New Riders Of The Purple Sage
Wed. Sep 24, 2014 at 7:00pm EDT
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New Riders of The Purple Sage
Wednesday September 24 @ 7 pm
$35 adv. $40 door
Relix Magazine 7/22/09
If there was anyone who needed proof that the present-day lineup of the New Riders of the Purple Sage isn’t just an oldies band going through the motions rehashing fan faves, then here it is: Where I Come From finds the Riders fresh, fiery, and funkier than ever. Strong songs (eight new Robert Hunter/David Nelson tunes with Riders Michael Falzarano, Johnny Markowski, and Ronnie Penque contributing, as well) and soaring jams (led by Telemaster Nelson and pedal steel monster Buddy Cage) make this a much-welcome chapter in the evolution of the Dead family tree. Does it soundlike the New Riders? Fo’ sho’. And that’s a good thing.
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Relix Magazine
New Riders of the Purple Sage – 17 PINE AVENUE (Woodstock Records)
by Jesse Jarnow Birthed (as they say) because Jerry Garcia wanted an outlet to play pedal steel, David Nelson and John “Marmaduke” Dawson probably would’ve started a band anyway, and the New Riders of the Purple Sage have galloped onward for most of the past four decades. Buddy Cage replaced Garcia in ’72 and Marmaduke died in 2009, but semi-unretired Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter-who penned sevensongs with Nelson, steeped in the same Bay Area folkwaters as Garcia and Hunter themselves-is on board for this incarnation. The glorious centerpiece is “Suite at the Mission,” ringing like a lost Garcia/Hunter number cut from the same existential cloth as “Wharf Rat,” “Mission in the Rain” and countless others, weary and triumphantly defiant. Cage’s pedal steel lays a tearful bed for Nelson’s craggy delivery; Hunter’s familiar world opens up instantly. In somewhat looser form elsewhere (like the F-bombed “No Time”), Hunter and the New Riders exude boogie wisdom of the “U.S. Blues.” The non-Hunter tunes aren’t nearly as elegant, but that’s not their fault, and it’s a welcome dispatch from Hunter and the New Riders’ American West as sunset approaches
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Sportsmens Tavern
326 Amherst Street
Buffalo, NY 14207
Buffalo, NY 14207