For everyone who just said, "who?", I'll offer this summary: The thing that makes Chandler Travis one of the archetypal showmen and performers of our age is not only his outlandish, swaggering humor. That's the hook, I think… that's what people mention and remember, the hysterically funny, outrageous wisecracks. What really ropes you in is the awesomely courageous and gentle way he explores human emotion. All his many love songs are at the heart of it all meditations on this theme-- not sentimental wishy-washy fantasies of imaginary happiness, but site specific stories of two way streets, cul-de-sacs, and dead ends. It's honest in confronting the tragic aspects, as well as the delirious joys, of falling in, out of, and sideways in love.
Here he brings his quartet, naturally named Three-0, to Saratoga Springs NY legendary Caffe Lena last Friday night. Opener was the master of solo electric guitar and sheer stream-of-consciousness poetic intensity Pete LaBonne.
P.S. (Despite multi-tracking everything very extensively, I STILL mixed in just a smidgen of the onboard camera's mic sound-- alone, this audio generally is way too thin for prime time, but the barest bouquet of it-- it's often just the thing to sharpen the focus... )
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P.S. (Despite multi-tracking everything very extensively, I STILL mixed in just a smidgen of the onboard camera's mic sound-- alone, this audio generally is way too thin for prime time, but the barest bouquet of it-- it's often just the thing to sharpen the focus... )
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