Rhythm & Roots
Concert Series
P.O. Box 32857
Tucson, AZ 85751
(520) 319-9966
www.RhythmAndRoots.org
 
(1) Pair Tickets    
The FRED EAGLESMITH BAND
Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010, 7:30pm

“Often cited as a musical poet of small-town America… Eaglesmith has carved out an enviable cult niche,” observes the Minneapolis Star Tribune. He has built that following over the last three decades of his truly independent and alternative career by near constant touring and releasing superb albums. With his new release, Tinderbox, Eaglesmith is ascending to the next level, packing most every venue he visits and being hailed as a “genius” (Arizona Daily Star) for not just his “devastatingly good” songwriting (Philadelphia Inquirer) but all that he does with it.

  “His original tunes can sound like long-lost traditional songs with a modern edge,” notes the Atlanta Journal Constitution. As the Nashville Scene observes, “His voice is varnished with whiskey, the raw scratch as primordial as his earthy tales of desperate, often farm-bound folk... winding tense tales around bustling Bakersfield-tinged roots rock and bluegrass.”  While the Spartanburg Herald-Journal praises, “A gifted singer-songwriter who paints vivid musical pictures filled with the kind of blue-collar heroes found in the works of James McMurtry, Guy Clark and Jerry Jeff Walker.”


Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010, 7:30pm @ ZUZI Theater in the Historic YMCA– 738 N 5th Ave.