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Live Review: Audra Kubat & The Styreens @ New Hudson Inn Posted on: 12-18-2005 @ 02:20 pm |
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Saw Audra Kubat & The Styreens at The New Hudson Inn of all places. Audra was off her game a bit, probably due to the Bass Ale I accosted her with at the beginning of her set, but she still delivered that divine and haunting voice. She played a short set, then was on and off the stage throughout the night. Worst song of the night: "Amazing Grace" with Styreens as back-up. Best songs of the night, "Georgia" off Million Year Old Sand and "Urge To Go" off Untitled For Now. In retrospect, Audra thinks her lyric about French Toast is awful. I think it's brilliant.
Poor girl, though. I was in her face most of the night; requesting an autograph, requesting songs she hasn't sung in years, pelting her with questions about her experience in New York (disappointed with their fascination with hokey and mostly soulless type of folk music) and giving my unsolicited opinion of what she should do with her music ("Dude, you need a band!" - what an ass I am). I bought a copy of "Million Year Old Sand" after pestering her several times about bringing one into the bar for me. Thankfullly, Audra was much more gracious than I. She even kissed me on the cheek as she left, thanking me for giving a damn. {{{sigh}}} I'll never wash my face again.
The Styreens were very cool, if a bit green as a cohesive musical unit. They're a hillbilly band that plays traditional mountain folk instruments (violin, viola, bass, banjo, and acoustic guitar among others). They're music was the perfect soundtrack for an 175 year old stage-coach bar that, according to the locals, is haunted by a cowboy-hat wearing apparition known as "Tex". The staff won't even visit the upstairs because of it's eeriness - oh, and the danger of falling through the original floor.
I talked with the knit-cap clad lead singer of The Styreens (I think her name was Amanda) between sets and complimented her on her great voice. She told me she's from Fargo North Dakota and "did the whole hobo thing" for a few years, eventually ending up in Detroit with The Styreens. They regularly play a Sunday breakfast gig somewhere deep in the city. Their puppy-eyed "tub-thumper" (i.e. double bass plaer) is a music education major from Wayne State University and will be the go-to girl for future press releases and web presence. (Did I mention the entire band is made up entirely of females? Perhaps I'm making progress - because it totally slipped my mind.) I'll be looking forward to seeing The Styreens again.
Reluctantly, I took my drunken redneck neighbor to the show with me. He looked more at home there than most of the visitors - but he got extremely drunk and obnoxious. I had to pry him away from the bar and away from a well-worn local who insists her men drive Harleys, not "rice burners". But it's kind of funny to see the dapper city metrosexuals squirming in their seats in the same room with genuine drunken rednecks in a biker bar. I think they're trying to change all that though, at least for the weekends, with the recent addition of live music. I hope it lasts because The New Hudson Inn is real close to home and it's kind of cozy.
-Mitch |
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Last updated on 12-18-2005 @ 03:23 pm
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