Sam Llanas (formerly of the Bodeans)
with The Goldblooms, Half Past 6

Saturday, February 4th

Doors 8pm  |  Music 9pm  |  $12 in advance  |  $15 day of show

Note: Performances from first to last are The Goldblooms, Sam Llanas, Half Past 6. 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.”