Shanghai Twang: Country music in the big city
Y’all come now, ya hear?
When you get an email from someone you don’t know telling you to go to a bar you’ve never heard of so you can hear a band “practice,” usually it’s a good idea to deposit that email into the trash. But something about this particular email grabbed me. Maybe it was the fact that it began not with Dear or Hello or Hi, but Y’all come!! Maybe it was the band’s name — the Shanghai Cowboys — and the promise of passable country music … in Shanghai. But likely it was the paragraph’s closing sentence that prompted me to head on over to a place called The Literature Club last night:
“Please pass the word and bring along some of your shit-kicking friends.”
12.11.2004, 7:21 PM · Music · Comments (5)