No option for "Peggy Sue" or "Let's Go"?
Yes, I haven't had coffee yet, but am still feeling playful.
― Matt M., Thursday, 3 May 2012 13:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yes, the pier next to the Intrepid, Redd.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 May 2012 14:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Contest here http://www.marshallcrenshaw.com/index.php#Upcoming gigs at the City Winery
― Shakes-a-maxion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 01:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh wait, this seems to be a year old.
― Shakes-a-maxion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 01:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well, this is three years old. But I like the story...
a friend of mine went to a friend's 50th birthday party in connecticut the other year. it was a big bash, and he'd been told there would be a live band. so he got there and wandered out to this big tent that had been set up in the backyard and saw the band was setting up, and it was marshall crenshaw. i guess the guy who was turning 50 was a big marshall crenshaw fan, so his wife did a little web searching and discovered that she could hire marshall crenshaw for, i don't know, three grand or something. with a rhythm section and all. my friend said marshall was good, did an hour or so, didn't seem to care that he was playing to 60 people in a connecticut backyard or whatever.
― us_odd_bunny_lady (tipsy mothra), Sunday, June 28, 2009 7:44 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wonder how much Robbie Fulks would have charged?
― Shakes-a-maxion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, whatever happened to Robbie?
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't know anything about Marshall Crenshaw outside of the fact that he was in La Bamba, but Robbie Fulks had a regular Monday night gig at the Hideout last time I checked.
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
I guess 'Girls Girls Girls' isn't on this record...the gear shift between verse/chorus in that song always drives me nuts.
― calstars, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 03:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
The reason I mentioned Robbie was that you can also contact him and hire him for your backyard party. When I was last keeping track of him he had moved to NYC for a spell while his wife Donna was appearing in Our Town and was playing duets at Barbès a lot with Jenny Sheinman right before she had her baby. He's probably been back in Chicago for about two years now
― Shakes-a-maxion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 03:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
Took a minute to register, but in a store on the way home the radio was playing "Whenever You're on My Mind." (No chance it was a CD.) I'm mystified as to which station would play this in 2013. We're basically down to one college station here, and, based on the store, it's a thousand to one that was the station--which is probably moot, because I doubt Marshall ever gets played on that station anyway. Past that, I can't even begin to guess what format it would have been.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:26 (2 months ago) Permalink
sure it wasn't Muzak or Pandora player?
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 22:16 (2 months ago) Permalink
Very doubtful...This is a Canadian retail thrift store--they're always selling DVDs with Big Lots stickers on them, so maybe the stores are comparable--and the woman working the cash was older than I am.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 22:35 (2 months ago) Permalink
That song used to get played a LOT on "light rock" stations around here. Don't know if it still does, I wouldn't be caught dead listening to terrestrial radio.
― ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN (Phil D.), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 22:51 (2 months ago) Permalink
This may be an American thing, but it's really easy to get Muzak or related services in stores and restaurants, no matter their size.
― Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 22:56 (2 months ago) Permalink
I'd be more inclined to go with the first possibility. Maybe Marshall has a whole other easy-listening existence I wasn't aware of.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 23:00 (2 months ago) Permalink