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BRAVE COMBO Pops Carter 10pm
Saturday Nov 21, 2009 10:00 PM
10 bucks
- All Ages Show -
Pops Carter | 10:00 PM
 Pops Carter's story is one of a modern day "Crossroads", only in real life instead of 70mm. He was born in Shreveport, La., a virtual breeding and training ground of blues and other prominent artists of the 20th Century (Huddie Ledbetter, Kenny Wayne Shepard, Elvis Presley).
In 1930, 12-year-old Tom Carter left Northwest Louisiana just as he had started working the cotton fields. He packed everything he owned in a pillowcase and headed for Houston, where within a year he had hooked up with a 13-piece band. He spent his youth in the Houston area, and through his early adult life sang at picnics and churches and anywhere else he was called to please people using only a smile, a few dance steps and his honey-warm throat. Eventually though, dedication to his family and a day job limited Pops to spots as a guest in R&B revues, performing with numerous friends as well as new acquaintances.
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Brave Combo | 11:00 PM
 Brave Combo. Rarely, if ever, has a band name been more apropos, not only at the group's inception, but even more so 26 years after the fact. At first glance, back in 1979, the Denton, Texas, based outfit was, in shorthand, pegged as a New Wave polka band, a courageous if not almost oxymoronic endeavor during that particular rebirth of the cool. Yet it clicked and launched a stunning run that has now catapulted it into the new century. Over the last 26 years, Brave Combo has collected a dizzying array of descriptive musical pegs, boldly going where few bands have gone before, and even fewer could (or would) dare to venture. Succeeding in its first mission, Brave Combo is America's premier contemporary polka band, and a Grammy winning one at that. In the same breath, to name some but hardly all of the colors found on Brave Combo's musical palette, one can describe them as a groundbreaking world music act, a hot jazz quintet, a rollicking rock'n'roll bar band, a Tex-Mex conjunto, a sizzling blues band, a saucy cocktail combo, a deadly serious novelty act, a Latin orchestra, and one of America's dance bands par excellence. It's all in a night's music for Brave Combo, often in a synergistic fashion that includes everything from klezmer surf rock to rocking cha cha to what The Washington Post calls "mosh pit polka," as well as to the hokey pokey and the chicken dance. And zyedeco, acid rock, Muzak, bubblegum, cumbia, classical, and the twist, to still not exhaust the list. This plethoric multitude of musical styles and flavors is frequently mixed, matched, and melded, into delicious, new concoctions by an imaginative team of musical gourmet master chefs.
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