The Mountain Goats & Kaki King

Live At The Granada Theater On Sunday November 2, 2008
Doors 8pm Show 9pm
www.granadatheater.com
myspace.com/granada_theater
"Voted Best Live Music Venue In Dallas" (Dallas Observer 2007 & 2008)

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Most bios attempt to describe the music made by the band they're profiling, and to compare it favorably to the work of giants in the field. This isn't that kind of bio. The general musical framework within which the Mountain Goats have worked for ten-plus years has been acoustic guitar, bass, and voice. The lyrics are central to the whole enterprise. Many of the songs involve desperate characters who've found themselves in some trouble and want to moan about it a little before taking their lumps. The sexual tension between characters in your average Mountain Goats song could split the atom if the power could be harnessed, but it can't, so forget it. Now you know what we know. Go forth and sin no more.

Kaki King is a feisty, five-foot, funny, outspoken Atlanta transplant who now lives in New York, a city whose energy is almost equal to her own. She also happens to be the most exciting solo guitarist/composer to have come along in decades. For King, the guitar isn't just a reverie machine; it's a percussion instrument, just like the drums she played with her high school band. Sure, there were guitars around the house -- her father, a lawyer, was a music lover who spotted his daughter's talent early on.

For More Information:
www.themountaingoats.net
www.myspace.com/themountaingoats
www.kakiking.com
www.myspace.com/kakiking

Goes Good With: REM, Iron & Wine, John Vanderslice, The Weakerthans
CD World Sez: Champions of the lofi, singer-songwriter subverters.