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Saw Seu Jorge on Tuesday night, with opening singer Jehro (short for Jrme Cotta). Jehro was absolutely fantastic, just him on guitar/ singin and another guitarist, with some beat-samples mixed in. He comes from France, with mixed heritage, but his music is a blend of Caribbean styles. I think this is the only time I've seen an audience clamor for an encore from an opening act that just wasn't coming... for whatever reason, it seems his set-length was strictly limited. I loved his voice. At the time, I came up with the phrase "like a cracked-out Terence Trent D'arby," but the folks on Amazon just say "like an angel," and maybe that's more, uh, fitting or complimentary.
Seu Jorge was great too; he only did one Bowie track, but then I didn't expect more than that, as he has his own music. His band consisted of bass; drums/percussionist; percussionist; himself, of course; and a ukelele/ drummmer/ percussionist. I'm tempted to say Jehro's the better songwriter... but the differences of quality between the two acts are infinitesimal. Seu's band brings the fiesta Brasil, no doubt. Seu's is a little harder to recognize now; he has mop-hair over his face and a bushy van dyke beard. I'm trusting it was, in fact, him.

Finally got my couch moved out... to a friend's place. Still have to sell it. Nmmmm. Rhubarb cake w/ strawb ice cream is off da hook.

It's the last day to get in on the benefit show for Lauren K Newman: http://www.helplkn.com/
performances by Scout Niblett, Dantronix, eMBROWNLOWe & Swallows, We Quit

I really like howdypardner.