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Headless Household
vs.
Lucinda Lane
Mercury Lounge, on the Hollister, Old Town Goleta, Friday, August 2,
2019, 8 p.m.
Headless Household celebrates the 25th anniversary of its pivotal
album Inside/Outside USA at SOhO,
Wednesday, March 20
What:
Headless
Household,
toasting the 25th birthday of
Inside/Outside USA
When:
Wednesday, March 20, 2019, at 7:30 p.m.
Where:
SOhO,
1221 State St., Santa Barbara (upstairs)
Cost:
$10
Info:
(805) 962-7776,
www.sohosb.com,
www.householdink.com/headless.htm
Who:
Dick Dunlap,
piano; Tom Lackner, drums; Joe Woodard, guitar; Tom Buckner, tenor sax;
Nicole Lvoff, vocals; and Randy Tico, bass (and guests tba).
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Headless Household returns to SOhO, Wednesday, January 11, for a trip through its pile
of years and albums, through the latest,
Balladismo
What:
Headless Household
When:
Tuesday, January 11, at 7:30 p.m.
Where:
SOhO,
1221 State St., Santa Barbara
Cost:
$10
Info:
(805) 962-7776,
www.sohosb.com
Who:
Dick Dunlap, Tom Lackner, Joe Woodard, Chris Symer, David Binney, Tom Buckner, Nicole Lvoff, Tom Ball … and ?
Headless
Household, one of Santa Barbara’s strangest and longest-shelf-life bands,
returns to one of its favorite rooms, SOhO, after a couple years’ absence,
on Wednesday, January 11, 2017. They are armed with new attitude and a
new(ish) album, Balladismo--a
"mostly ballads" project, with detours—the incurably eclectic band’s ninth
album in its 33 years on the planet.
In the Headless world, jazz meets rock, funk, country/avant-Americana, torch
songs, experimental ventures and outbursts, and other inklings, and kicks up
some brainy-party dust. Onstage this time: the core unit of Dick Dunlap, Tom
Lackner, Joe Woodard and Chris Symer (coming down especially for the gig,
from his current homestead in Seattle), ace tenor saxist Tom Buckner, lovely
new Headless vocalist Nicole Lvoff and harmonica master Tom Ball. As a
special guest, NYC-based alto sax master David Binney, who has graced
several Household albums over the years, makes his first live appearance
with the band.
Familiar faces and voices appear on
Balladismo, released in August of
2015. The guest list includes Buckner and Binney, trumpeter/vocalist Nate
Birkey, guest vocalists Glen Phillips and Julie Christensen, bassist David
Piltch, violinist Sally Barr, pedal steel man Bill Flores, and a new member
of the Household family, the wonderful and flexible singer Lvoff (who will
be at SOhO).
The SOhO show will include doses of
Balladismo chapter, as well as songs and sidelines into the ongoing
Headless Household discography, all
on the in-house Household Ink Records label: Headless Household
(1987), Inside/Outside USA
(1993), ITEMS (1995),
Free Associations (1999),
mockhausen (2000),
post-Polka (2003),
Blur Joan (2005),
Basemento (2010),
Balladism (2015). The wayward
adventure continues, heeding the headless impulse.
Next up, it’s rumored that, for its tenth record, the band is working on a
blues album—hints of which will spill into its SOhO set. Well… blues, of a
sort. The Headless sort.
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HI@25
(and counting)
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Headless Household pays tribute to friend and ally Kenny Edwards with
"Remembering Kenny," featuring the band, and guest singer-songwriters
Monday, March 21, at SOhO
What:
Headless Household, "Remembering Kenny," with guest singer-songwriters
When:
Monday, March 21, 7:30 p.m.
Where:
SOhO,
1221 State St. Santa Barbara CA
Cost:
$10
Information:
(805)-962-7776,
www.sohosb.com
Who:
Dick Dunlap, Tom Lackner, Joe Woodard, Julie Christensen, Tom Buckner, Jim
Connolly, Sally Barr, Bill Flores, Tom Ball
and ? Guest singers include Rebecca
Troon, Natalie D-Napoloen, ,
and more�
(photo: Paul Wellman)
Members
of the eclectic group Headless Household were among the many shocked and
saddened by the passing of the wonderful musician Kenny Edwards last September.
There was a highly personal connection in that Edwards had recorded and
performed with the band for seven years, always game to join in the band�s
style-hopping antics and enriching the band�s music�especially
the "Americana" chapter of the band's songbook.
In tribute
to Edwards� contribution to the band, and to the music of other artists in his
adopted hometown of Santa Barbara, Headless Household is hosting a tribute
night, Monday, March 21 at SOhO. �Remembering Kenny� will feature a set of its
own music which involved Edwards, live and on record (he was involved in the
albums post-Polka,
Blur Joan and
Basemento). An opening set will
feature singers connected with Edwards� work, as producer, guitarist, vocalist,
mandolinist and all-around supportive, spiritually centered and deeply musical
persona.
Edwards, who
moved to Santa Barbara a decade ago and got enmeshed in its musical community
(including with Headless Household) had finally begun recording as a solo artist
in the last chapter of his life, releasing the wonderful albums
Kenny Edwards (2002) and
Resurrection Road (2009). This capped
off a stellar resume including working with Linda Ronstadt, starting with her
earliest public phase in the Stone Poneys, working as an important architect of
the �70s country-rock sound in Los Angeles, and working as accompanist with
longtime ally Karla Bonoff and Wendy Waldman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Edwards
post-Polka
plays
"N�vemberfest"
at Muddy Waters,
Friday, Nov. 26
check
Santa Barbara Independent listing
After
a booking mishap kept the �alt-Oktoberfest� from going down last month, the band post-Polka (a
subsidiary of Headless
Household) is back in Muddy
Waters action, for a special post-Turkey-day �N�vemberfest.� The band kicks
up the polka at Muddy Waters on Friday, November 26. Opening for p-P is
Eliza Rickman.
What: post-Polka (a
subsidiary of Headless Household), post-turkey day �N�vemberfest� show, with
Eliza Rickman
Where: Muddy Waters, 508 E.
Haley St., Santa Barbara
When: Wednesday, November
26, 8:30 p.m.
Tickets: $5 (beer tariff
not included)
On the worldwide interweb:
www.myspace.com/postpolkatheband
www.householdink.com/post-Polka.htm
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Headless Household, featuring Julie
Christensen, plays for the Santa Barbara Jazz Society, at SOhO on Sunday,
Oct. 17, 2010
download
press release
What:
Headless Household, featuring Julie Christensen, for the Santa Barbara Jazz
Society
When:
Sunday, Oct. 17, 1-4 p.m.
Where:
SOhO,
1221 State St. Santa Barbara CA
Cost:
$
Information:
(805)-962-7776,
www.sohosb.com,
www.sbjazz.org
Who:
Dick Dunlap, Tom Lackner, Joe Woodard (pictured), Julie Christensen, Tom
Buckner, Seve Nelson
(photo: Paul Wellman)
Veteran
Santa Barbaran band Headless
Household, featuring vocalist Julie Christensen, will be the special
guest of the Santa Barbara Jazz Society, at SOhO on Sunday, October 17, 1 to
4 p.m.. Infamously eclectic but with strong jazz roots, the band will be
leaning on the jazz side of the by-now hefty Headless songbook, including
original tunes from the latest of its eight albums, the two-disc set called
Basemento, which celebrates the
band's 25th anniversary.
In the band will be core members keyboardist Dick Dunlap, drummer Tom
Lackner, guitarist/composer Joe Woodard, along with longtime ally, tenor
saxist Tom Buckner, bassist Steve Nelson, and Christensen. Christensen, a
renowned solo artist in her own right, has worked with Leonard Cohen, Van
Dyke Parks, and others, and her own discography includes the jazz album
Something Familiar. That album,
as with all Headless Household titles--
Headless Household (1987),
Inside/Outside USA (1993),
ITEMS (1995),
Free Associations (1999),
mockhausen (2000),
post-Polka (2003), and
Blur Joan (2005)--have
been released on the band's independent label, Household Ink Records.
At SOhO, the band will dig into its diverse jazz bag of instrumentals, vocal
tunes, moody ballads, swinging saloon numbers, straight ahead notions and
gently twisted variations on the theme of jazz, America's greatest music.
post-Polka
(a subsidiary of Headless
Household) kicks up the polka in the second degree, at its 2nd
annual "alt-Oktoberfest," at Muddy Waters on Wednesday, October 27, 2010. In
2003, Headless Household released the conceptual polka album
post-Polka. Some loved it. Others
didn't. Others are still snoozing in the jury box. After a couple of
strictly-polka gigs, a resolve was made to create a spinoff band, hereby
dubbed post-Polka.
see press
release
Nate Birkey to perform with his west coast group at SOhO, Wednesday, August 25
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 16
(download WORD file)
Nate
Birkey | Appearing at SOhO | Wednesday, August 25 2010 | 8:00p
Nate Birkey
returns home for a special evening of original and straight-ahead Jazz. Now
based in New York City, the trumpeter, composer and vocalist will perform at SOhO
one night only on Wednesday, Aug.25, 8:00pm - being reunited on stage with his
West Coast quintet of Jamieson Trotter - piano, Jim Connolly - bass, Justin
Claveria - Sax, and Todd Wolf - drums.
Nate is
one of many musicians featured in a new book by Cicily Janus titled The
New Face Of Jazz,
published by Random House Inc.. Released in July 2010, it is an intimate look at
today's living legends and the artists of tomorrow.
Hot
off of a successful East coast tour this summer, and an opening performance for
the famed Jazz chanteuse and pianist Diana Krall last summer at the Santa
Barbara Bowl, Nate will perform music from his latest CD Almost Home (2008)
as well as some new additions to his repertoire. A fluid improviser and vocalist
of understated grace, he brings a quiet yet commanding presence to the stage,
engaging his audience and ushering them into a more romantic time and place.
A Colorado native, Nate currently lives in New York City and has been working
with some of New York's finest musicians, including saxophonists Dave Liebman
and Phil Woods, Cuban drummer Ignacio Berroa, and pianist Gerald Clayton. His
East Coast quintet includes pianist Jim Ridl; saxophonist Sal Giorgianni;
drummer Marko Marcinko; and bassist Tony Marino. With this group, Nate recorded
two albums in 2008 (Almost Home and
Christmas) - and has been building a
loyal following across the United States, Canada and Europe.
Nate's list of albums on the Household Ink label over the years also include
Indelibly You (1999),
The Mennonite (2001), ballads
(2001), and
Shortest Day (2004) - recorded live at SOhO.
Critics have compared Birkey's subtle vocal and trumpet approach to that of Chet
Baker and Miles Davis respectively - a sound poised and assured, powerfully
stark and spare, creating an atmosphere at once solitary and electric. Birkey
shows that his passion and dedication to making music is both endearing and
enduring.
"Too many jazz recordings today reflect attempts to squeeze the last drop of
virtuosity and clever turns of phrase from the proud legacy of the idiom, mixing
it with various flavors of classical and world music. This album is instead
straightforwardly a man's expression of who he is, and that is the true essence
of jazz. Eminently listenable, Almost Home is also a valid musical expression of
the human heart." ~ Victor Schermer,
All About Jazz
"Nate
Birkey, he of mysterious charisma, subtle gossamer trumpet lines and understated
voice, hunches over the microphone and leans into his phrases, shutting out the
world."
~Josef Woodard, Los Angeles Times
For
info, photos, mp3s please contact Nate Birkey at:
nate@natebirkey.com
Links:
www.natebirkey.com
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Headless Household
What:
Headless Household, "Spring Sing '10"
When:
Wednesday, June 23, 8 p.m.
Where:
SOhO,
1221 State St. Santa Barbara CA
Cost: $10
Information: (805)-962-7776,
www.sohosb.com
Who:
Dick Dunlap, Tom Lackner, Joe Woodard, Julie Christensen, Tom Buckner, Sally Barr, Bill Flores,
Kenny Edwards, ... and ?,
(photo: Paul
Wellman, at Knapp's Castle)
Fresh off of a March concert at the Lobero
Theatre to celebrate the release of its 25th anniversary CD, the double-disc
Basemento, Headless Household returns to another
favorite venue, SOhO, for its "Spring Sing '10," on Wednesday, June
23. Santa Barbara's peculiar and
ongoing, eclectic excuse of a band mixes up elements of jazz, free
improvisation, avant-Americana, Europeana, rock, soul, Braziliana.
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press
release
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Headless Household celebrates 25th anniversary (a year late) with new
double album, Basemento, and their first concert at the Lobero Theatre,
Friday, March 19, 2010
What:
Headless Household, 25th anniversary concert (a year late)/CD release
party for the double-disc Basemento
When:
Friday, March 19, 2010, at 8 p.m.
Where:
Lobero Theatre, E. Canon Perdido
Tickets:
$15, general and $10, seniors and students. Box office: (805) 963-0408, or,
web-wise, 963-0761,
www.lobero.com
Who:
Dick Dunlap, Tom Lackner, Chris Symer, Joe Woodard, Julie Christensen, Glen
Phillips, Tom Buckner, Tom Ball, and more...
(photo: Kim Reierson, from Eighteen)
Time
plows forward, as does the urge to make music, for some. Both can be unstoppable
forces. So here we have the 25th anniversary (a year late, thanks to
the Tea Fire, and other factors) of Headless Household, Santa Barbara's peculiar
and ongoing, eclectic excuse of a band. Mixing up mixed-up elements of jazz,
free improvisation, avant-Americana, Europeana, rock, soul and a new strain of
Braziliana (in time for the bossa nova's 50th birthday), the band
presents its first concert in the historic Lobero Theatre, on Friday, March 19,
coinciding with the CD release party for its eighth feature-length album, the
double-disc item called Basemento.
flyer,
press release
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The
newly-launched band called post-Polka
(a subsidiary of Headless Household,
focusing on the avant-polka segment of the songbook) makes its official debut at
an "alt-Oktoberfest" show at the picturesque
Mercury
Lounge in Goleta, California, on October 29...
links:
"alt-Oktobefest"
press release
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post-Polka page
post-Polka on myspace:
www.myspace.com/postpolkatheband
Santa Barbara Independent blurb on the
"alt-Oktoberfest" wingding"
http://www.independent.com/events/2009/oct/29/18252/
What:
post-Polka (a subsidiary of
Headless Household), in an "alt-Oktoberfest!" show
Where:
Mercury Lounge, 5871 Hollister Ave., Goleta
When:
Thursday, October, 29, 9 p.m.
Tickets: free!
(beer tariff not included)
Contact: 967-0907,
www.myspace.com/mercurylounge,
info@householdink.com
David
Piltch... brings it back home, with CD release show at SOhO in Santa Barbara
David Piltch launched his debut album, Minister of the
Interior this spring, on Household Ink Records (with guests including his
pals and collaborators kd lang, Holly Cole, Bill Frisell, Petra Haden, and others).
On Monday, December 15, Piltch brings his music back home to the live stage, starting with
his first official show in Santa Barbara, at SOhO on Monday, December 15.
Joining David will
regular allies Gaby Moreno, on vocals and guitar, and ace
guitarist Mark (Jackson Browne) Goldenberg--who join him at his regular
residency shows at Largo in Los Angeles--with assorted guests dropping
by--including Joe Henry and Brandi Shearer...
and... ?
What:
David Piltch (with
Gaby Moreno, Mark Goldenberg, Joe Henry, Mark Anthony Thompson
(aka "Chocolate Genius") and Brandi Shearer...
When:
Monday, December 15, 8 p.m.
Where:
SOhO,
1221 State St. Santa Barbara CA
Cost: $10
Information: (805)-962-7776,
www.sohosb.com
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Shelly
Rudolph
In her first Santa Barbara show in two years, the
wondrous Portland-based "world soul" artist--who released her album
Water in My Hand in 2006--returns to SOhO on
October 20. Joining Shelly will be her regular PDX guitar ally Chance Hayden,
along with drummer Tom Lackner, bassist Jack Joshua, and guitarist Joe Woodard.
Expect jazz, R&B, blues, trace elements of country and other sensuous
goodies.
What:
Shelly Rudolph
When:
Monday, October 20, 8 p.m.
Where:
SOhO,
1221 State St. Santa Barbara CA
Cost: $10
Information: (805)-962-7776,
www.sohosb.com
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