Pokey LaFarge - The Ark, Ann Arbor, MI - July 30, 2013
Great show by Pokey LaFarge. Pretty long set, probably about 1hr 45 mins.
They played another 4-5 songs but unfortunately I wasn't able to record them.
Recorded using PowerShot ELPH 330 HS - 16Bits 48KHz Linear PCM Stereo (WAV) ----> FLAC using xACT
I'll keep seeding, however I won't be able to seed 24/7.
01 - St. Louis Blues
02 - Sadie Green
03 - City Summer Blues
04 - What The Rain Will Bring
05 - Central Time
06 - Claude Jones
07 - Won'tcha Please Don't Do It
08 - Pack It Up
09 - Fan It
10 - Close The Door
11 - St. Louis Crawl
12 - A Good Man Is Hard To Find
13 - Day After Day
14 - When My Baby Comes To Town
15 - La La Blues
16 - One Town at a Time
17 - Let's Get Lost
18 - All Night Long
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Pokey LaFarge
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MARTIN BANDYKE: Pokey LaFarge talks about roots music, 'The Lone Ranger,'
and Jack White ahead of Ark show
MARTIN BANDYKE (/USERS/PROFILE/?UID=163) AnnArbor.com Freelance Journalist
Reinventing and reinvigorating old-time music for a contemporary
audience, Pokey LaFarge (http://www.pokeylafarge.net) will be in Ann
Arbor this Tuesday for his first-ever headlining appearance at The Ark,
generating well-deserved accolades for his self-titled new album.
Released on Jack White's Third Man Records, LaFarge explores
western swing, ragtime, blues and folk with a ton of energy and style,
taking traditional American music out of the museum and making it
vital and fresh once again.
The Illinois native who was born Andrew Heissler comes to town on
the heels of some major concert and television appearances,
performing on David Letterman's show earlier this month and at the
SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas earlier this year. Recently I caught up
to LaFarge via phone during a tour stop in Atlanta to discuss his new
album with an old-time feel.
Q: How did you first meet Jack White and get signed to his label
Third Man Records?
Pokey LaFarge: Well, Jack lives in Nashville and heard a song of mine while listening to WSM, 650 AM. He's always got his ear to
the ground for talent and called me up and said he liked my voice. He wanted to know if I wanted to do a single with him. So I did that
over two years ago and then backed him up on the song �I Guess I Should Go To Sleep� off his �Blunderbuss� album, opened up a
bunch of shows for him, and when it came time for my new record it seemed like a natural fit, really.
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Q: Why did you choose Ketch Secor of the alternative-country band Old Crow Medicine Show to produce your new album?
P.L.: Ketch and I go way back. I grew up playing old time music and wanted to be a fiddle player. I was living in North Carolina and
Kentucky and would go to shows and find him backstage and talk and we became pals over the years. This is the first time I've
worked with a producer and Ketch was the guy I wanted to give a call to. He concentrates very much on the lyrics and has a very
positive attitude and was a pleasure to work with.
Q: What led you to become interested in the music that you play? Why roots Americana instead of rap or rock or heavy
metal?
P.L.: I was listening to classic rock growing up, but very early on I wasn't really a fan of any of the popular music that was coming out.
I felt like I could see through it; just the sheer lack of quality in the music made it seem like it was all manufactured, computer
garbage. In fact it seems like it's just getting worse and worse.
I was exposed to early music at a young age, and that became what I wanted to write and play, what I wanted to listen to. I don't
believe in any kind of evolution without taking the good qualities from the past. Think of a craft brewer or a barber or a carpenter;
these are people that are taking old techniques and utilizing them for the future. People misinterpret what I do sometimes because
they don't know a great deal about old-time American music. There's also a stigma attached to doing anything old-timey; they think
it's a museum piece. We want to make people dance and have a good time and be open minded, because that sound is here to stay.
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Q: Who were some of the keystone artists you discovered growing up?
P.L.: Howlin' Wolf was a big guy early on, both literally and figuratively. I also admire Tommy Duncan, Bob Wills, Lefty Frizzell,
Jimmie Rodgers and Merle Haggard.
Q. Speaking of Bob Wills, you and rockabilly singer J.D. McPherson recently released a cover of the Bob Wills tune �Good
Old Oklahoma� as a charity effort to raise money for those affected by the tornado which hit the state of Oklahoma earlier
this year. How did that come about?
P.L.: J.D. is from Tulsa and we're both big Bob Wills fans. When the tornado blew through there he had an idea to help out and I
came up with the song. We recorded it and the rest is history. I hope that it continues to sell and that we can help contribute to the
cause.
Q: Tell us about your contribution to �The Lone Ranger� film soundtrack. I haven't caught up to the movie yet myself, but I
understand you're in it as well, right?
P.L.: We're the band in the saloon doing a song that Jack (White) wrote (�Red's Theater of the Absurd�). I haven't seen it yet either,
but I understand that if you blink you'll miss me. We're on the screen for a whole second (laughs).
Pokey LaFarge plays The Ark, 316 S. Main St., at 8 p.m. Tuesday, July 30. Tickets are $15. Martin Bandyke is the 6-10 am morning
drive host on ann arbor's 107one, WQKL-FM. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and at www.martinbandyke.com
(http://www.martinbandyke.com).
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