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SUMMARY:Sir Rick Berlin With Special Guests Wide Iris
DESCRIPTION:Berlin proffers a stylistic mix of solo piano musings that
  will inevitably evoke comparisons to Randy Newman, Tom Waits, and eve
 n Bruce Springsteen. Even the lesser compositions are interesting, if,
  for nothing else, their earnestness, their lyric imagery, and, most o
 f all, their inner integrity as expressed by Berlin’s minimalistic m
 elodic and percussive piano performances. But the best songs are stell
 ar. I would include in that charmed circle the brilliantly intuitive a
 nd bleakly sad “Buddha”; the ineffably touching “Don’t Talk Ab
 out Joan”; the engaging and almost heart-stoppingly emotional “R+R
  Romance”; and, best of all, the perhaps-soon-to-be-classic “The R
 ide,” an epic which epitomizes our terrain in much the same way as �
 ��Roadrunner” once did (and still does). Comparatively few artists l
 ay as much on the line as Berlin does on this release; songs such as �
 ��Last Man Standing” go deep to the core of what it means to have li
 ved one’s life and gathered the hard-won wisdom which only comes wit
 h hard-lived experience. Ranging across a spectrum of moods, from inte
 nsely serious songs like “Criminal” to the lowbrow comic relief of
  “Beerbelly,” this album should be regarded, alongside of Willie A
 lexander’s “Tap Dancing on My Piano,” as a genre classic. (Franc
 is DiMenno)\nWIDE IRIS\nbegan as three friends from college in 1996. W
 e quickly began headlining clubs throughout New England including The 
 Rat, TT the Bears, The Middle East Cafe, Mama Kin, Bill's Bar and seve
 ral others. We also played shows at CBGB in NYC. We've released five C
 Ds over the years and have received airplay on several radio stations 
 through the East Coast. We've performed in-studio at WBCN, WFNX, WAAF 
 and several other stations. While we still occasionally play shows, we
 're for the most part, dormant. We will have a few shows this summer t
 hat we'll be sure to make you aware of. The following review from the 
 Boston Globe probably best sums up our sound. Thanks for stopping by. 
 From the Boston Globe, Hayley Kaufman \"We don't say this to be mean. 
 But the fact is, a lot of CDs by local bands sound like, uh, CDs by lo
 cal bands. And we're not talking about production values. We're talkin
 g about the music. But every once in a while, a CD lands in the Discma
 n, and you double-take: Is this a national act that we nodded off and 
 missed somehow? They're local, right? Such was Go!'s reaction when we 
 finally spent some quality time with Wide Iris's self-titled disc. Tig
 ht, polished, and brimming with attitude, the songs purloin bits of th
 e Buzzcocks and Pixies, spin out some just-this-side-of-surf bass and 
 guitar riffs, and work the whole garage-rock punk thing into a rich, f
 oamy lather. Not only were we smiling, we were hitting the repeat butt
 on\".\nOfficial Site: http://alchemistlounge.com\n\nFor more informati
 on visit http://neighborsforneighbors.org/events/sir-rick-berlin-with-
 special
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CATEGORIES:"folk/pop/rockabilly/singer", song, writer
LOCATION:The Alchemist Lounge
WEBSITE:http://alchemistlounge.com
URL:http://alchemistlounge.com
CONTACT:617-477-5741
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