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Sam Llanas (formerly of The BoDeans) w/ The Goldblooms & Half Past 6
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- *Sam Llanas will play in the middle slot*
Doors 8pm
Music 8:15pm
Tickets $12 in advance / $15 day of show
Sam Llanas (pronounced yanas), formerly of the BoDeans, takes listeners deep into the night on his new release, 4 A.M., released Oct. 25 on Inner Knot Records.
The intimate, mostly acoustic collection, produced by longtime
collaborator Gary Tanin, features 10 new Llanas originals and a dazzling cover of Cyndi Lauper’s hit “All Through the Night.” Llanas says of his latest work, “I do a lot of work late at night. It’s a night record, a nocturnal record, thematically about things that happen in the night. That covers a lot of ground. It could be the simple things — being in love, being with somebody — or about the loneliness that the night can bring.” The album is markedly different from Llanas’ 1998 solo bow A Good Day to Die, which was a powerful eulogy for Llanas’s brother recorded under the group rubric Absinthe. “The Absinthe record was kind of bombastic and very intense,” Llanas says. “I wanted to do something that was lighter, as light as I can get. I wanted it to be completely different. That’s why 4 A.M. is pretty much an acoustic record.”
Work on 4 A.M. began nearly four years ago. He recalls, “I had time on my hands, and I had some songs I wanted to record. I started working with Terry Vittone — I just said, ‘Hey, let’s make some recordings.’ There was no real thought that it was going to be an album or anything like that. It just sort of escalated from there.”
With the majority of the material in the can, a protracted layoff from recording ensued. After almost two years, Llanas began completing 4 A.M. at Daystorm Music in Milwaukee with producer-musician Tanin, who had also worked on A Good Day To Die and supplied the strings on the new recording.
Llanas decided to preserve the original recording’s spare quality, and added a couple of new tracks that were left untouched. “I wanted to keep it simple. ‘The Way Home’ and ‘Janey’ seemed to work really well just the way they were.”
However, he adds, “I thought the other songs needed a bit more dressing up. Some I thought would work better if we put a little bit more on them.” Thus, keyboardist Bukka Allen was called in to play accordion, while Milwaukee musicians Matt Turner and Ryan Schiedermayer contributed bass and percussion, respectively.
Sam Llanas Official Site
The Goldblooms Official Site
Tickets can be purchased through Ticketmaster.com or by calling 1-800-745-3000. You can also purchase tickets in person at the Fine Line box office M-F between the hours of 11am and 11pm, or at the Electric Fetus.
**X-GOLD TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR THIS SHOW. GENERAL ADMISSION TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE. Extra Gold dinner/beverage package seating is reserved seating along the rail in the mezzanine and at the rear of the main floor.Extra Gold seating is an extra $60.00 per mezzanine ticket or $30.00 per main floor ticket, and the $60.00 or $30.00 can be applied to anything on the menu except tax or gratuity. Tables hold four people. Please note that you may be seated with other people at your table if you do not purchase all the seats at your table. CALL (612) 338-8100 BETWEEN 11am & 5pm FOR MORE INFORMATION & AVAILABILITY. TICKETS ARE LIMITED.
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