event Roe Family Singers
Also Playing: Men With Hollow Bodies
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Karl Raschke
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Sun Nov 15
9 pm,
Roe Family Singers and Men With Hollow Bodies at Turf Club
Quillan Roe first made his name in the Twin Cities music scene in the mid-’90s as lead singer of Accident Clearinghouse, a group that played straight-up old-school country music long before it was safe to take the prefix “alt” off the genre and explore traditional sounds again. These days, he fronts Roe Family Singers with his wife Kim, playing every Monday at the 331 Club. The Singers deal in backwoods-style country on banjo, autoharp, and saw that’s both invitingly sweet and a bit eerie—the more so when their excellent disc The Earth And All That Is In It explores topics like cocaine addiction and being torn apart by starving wolves. Fans of The Handsome Family should take note.
Turf Club 1601 University Ave. W., Twin Cities, MN
Quillan Roe first made his name in the Twin Cities music scene in the mid-’90s as lead singer of Accident Clearinghouse, a group that played straight-up old-school country music long before it was safe to take the prefix “alt” off the genre and explore traditional sounds again. These days, he fronts Roe Family Singers with his wife Kim, playing every Monday at the 331 Club. The Singers deal in backwoods-style country on banjo, autoharp, and saw that’s both invitingly sweet and a bit eerie—the more so when their excellent disc The Earth And All That Is In It explores topics like cocaine addiction and being torn apart by starving wolves. Fans of The Handsome Family should take note.
Updated 10/28/2009
