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CHIRP WELCOMES: THE dB’s and the Vulgar Boatmen
Old Town School of Folk Music
4544 N. Lincoln Avenue
Chicago
,
IL
60625
(773) 728-6000
All Ages
CHIRP is excited to welcome The dB's and the Vulgar Boatmen to The Old Town School of Folk Music on Saturday, October 12th!
The dB's are singer/songwriters Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey along with Gene Holder on bass and Will Rigby on drums. The foursome grew up in Winston-Salem, NC, and helped define what would become the rich North Carolina indie-rock scene but emigrated to New York in the late 1970s and formed the band, frequently appearing at CBGB, Maxwell's and other influential venues.
Pitchfork cited the band's Stands for deciBels among its 100 Top Albums of the 1980s.
In the early 1990's, the Vulgar Boatmen's first two albums, You and Your Sister and Please Panic, garnered accolades from virtually every major music publication in the country, despite being barely available on the tiny Record Collect and Safehouse labels. The group's unique working arrangement (two distinct lineups, located 800 miles apart, fronted separately by songwriters Robert Ray and Dale Lawrence) received a lot of attention - but so did their style, a melodic hypno-R&B, compared to everyone from Buddy Holly and Bo Diddley to Young Marble Giants and the Velvet Underground. The band continues to pack midwestern clubs to this day.