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Pert Near Sandstone
Also Playing: The Henhouse Prowlers
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Jenn Baechle
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David Ellis
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Fri Nov 13
9:30 pm
Pert Near Sandstone and The Henhouse Prowlers at High Noon Saloon
Making traditional bluegrass in this day and age might strike some as the musical equivalent of posing for an old-timey sepia photograph, but Pert Near Standstone is one of the reasons the Midwestern bluegrass revival make sense in the present tense. Hard as the Minnesota band tries to sound and look old-fashioned, the playing usually stings like a late-fall breeze off Lake Superior. Banjo, acoustic guitar, fiddle, and stand-up bass interlock so busily and brightly on the new album Out On A Spree that there almost isn't time to bask in the four-piece's vocal harmonies. PNS matches well on this bill with Chicago's Henhouse Prowlers, who play a tad less aggressively but to equally invigorating effect.
High Noon Saloon 701 E. Washington Ave., Madison, WI
Making traditional bluegrass in this day and age might strike some as the musical equivalent of posing for an old-timey sepia photograph, but Pert Near Standstone is one of the reasons the Midwestern bluegrass revival make sense in the present tense. Hard as the Minnesota band tries to sound and look old-fashioned, the playing usually stings like a late-fall breeze off Lake Superior. Banjo, acoustic guitar, fiddle, and stand-up bass interlock so busily and brightly on the new album Out On A Spree that there almost isn't time to bask in the four-piece's vocal harmonies. PNS matches well on this bill with Chicago's Henhouse Prowlers, who play a tad less aggressively but to equally invigorating effect.
Updated 11/10/2011
