JBM Promotions & Memorial Hall present
Nick Lowe's Quality Rock & Rock Revue starring Los Straitjackets with Tommy McLain & CC Adcock
$28.00 - $50.00
Nick Lowe
Nick Lowe has made his mark as a producer (Elvis Costello-GrahamParker-Pretenders-The Damned), songwriter of at least three songs you know byheart,short-lived career as a pop star, and a lengthy term as a musicians’musician. But in his current ‘second act’ as a silver-haired, tender-heartedbut sharp-tonguedsinger-songwriter, he has no equal.Starting with 1995′s ‘The ImpossibleBird’ through to 2011′s ‘The Old Magic,’Nick has turned out a fantastic string of albums, each one devised in his WestLondon home, and recorded with a core of musicians who possess the same veteransavvy. Lowe brings wit and understated excellence to every performance,leadingBen Ratliff of the New York Times to describe his live show as “elegant andnearly devastating.”His new 4 song EP “Tokyo Bay” features Los Straitjackets as his backing band.
Los Straitjackets
Los Straitjackets are the leading practitioners of the lost art of the guitarinstrumental. Using the music of the Ventures, The Shadows, and with Link WrayandDick Dale as a jumping off point, the band has taken their unique, highenergy brand of original rock & roll around the world. Clad in their trademarkLucha LibreMexican wrestling masks, the “Jackets” have delivered theirtrademark guitarlicks to 16 albums, thousands of concerts and dozens of filmsand TV shows.Their most recent album “What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace Love & Los Straitjackets consists of instrumental covers of Nick Lowe songs.
Nick Lowe has made his mark as a producer (Elvis Costello-GrahamParker-Pretenders-The Damned), songwriter of at least three songs you know byheart,short-lived career as a pop star, and a lengthy term as a musicians’musician. But in his current ‘second act’ as a silver-haired, tender-heartedbut sharp-tonguedsinger-songwriter, he has no equal.Starting with 1995′s ‘The ImpossibleBird’ through to 2011′s ‘The Old Magic,’Nick has turned out a fantastic string of albums, each one devised in his WestLondon home, and recorded with a core of musicians who possess the same veteransavvy. Lowe brings wit and understated excellence to every performance,leadingBen Ratliff of the New York Times to describe his live show as “elegant andnearly devastating.”His new 4 song EP “Tokyo Bay” features Los Straitjackets as his backing band.
Los Straitjackets
Los Straitjackets are the leading practitioners of the lost art of the guitarinstrumental. Using the music of the Ventures, The Shadows, and with Link WrayandDick Dale as a jumping off point, the band has taken their unique, highenergy brand of original rock & roll around the world. Clad in their trademarkLucha LibreMexican wrestling masks, the “Jackets” have delivered theirtrademark guitarlicks to 16 albums, thousands of concerts and dozens of filmsand TV shows.Their most recent album “What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace Love & Los Straitjackets consists of instrumental covers of Nick Lowe songs.
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