{"id":390,"date":"2008-10-09T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=390"},"modified":"2008-10-09T11:09:14","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T16:09:14","slug":"malcolm-holcombe-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm Holcombe and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

Live Music<\/p>\n

Our live music treasure hunt continued on Saturday at the Living Room, where we heard Malcolm Holcombe<\/a>, a gravelly-voiced, almost scarily intense singer-songwriter from North Carolina. Elisa<\/a> described him as “transformational” in that he pulls you completely into the world of the song he’s singing, and that’s a rare thing. \"Malcolm<\/a> He attacks his guitar like he’s kneading a recalcitrant loaf of bread, then turns around and picks with hushed sensitivity; with vocals like Tom Waits and songs recalling John Hiatt, he’s a force of music not to be missed. Here’s a recent profile<\/a> on Holcombe in the Wall Street Journal.<\/i><\/p>\n

Last night was our monthly Whisperado’s Mud Room event at Kenny’s Castaways<\/a>. It was an especially special night of specialness because it brought together Whisperado<\/a> (my original band, with David Mills and Patrick Nielsen Hayden), my old musical friend Jon Kolleeny<\/a>, my upstate buddy John Scarpulla<\/a> on whose debut CD I recently played bass, and the latest project in which I have become involved, a new Byrds tribute band called Eight Miles High<\/a>, led by the indefatigable Roy Goldberg. A bleeping good time was had by all. My only problem was that since I was singing in two different bands over the course of the night, I needed to avoid the drying effects of alcohol consumption. Someone needs to invent an alcoholic beverage that doesn’t dehydrate the body. Perhaps it’s time for a Manhattan<\/a> Project along these lines. Maybe DARPA should get involved. The economy needs the boost, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Live Music Our live music treasure hunt continued on Saturday at the Living Room, where we heard Malcolm Holcombe, a gravelly-voiced, almost scarily intense singer-songwriter from North Carolina. Elisa described him as “transformational” in that he pulls you completely into the world of the song he’s singing, and that’s a rare thing. He attacks his … Continue reading “Malcolm Holcombe and More”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-york-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}