Wednesday, March 23 2011 9:00 PM
21+ $20.00
Lincoln Hall
Jill Sobule belongs to a rare breed of artists. Her work is at once deeply personal and socially conscious, seriously funny and derisively tragic. Over five albums and a decade of recording, the Denver-born songwriter/ guitarist/singer has tackled such topics as the death penalty, anorexia, shoplifting, reproduction, the French resistance movement, adolescence, and the Christian right. Did we mention love? Love found, love lost, love wished for and love taken away.
While her songs cover a huge amount of ground, they all have benefit greatly from Jill's subtle intelligence and skillful light-handedness. No sloganeering flag-and-fist waving here, but rather story songs about human beings, real and imagined, which allow us to step back from the issue, be it personal or social, and relate to it as we would a close friend.
John Doe is a founding member of the seminal LA punk rock outfit X and the country spin-off band The Knitters. Doe’ s solo career began with 1990’ s Meet John Doe, and he has since garnered worldwide acclaim. Entertainment Weekly calls his work, “ rip-roarin’ and warm-hearted,” Q deems it “ the tightest, finest and most morally acute music of the last 20 years,” and The Boston Globe praises its “ striking emotional territory...”
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