Author: Shan

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Jim Bianco – Sing (live at the Purple Fiddle 2008)

Two Sisters and a Show hit Davis/Thomas, West Virginia! As all of us who attended this show have agreed that this show was one for the books and needs to be documented for posterity. It was a day of lots of driving, meeting up with new friends as close as Akron and as far away as Los Angeles, of highly charged music, fun, festivities, flashers (passers by, not performers or audience), broken guitar strings, mid-show trips back to the hotel to retrieve strings, stringing strings from antique guitars hung on the walls as decoration, technical difficulties that led to performances with mucho gusto, broken cameras, and hypnogogic imagery. Try topping that!

A few photos from the trip, and then I’ll start off the music with a little snippet of Jim Bianco and his fellow musicians, Brad Gordon (on trumpet) and Jason Pipkin (on drums) belting out the tunes (just a small window of the energy these guys had that night) on “Never Again.” After that, an unplugged version of “Sing.” If you ever get the chance to see Jim live, do! Besides being an accomplished musician he’s also part comedian and story teller, and a great time ye shall have, is guaranteed.

Joseph Arthur with Emily Wells – Black Lexus (live City Winery NYC September 2009)

FUN DOUBLE PLAY from Two Sisters and a Show! The first clip below was taken by Ady this past September at the City Winery in New York City, and the one below that was taken by the woman who sat across from us at our table. I suggest playing both videos at the same time (and syncing them up*, the second video has about 30 seconds at the start of Joe and Emily getting the loops set up) for a very unique viewing experience, indeed. As a side note, this is the show where we first learned of the amazing Emily Wells. One other thing we learned that night: stay away from the (overly delicious) Gavi wine!

*Edit: I’ve got it, set the top video to the 3 second mark, then drop to the bottom one and set to to the 53 second mark, press play on top, then on bottom, fiddle around to get it synced up precisely right, and let it roll!