event Red Stick Ramblers
Also Playing: Mar Caribe
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David McClister
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Sat Feb 27
8 pm
Red Stick Ramblers and Mar Caribe at Evanston SPACE
Smiling, suit-clad, old-timey Americana bands rarely venture into such satisfying blends as Red Stick Ramblers’ self-described “Cajun gypsy swing.” Though the Louisiana group occasionally writes songs in French and loves to cover old-school Cajun tunes, it has much more than authenticity going for it. Prickly jazz-guitar leads and dual fiddles bring out sweetness, freedom, and warmth that make it impossible to confuse RSR’s work for a dry exercise in musical anthropology.
Evanston SPACE 1245 Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL
Smiling, suit-clad, old-timey Americana bands rarely venture into such satisfying blends as Red Stick Ramblers’ self-described “Cajun gypsy swing.” Though the Louisiana group occasionally writes songs in French and loves to cover old-school Cajun tunes, it has much more than authenticity going for it. Prickly jazz-guitar leads and dual fiddles bring out sweetness, freedom, and warmth that make it impossible to confuse RSR’s work for a dry exercise in musical anthropology.
Updated 02/18/2010
