Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Music news CL recommended show for Thurs., Oct. 23. William Elliot Whitmore at the Drunken Unicorn
Posted by Chad Radford @ChadRad on Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:50 PM
WILLIAM ELLIOT WHITMORE is a farm boy from rural Iowa with a scratchy voice that bears the scars of a man who has experienced harder times than most folks will ever know. His death-afflicted country hymns channel a broken soul through a broken banjo and his brittle pick and stomp commune with the Grim Reaper under icy and wind-burned harmonies. But rather than dwell on the inevitable, he imbues such bleak fodder with an uplifting, existentialist embrace. Thursday's show is the first night of Whitmore's tour in support of his ANTI- debut, Animals in the Dark.
For this appearance at The Drunken Unicorn, he'll perform alongside Bloomington, Ind.'s barreling country-punk crooners Murder By Death. Baltimore's J-Roddy Walston & the Business open. $12. 9 p.m. Drunken Unicorn, 736 Ponce de Leon Place.
Photo courtesy of Epitaph.
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