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Concert Wed Oct 17 2007
Malcolm Holcombe
Look at that picture. What do you think he sounds like? If you said some kind of cross between John Prine, Greg Brown and Steve Earl than you guessed right. It seems October 19 is turning into the best night of the year for roots music with at least two competing concerts to choose between. I already wrote about Chris Smither at the Beverly Arts Center but now I've just learned that Malcolm Holcombe is playing the extreme other side of Chicago at The Red Line Tap in the heart of Rogers Park (adjacent to Heartland Cafe).
Malcolm has been playing his brand of gloomy folk blues since the mid 80's, recording and self releasing cds and touring like a backwoods Medicine show hawker. In 2007/2008 he's hooked up with the new NC label Echo Mountain Records. Combine that with the fact that his weathered and parched voice has finally reached the perfect timbre (finally accumulating the right mix of alcohol and tobacco - think Tom Waits in the late 70's) and perhaps his songs will finally connect to at least a broader base than the folk circuit he presently travels in. Here's "Sparrows And Sparrows" from his acclaimed 2006 release Not Fogotten. Songs:Illinois (full disclosure - that's me) has a song from his new ep, Wager).