Buffalo Live! Music Podcast - 2 Songs From Buffalo

Rock and Roll with a Bluesey Soul - Handsome Jack at the Tralf May 25, 2007

Handsome Jack, Brian Wheat and Groggy Darlin’, and Johnny Nobody all shared a triple-bill at the Tralf for this show. We featured Brian Wheat in last week’s show and Johnny Nobody will be coming up next week.

It was especially gratifying to hear all these bands, as they all are from my hometown, Lockport NY. Lockport, of course, is a sleepy little town known for sitting on the Erie Canal. Not quite close enough to Buffalo to be considered a suburb, yet close enough to allow you to live there and work in Buffalo, it is also the County Seat of Niagara County.

Enough history. Handsome Jack seems like your typical band success story, except they haven’t written the ending yet. A group of High School friends get together to jam in one of their garages and are awful. But they persevere and learn their craft. They get better and pretty soon are writing songs and playing gigs. They get a loyal following of fans.

That story is pretty stereotypical, yet, it fits Handsome Jack. All they need is the right ending to be a success story.

The IRock Cleveland blog thinks Handsome Jack is pretty good. They wrote a review on them a while ago. You can read it here.

Of course, to keep up on everything going on with the band, visit their website: http://www.myspace.com/handsomejack

This show was recorded at The Tralf in front of a big crowd of friends, family and fans who were pretty boisterous. It is a mix of a direct feed off the soundboard and a live mike, and the feel is pretty much that of a live show. Exactly what this podcast is supposed to be, I’ve got a couple tracks at the end of the show from the bands website that show off their studio sound, but the live stuff sounds pretty good as well.

Setlist:

Track 1 (title unknown)
Love machine
Fourth of July
Track 4 (title unknown)
Moondog
Fine Line
Track 7 (title unknown)
Track 8 (title unknown)
Interview with Steve “Owl” Sandman
Freelance Green
Heatseeker
Dead Man (from MySpace)
Blood (MySpace)

Check the band website for upcoming gigs. They’re doing some touring this summer, but have several local shows scheduled as well. Get out and see Handsome Jack so you can say you saw them before the end of their success story was written!

 

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