He’s My Brother, She’s My Sister Record Release Show @ The Troubadour // January 19, 2013
With Jenny O, Tommy Santee Klaws, and Ramshackle. The New L.A. Folk Fest presents the release party for He’s My Brother She’s My Sister’s new record, Nobody Dances In This Town.
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Tommy Santee Klaws 8pm
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Ramshackle 8:45pm
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Jenny O. 9:30pm
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He’s My Brother She’s My Sister 10:30pm
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We go way back with He’s My Brother She’s My Sister, way back to 2008, pretty sure, when we first saw this family band sing through clattering teeth on a wooden porch in Pioneertown, the ghost town behind Pappy and Harriet’s desert hideaway.
It was late, windy, and whiskey passed between the freezing hands of a tightly knit audience. Once the band got going, the would-be popsicle people were dancing and clapping and begged the band never to stop. Right then, we knew these guys were special. Plus they had a tapdancer for percussion.
They became early members of the Folk Fest family, actually, and played our first festival in 2010. Since then, Brother-sister Rob and Rachel Kolar, Lauren Brown, Oliver “Oliwa” Newell, and Aaron Robinson have toured the country and beyond, refining their sound and costume selection, leaving a trail of new fans wherever their gypsy wagon travels.
Not every show can take place in a desert saloon or mythical mountain ranch, but some bands manage to deliver a slice of that atmosphere when they perform for city-folk at a concert venue. With a vintage gleam and carousing mood they feel at home in a ghost town but it’s music very much present in the whimsical here and now. We like that.
Hope you’ll join us for our first show of the year, way out yonder in West Hollywood.
