.tumblr.com.
A The Green, Green Grass of Home: The 27th
annual North Georgia Folk Festival will hap
pen Saturday, Sept. 24 at Sandy Creek Park.
The gates open at 10:30 a.m., and the morn
ing activities will begin at 11:30 a.m. with
a set by Noogeez, which is basically Squalls
playing kids music. The day-long event lasts
until 9 p.m. and will feature sets by musical
performers Moira Nelligan & the Dixie Jigs,
Klezmer Local 42, The Darnell Boys, Bill
Ashley & the Kitchen Pickers, Ed Teague &
Friends and acoustic sets by Cosmic Charlie,
The Georgia Mudcats and the Tony Bryant
Blues Band. There's more than music at the
festival, though, and it's dedicated to pre
serving the unique folk culture of Northeast
Georgia. To that end, the presenters. The
Athens Folk Music & Dance Society, will
host several craft demonstrations on arts such
as broom-making, blacksmithing, quilting,
basket-making and more. This is one of my
favorite annual events in Athens. There's a
$2 charge per person (ages 4-64) to enter the
park, and the festival will cost $10 for adults,
$5 for students, and kids under 12 are free.
There is a pre-festival contra dance and acous
tic jam the night before (Friday, Sept. 23) at
Memorial Park from 7:30-11 p.m. Information
concerning that and the full schedule of
music, workshops and other festival happen
ings can be found at www.athensfolk.org.
Komplete Kontrol: I want to give a hearty
Athens welcome to the new-to-town hard
core lords Vinyl Rites. The label and record
store recently relocated from Gainesville, FL
and set up shop inside the Southern Vision
Thrift Market at 766 W. Broad Street (across
from Vision Video). The shop sells new and
used vinyl and cassettes, and the label has
distinguished itself with small-run vinyl and
cassette pressings of records by notable bands
American Cheeseburger, Bukkake Boys,
Diet Cokeheads, Hellkontrol, Witches and
Religious as Fuck. In the physical world, the
store plans to maintain the ambitious hours of
noon-8 p.m., seven days a week. Visit them
online, too, at www.vinylrites.net.
Buy One, Buy All: Nurp's Space will host its
"Rewired" used gear sale Saturday, Sept. 24 at
OK Coffee. The blink-
and-you'll-miss-it loca
tion is on the corner
of Clayton and College
downtown. The event
runs from noon until
4 p.m., and, if past
events are any indica
tion, there are going
to be lots of great
deals on used musical
equipment. Coordinator
Matt Hudgins has
specifically mentioned
"a dozen electric gui
tars and basses, lots
of amps, keys, effects
processors, drums and
drum accessories," so
that should whet your whistle. For more infor
mation, please see www.nuci.org.
Like Caine in Kung Fu: Mux Blank has decided
to walk the Earth. OK, drive the Earth. He's
undertaken what he describes as a "never-
ending tour" (which, for him, is also sort of a
spiritual journey) dubbed Mr. Blank's Weird &
Wandering Sideshow which is an abbreviated
version of his long-running Carnivale of Black
Hearts. Currently, he has dates booked through
the end of October. So far, the sideshow is
just Mux and troupe member "Needless the
Clown," but it could conceivably be Mux and
any member of the Carnivale who can travel.
Significantly, Mux and Mr. Needless are arriv
ing in each city at least a day in advance,
playing on the street and generating interest
in their show before the actual thing happens.
It's easier to do this as a pair and not a
whole troupe. They're traveling in a converted
bus (dubbed "The Lyme Basturd") that will
serve as home on the road, and Blank is docu
menting everything via his blog with plans to
start filming life on the road soon. If this is
the type of thing you can get behind, Mux and
crew would really love it if you threw a bit of
cash their way via the PayPal donation button
over at www.mrblankisdead.com, where you'll
also find a promo video and full tour schedule.
You can keep up with his adventures over at
www.muxproductions.com.
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