Well, sorry guys…
This one’s a little obvious. This weekend’s a New Year’s joke without being at the Hi-Tone for Harlan T. Bobo’s New Year’s Eve show. You don’t want to miss it because he’ll probably have something up his sleeve like one-man bouncy castles for everybody or puppets playing all the instruments while wearing invisibility cloaks.
Or it could just be some rock and roll and champagne on New Year’s Eve.
Harlan is this city’s most unique songwriter and performer. His latest and third release, Sucker, came out earlier this year. The record received a 4.5/5 star review from American Songwriter. Pitchfork sums it up as “…an album about settling in but not settling down or, god forbid, simply settling, and Bobo’s music reveals all the wanderlust left in him.”
Goner also released an album by a new project, including Bobo at 1/4th of the helm, called Luv Clowns. The Luv Clown’s debut, Love Clowns!, finds Harlan, along with Memphis underground vets Doug Easley, Alex Greene, and T. Prudhomme, singing and playing fun, goofy, quirky songs for kids along with little skits between. If you ever wanted to to raise indie rock kids, make this their soundtrack til their tiny ears bleed.
Long-time collaborators Jack O. and the Tennessee Tearjerkers open the New Year’s Eve show Friday night at 10pm. It’s should be a truly raucous night of music on probably the most raucous night of the year. Make it happen.
Harlan T Bobo / Jack O. / Facebook Event /Tickets
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