The Crepe Place

Aug 21 @ 9:00pm

Sourgrass (pictured)

Drawing on sounds from dirty-funk to down-home blues, Sourgrass incorporates bass, drums, guitar and vocals to create sounds that are disturbingly nasty. The power trio section led by Eric Ressler, Drew Cirincione, and Conor Spicer keeps you stomping your feet all night, while vocalist Jay Palmer breaks hearts and blows minds. Switching effortlessly from pounding rock to slow-as-molasses blues, Sourgrass’ repertoire makes your soul feel like you just got a fresh plate of Mama’s home cookin’. You’ll be leaving drenched in sweat and tears and begging for more…

http://www.myspace.com/sourgra ssband

The Brothers Comatose

Ben Morrison and Alex Morrison are brothers. They have been making music together from birth. Ben’s first word was ‘front-man’ and Alex’s was ‘moustache’ (see band photo). Joe Pacini and Gio Benedetti met Ben and Alex in high school. They shared many a living room jam session, many a raucous music party, many a front-stoop hoedown, but there was no band.

After years of studying, vision quests in far off lands, moving about, relocating, and the occasional intermittent music party, the young and now much hairier fellows found themselves in San Francisco with Alex, Ben and Joe living in a vibe-steeped flat on Haight Street, playing music (Ben on guitar, Alex on Banjo – both of them singing - and Joe on mandolin and cigarette breaks) at parties and open mics across the fair city. They needed a bassist. Gio happened to be a bassist. He also happened to live nearby.

The, now, quartet continued their tradition of stoop-and-living-room-esque performances, but moved them public. The dive bars of San Francisco became inspired, momentary homes, as friends, fans and music lovers rallied around the snug honesty of the band’s barroom shows. All they lacked was a brilliant fiddler with tremendous soloing skills, and with feet and soul firmly planted in the legacy of Old-Time, Bluegrass musics. Oh where, oh where could such a person be?

Philip Brezina – graduate student in classical violin at the nearby Conservatory and recent transplant from Pennsylvania – knew good roots music, knew how to play it and, best of all, knew how to play it on the fiddle. He wandered into the quartet (answering an ad posted in the Conservatory halls), and the long lost Brother Comatose was found.

http://www.myspace.com/thebrot herscomatose

$12 advance, $15 door

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