David Dondero, Cats Meow, Schizoid Bus Stop
02/07/18 // Outer Space Arcata (11th and Mst)
doors at 6:30, music 7-10pm
$7 // All Ages
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David Dondero:
'Dondero has earned over-the-top accolades in the press, but wouldn't mind doing without them.
Most artists would kill to have NPR put them on its list of the 10 Best Living Songwriters. But David Dondero kind of hates it.
"I wish they never would have written that," says the altogether unpretentious Minnesota native of his inclusion among the likes of Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen and Sufjan Stevens. "People say like, 'Oh wow, how great that you could get that kind of press.' But then some people come out to shows thinking it's going to be like that, and it's not, and then they're highly disappointed. And it kind of makes me ashamed of myself, because I can't play like those guys. I just do what I do very simply, and that's it."
It's true: Dondero doesn't really sound like any of those artists. Nor, for that matter, does he sound all that much like Woody Guthrie, Townes Van Zandt, or any of the other less-than-living singer-songwriters to which the former carpenter, trucker and bartender is routinely compared.
In some ways, Dondero doesn't even sound that much like himself on his new collection Inside the Cat's Eye, the latest in a career that's spanned nearly two decades and a dozen albums, three of them on Conor Oberst's Team Love label. For one thing, his vocals sound less strained and shouty than in years past, with a deeper resonance that suits the album's more reflective songs.
"Maybe I'm a late bloomer or something," he says of his newfound depth. "I guess I try singing more, rather than just screaming the lyrics. I try to get into the pocket of the song a little more."'
- Bill Forman
https://www.davedondero.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie1vkOlK8xc
The Cats Meow:
"Like folk?
Want to hear some guitar, accordion, washboard and tambourine?!
=^._.^=
Rate us 1-10 meows!"
https://catsmeow.bandcamp.com/
Schizoid Bus Stop:
Experimental Midwestern acoustic out of Arcata.
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Outer Space is run by Breakfast All Day Collective, a DreamMaker project of the Ink People Center for the Arts
Outer Space is always all ages, a safe(r) space, drug and alcohol free
ADA accessible through ramp in the back of the building
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