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By Don Allred
Wooly Lemons
Thursday @ Circus
The Athens-based Wooly Lemons play late '60s/early '70s-style hard rock, bringing more than dust to their self-titled debut's flashlight glimpses of insomniacs, lodged in the clouds of personal history. A rollicking, Faces-style piano sprinkles "Gasoline;" organ and electric piano come to faithful afterlife in "Only A Man." "Clean" has a bass-soaked, droning friction that works floors and other so-called lowest points like loose teeth. "Blues For Ju Ju"'s specialist then confirms/reassures/pleads, "You just got those sideways in reverse," while drums sway through tombstone testimonials (still in progress, or motion, at least).
Jackie Greene
Sunday @ The LC
Young Jackie Greene has frequently toured with Phil Lesh And Friends, but continues to roll his own way. On his latest album, "Giving Up The Ghost," Greene, though sometimes spooked by his native California, gives it up to the girl he'd tried to warn about the sweet-sounding night parade. Now she's "in my veins," but no complaints. After all, "You can go through Hell/ and come out pure/If you don't let the Devil take your mind." He's quite a guide, soulfully shape-shifting through the beaded curtains and the boulevards.
Jordan O'Jordan
Monday @ Rumba
Singer-songwriter Jordan Smith became Jordan O'Jordan, spinning his enriched "O" around the globe, back to "Waverly, Ohio." He sacrifices original illusions about his old flame, finds stray rays of "You Are My Sunshine," then he and his banjo flow through some Christopher Marlowe. "A Town's Reply To A Banjo" includes a snatch of Marlowe's own "The Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd." Game, set and match. It's still on. He's resourceful, community-minded, and unabashed. (Meanwhile, everyone and everything silently sings along, in the shadows of "Don't Make Me Out As An Asshole.")
Morningbell
Tuesday @ Treehouse
Morningbell's best psych-pop explores the romance of creativity and perversity. On "Through The Belly Of The Sea," an escape artist imagines that "the heart is still alive," before admitting that it is (sucks for him, sounds awesome for us). New tracks on MySpace promenade into space war when mating grows stale, then call Eve back to the garden, past "God's thousand-yard stare." Whatever's impossible; you just gotta know when to move (and groove). A Bonnaroo video finds them drumming on the gates of "Life! Death! No mawn-stah's gonna turn me away!"
Originally Published: July 1, 2009
