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VOL. 26 #12
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MARGARET ALBUM/BOOK RELEASE WITH CHICKEN JOHN RINALDI A scrapbook found in a San Francisco dumpster inspires new music and stories by Jason Webley, Chicken John Rinaldi, Eliza Rickman, Shenandoah Davis, Led to Sea, Lonesome Leash, and special guests. On Friday, December 19, the Community Center for the Performing Arts and KRVM proudly welcome Jason Webley & Friends Book/Album Release Show for Margaret. Twenty years ago, San Francisco showman Chicken John Rinaldi found an old scrapbook lying at the bottom of a dumpster. The book documented the life and death of a woman named Margaret Rucker, born in 1907. Chicken John was captivated by this mysterious woman and her tragic story, captured in sepia images and dark poetry. Over the years, he introduced
State. This December to celebrate the release of Margaret, Webley, Rinaldi and the others are getting together to perform these songs together for the last time. They are taking the show on a short tour retracing Margaret’s life from Washington State to California. The concerts feature performances by Webley, Rinaldi, Eliza Rickman,
Shenandoah Davis, Led to Sea, Lonesome Leash, and special guests in each city. The Margaret album is a fulllength CD housed in a 90-page hardcover book. It features music by Jason Webley, Led to Sea, Jherek Bischoff, Eliza Rickman, Shenandoah Davis, Lonesome Leash, Zac Pennington and Mts & Tunnels, as well as writings by
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Chicken John Rinaldi and Webley. You can pre-order it for $25 (plus shipping) at jasonwebley. com. The tour begins on Margaret Rucker’s birthday and comes to WOW Hall in Eugene on Friday, December 19th. Tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at the door. Doors open at 8:00 pm and showtime is 9:00. H
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Margaret to hundreds of people, but last year when he showed the scrapbook to accordion troubadour Jason Webley, he learned a bit more about who this woman was. Not only was she born in Webley’s home town of Everett, Washington - she was the daughter of one of the town’s founders, and is buried in the enigmatic pyramid that sits above the town. Fueled by interest in the local community, Webley and Rinaldi held a special event in Everett this past April. They assembled some of the best songwriters in the country to write new works inspired by Margaret Rucker’s life and writings. The response to that concert was overwhelming, and a Kickstarter campaign to record this material raised more than six times its initial goal, making it the second largest crowd-sourced music project to come out of Washington
JOHNNY MARR By Sean Cummins On Thursday, December 11, Double Tee and Dead Nation present Johnny Marr (of The Smiths) with special guests Hooded Fang. The Smiths. The Pretenders. The The. Electronic. The Healers. Worlds Collide. Modest Mouse. The Cribs. Eight seminal bands, one man in common: Johnny Marr. Emerging from the aftermath of punk and post-punk, in 1982, an 18-year-old Marr tracked down a poet by the name of Steven Morrissey, and together they invented indie rock by founding The Smiths. By the age of 23, The Smiths were disbanded, and Marr had cemented his position as a rock and pop guitar legend. Drawing inspiration from artists as diverse as Johnny Cash, Iggy and the Stooges, the Animals, and Dusty Springfield, Marr has lent his guitarwork to an impressive list of bands over the last 27 years, both as a member and as a guest contributor. Fast forward to today, and we find Marr continuing to broaden his horizons – you can find his work on the soundtracks to both Inception and The Amazing Spiderman 2, and, in 2013, he launched his solo career with his debut release, The Messenger. Currently on a world tour in support of his second solo album, Playland, Marr will be performing at the WOW Hall on November 11th. Joining Marr for this leg of the U.S. tour are guests Hooded Fang, a Canadian indie band with a big, melody-driven sound, full of fuzzed out guitars, surf rhythms, pop vocals, and reverb. Tickets are $20 in advance. Doors open at 7:00 pm and showtime is 8:00. H