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Tag Archives: the foghorns
Album Review: The Foghorns – Turn to the Moon
The Foghorns – Turn to the Moon (Self-released, September 2021) “Apocalypse (for Alan Wilson),” the opener on the Foghorns’ recent Turn to the Moon album, is hands-down my favorite song from their vast, expansive catalog. It’s the simplest of arrangements … Continue reading
Album Review: The Cupholders Present . . . “The Wisconsin Polka!”
Supergroups are strange beasts. Jann Wenner claims that Cream, with members from the Yardbirds, the Graham Bond Organization, and John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, was rock’s first supergroup – soon to be followed by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; Blind … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 58 Songs: The Foghorns – “Queen of Decatur”
Seattle’s Foghorns strip it down to the Americana basics with “Queen of Decatur,” leaving just vocals and acoustic guitar to tell a complex personal story in simple musical terms. This is a bleak, beautiful “end-of-the-line” set piece: a hotel parking … Continue reading
Ball of Wax Winter Spectacular: Saturday, November 30th at Conor Byrne
Ball of Wax 58 (songs of winter, holidays, and winter holidays) The Foghorns, Sam Russell and the Harborrats, The Julia Francis Band, and Tom Dyer and the True Olympians Saturday, November 30th, 9pm Conor Byrne Pub Ball of Wax 58 … Continue reading
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Ball of Wax 57 Songs: The Foghorns – “Night of the Comet”
“It’s the last arcade on the street / it’s the end of the 1980s / and somehow you’re alive” is one hell of a lyric from a band that’s had more than their fair share. As a latchkey kid from … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 57: 9/14 at the Blue Moon!
Ball of Wax 57 Release Show with Tekla Waterfield, The Foghorns, Cowboy Cold, and Colin Ernst Saturday, September 14th The Blue Moon Tavern, 712 NE 45th St. $8 / Ball of Wax 57 CD included with entry Ah yes, it’s … Continue reading
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Ball of Wax 56 Songs: The Foghorns – “Middle Class Art”
The Foghorns are not a folk band. Lead Foghorn Bart Cameron may have some folk-ish tendencies – a deft way with common language and a limited set of chord progressions, a propensity for storytelling and sticking it to the man … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 54 Songs: The Cupholders – “Tiki Cup”
If you’re in need of some woozy, booze-soaked catharsis, then “Tiki Cup” is your new jam. This sounds like Crazy Horse feeling their way through a half-remembered Bo Diddley song after some serious day-drinking. The Cupholders are a sort of Ball … Continue reading
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Ball of Wax 52 Songs: The Foghorns – “Bump”
Ball of Wax stalwarts the Foghorns offer up “Bump” on Volume 52, a rollicking workout that takes a page from some of the best work in the band’s catalog. Whereas last year’s outstanding . . . on a Dog’s Ass … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 50 Songs: The Foghorns – “40 Watt Light”
The Foghorns are back (not that they ever really go away, bless ’em) with “40 Watt Light,” a tune whose warm, smoky swing belies the cold, bitter lyrical content. We seem to have here a portrait of a man trapped … Continue reading