MUSIC | PSYCHEDELIC
SATURDAY APRIL 20
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An Evening with
Mary Chapin Carpenter & Shawn Colvin (Singer Songwriters)
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Don Williams
(Classic Country)
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Jonny Lang (Blues Guitar)
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(New Age Flamenco)
(Instrumental Acoustic Guitar)
Ottmar Liebert
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feeling. Sound has always been more of a direct line of what you feel and what you emote. Jackson believes bands can undervalue their own sound with a frontman or singer. And with instrumental music, the listener engages more deeply with what they’re hearing. “I like instrumental music. Always — as a kid, I always liked the instrumental songs the best,” she says. “It takes a really special lyricist for me to be really moved by what they say ... I think a lot of people want to be told what to think and what the song is about.” And she says the act of making instrumental music with other musicians is immensely gratifying. “It’s really great to do that with other people — to put your heads together in a way,” Jackson says. “You’re making sounds for each other and you’re reacting to each others’ sounds. It is another language.” As the trio (completed by ex-SubArachnoid Space drummer Christopher Van Huffel) plays — Jackson and Westeiner often onstage in dour white frocks reminiscent of pioneer women, their faces stone-like as they perform — she says it’s as if they’re meditating. Together they’re focused in an “altered state of concentration.” Each song across The Captain’s Daughter isn’t just instrumental for instrumental’s sake, but serves as a soundtrack to a greater emotion or theme. For the band to sing along to it would be disingenuous, Jackson says. And “you can’t fool yourself with a sound.” n leahs@inlander.com Eight Bells with SubRosa, A God or An Other, Garlands, Ian Miles and Chris Sceaga • Sun, April 21, at 8 pm • Carr’s Corner • 230 S. Washington St. • $6 • 21+ • 474-1731