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Concert Tue Aug 01 2006
visitthenineteeneighties
Singer-songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips brings his acclaimed songbook to Schubas Tavern tonight and tomorrow night, but it'll be the covers the kids're lining up to hear. Phillips is touring with his improbably irresistable 80's covers album, nineteeneighties. What could have been a smarmy cash-in is instead a winning, personal mixtape, recasting beloved alternahits and lesser-known numbers in the warm, strumming glow of the onetime Grant Lee Buffalo frontman's golden pipes and spacey alt.country-ish arrangements. Need a taste? Swing by his MySpace page to check out his cover of REM's "South Central Rain." Better yet, stop by Captain's Dead and check out Phillips' spooky organ/Hawaiian slide guitar remake of "Wave of Mutilation". You'll be playing it for everyone you know.
