Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins @ Ballroom

Jenny Lewis, front-woman of Los Angeles band Rilo Kiley and all ‘round indie-darling goes solo for Ballroom Marfa performing material from her debut album, Rabbit Fur Coat. Gracing the Goode Crowley stage supported by Louisville sirens The Watson Twins, expect an evening of white soul and vintage folk with lyric-writing Elvis Costello declares the best he’s heard in many a day. Opening the show are Okkervil River lead singer Will Sheff as well as San Francisco based duo, The Blow.

"A gifted lyricist, Jenny Lewis is also a very fine singer, landing on each note with just the right touch. She can belt it out with a soulful, Neko Case-like clarion call ("Big Guns"), put on a Lucinda Williams drawl ("Rise up with Fists!"), or purr like Margot Timmins ("Happy"). The musical stylings of all of these talented ladies echo throughout the accompaniment on Rabbit Fur Coat, but Lewis takes these elements back to their roots. Without copping a retro sound, Jenny has tapped into a fifty-year-old Americana, finding that sweet spot at the birth of rock ‘n’ roll when folk, country, gospel and vocal pop were all melding together, but before the increasingly heavy backbeat of rock displaced the lilting shuffle of Sun Studios-era rockabilly. " Michael Keefe, Popmatters

Thursday October 26, 2006
Performing live at the Goode Crowley Theatre
8pm, doors at 7.30pm
Tickets $15 On Sale Now