event Pamela Means
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Thu Feb 14
9 pm
Pamela Means at Linneman's
Pamela Means juggles both unabashedly outraged, subtly layered acoustic folk and excursions into jazz, so her first release with the Pamela Means Jazz Project occupied the long gap between 2003's Single Bullet Theory and 2009's album of original songs, Precedent. As if admitting that she has plenty of strife to catch up on, she begins with a song simply titled "New Orleans," and, as always, frequently reminds listeners that being stuck alone with an acoustic guitar is an opportunity for everything from playful rags ("Amsterdam") to elegant, percussive ripples of melody and harmonics ("Virago Plains"). Means isn't easy to peg as simply a lefty songwriter: She brings a reflective heft to all her tunes, polemical or otherwise.
Linneman's 1001 E Locust St, Milwaukee, WI
Pamela Means juggles both unabashedly outraged, subtly layered acoustic folk and excursions into jazz, so her first release with the Pamela Means Jazz Project occupied the long gap between 2003's Single Bullet Theory and 2009's album of original songs, Precedent. As if admitting that she has plenty of strife to catch up on, she begins with a song simply titled "New Orleans," and, as always, frequently reminds listeners that being stuck alone with an acoustic guitar is an opportunity for everything from playful rags ("Amsterdam") to elegant, percussive ripples of melody and harmonics ("Virago Plains"). Means isn't easy to peg as simply a lefty songwriter: She brings a reflective heft to all her tunes, polemical or otherwise.
Updated 02/04/2013
