An Intimate Evening with John Doe + Lia Rose - Friday, February 03 8:00 PM
Friday, February 3, 8:00 pm
Blackbird Presents:
An Intimate Evening with John Doe +Lia Rose opening
Doors: 7:30 pm
$20.00 Adv / $22.00 Door
Tickets available at: www.johndoefeb3.
“Doe beautifully balances a rocker’s heart and a poet’s soul.” - Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times 2011
Keeper is John Doe’s first solo album since 2007’s acclaimed A Year in the Wilderness, which the Los Angeles Times gave it’s highest four-star honor. He is a founding member of the seminal L.A. punk band X and the Alt-Country group The Knitters. His solo career began with 1990’s Meet John Doe. Since then he has garnered worldwide acclaim. Entertainment Weekly calls his work, “rip-roarin’ and warm-hearted,” Q deems it “the tightest, finest and most morally acute music of the last 20 years.
“Doe locates a place somewhere between rock ‘n’ roll and country music to summon up the atmosphere he wants to achieve. Some of these songs operate as the gorgeous soundtrack to a darkly romantic movie in which Doe is the B-movie star, a vocal version of Robert Ryan or Dana Andrews, seeking solace and serenity.” -Ken Tucker, NPR 2011
“I figured out how to write a love song where the people actually get loved. It became easier to write about more than the lovelorn songs that made up most of those previous records. It’s difficult to say that you’ve succeeded without sounding like your bragging, but I believe that on this record the edge is not lost. And as you grow up you realize that a certain amount of satisfaction and happiness is a very good thing. Pieces of sadness exist in everything but it doesn’t have to be the only thing.”
Lia Rose gained attention fronting the SF indie band Built for the Sea. Rose now invites us into her more intimate world with resonant, compassionate and beautifully honest songs from her debut solo alubm “When You Need Me Most.”
