The Brass Rail – Fort Wayne Indiana – Rock Club dressed up as a dive bar

Andy Friedman & The Golden Winners, Lee Miles & The Illegitimate Sons

Saturday September 26th, 2009
Andy Friedman & The Golden Winners
Lee Miles & The Illegitimate Sons
10PM
$3

Nicknamed the “Hillbilly Leonard Cohen” (Athens News) and “The King of Art Country,” (Minneapolis City Pages) Friedman’s “fractured folk songs” (Los Angeles Times) explore issues of art, wild dreams, and wanderlust, while celebrating “those who wash down life’s knuckle sandwiches with ice-cold despair” (Time Out New York). NPR’s Faith Salie adds, “Friedman is not exactly one of those musicians you play while you’re paying your bills or cleaning the house. His songs demand that you sit down and listen to them, which is why he is such a hot live act.”

THE NEW YORKER: “Hard-tack country originals that bear the mark of a true artist. . .Friedman’s take on the honky-tonk sound is wholly unique.”

Lee Miles was born of the dust and grew slowly into hurricanes and thunderstorms. He considered himself a sovereign state loyalist and guerilla in a Civil War that never ended. A criminal from his birth, Miles regretted none of his thievings nor any of his murders, which were done with words in times of necessity. He spent his days reading portends in the rotted bellies of elk… or the dances of dead crows’ feathers along the riverbed. The future revealed to him a number of things, the least of which was greatness in song.

Read article by Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette’s Steve Penhollow