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Artist<\/b>: Drunken Prayer<\/a>\nVenue<\/b>: The Grey Eagle<\/a>
\nDate<\/b>: Tuesday, Dec. 28, 8 p.m.
\nDoor<\/b>: $10
\nMorgan Geer is one of the most fascinating artists working today. Both his music and lyrics transcend genre, though some might tag him as Americana. I think he\u2019s too good for that label. When I reviewed his 2013 release<\/a>, I still didn\u2019t quite appreciate just what an impressive artist he is; by 2019 I have sorted that out (here<\/a> and here<\/a>), and named his Cordelia Elsewhere<\/i> among the year\u2019s best releases<\/a>.<\/p>\n
* <\/b>NOTE: NOT THE BAND’S FAULT, BUT … <\/b>$20 minimum food\/drink purchase PER PERSON in addition to the ticket price if you want seating on the main floor. For a couple who doesn\u2019t need a sitter, this means you\u2019re spending at minimum $70 for a night out. It\u2019s worth noting that no other local music venue has this policy. I think you can figure out where I stand on this particular issue.<\/p>\n Happy holidays! See you in the New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This installment of \u201c30 Days Out\u201d marks two years since the twice-monthly bulletin has been published here on Musoscribe. Before that, starting in January 2014(!), 30DO was a twice-monthly feature […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,30,36,42,44,62],"tags":[4076,4721,194,3909,237,239,725,3024,4080,3777,4346,3894],"class_list":["post-22112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americana","category-blues","category-folk","category-hip-hop","category-jazz","category-live-shows","category-rawk","tag-30-days-out","tag-adam-ezra-group","tag-andrew-scotchie","tag-arrested-development","tag-asheville","tag-asheville-music-hall","tag-drunken-prayer","tag-empire-strikes-brass","tag-isis-music-hall","tag-morgan-geer","tag-salvage-station","tag-the-grey-eagle","cat-6-id","cat-9-id","cat-30-id","cat-36-id","cat-42-id","cat-44-id","cat-62-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22113,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22112\/revisions\/22113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/30do_esb_asrr.jpg\")
Artist<\/b>: Empire Strikes Brass<\/a> + Andrew Scotchie and the River Rats<\/a>
\nVenue<\/b>: Asheville Music Hall<\/a>
\nDate<\/b>: Friday, Dec. 31, 10 p.m.
\nDoor<\/b>: $38 advance \/ $45 day of show
\nEmpire Strikes Brass combines second-line jazz with, well, I dunno exactly, but it\u2019s pretty damn exciting. I interviewed the band in 2017<\/a> and reviewed one of their albums in 2020<\/a>. Andrew Scotchie makes compelling original blues-rock. (I\u2019ve interviewed and written about him many times: 2015<\/a>, 2017<\/a>, 2018<\/a> and 2019<\/a>.) Both acts are among the brightest lights in the Asheville\/WNC music scene (and beyond!), and they\u2019re teaming up to help you have a memorable New Year\u2019s. Think of it as a masked ball.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/30do_arrestedev.jpg\")
Artist<\/b>: Arrested Development<\/a>
\nVenue<\/b>: Salvage Station<\/a>
\nDate<\/b>: Saturday, Dec. 1, 9 p.m.
\nDoor<\/b>: $45 advance \/ $50 day of show
\nLed by Speech, Atlanta-based Arrested Development more or less created a new genre in the early \u201890s. Their conscious hip-hop was a break from the prevailing trends, and it caught on in a big way. After an extended hiatus, the group reactivated and continues to this day. I interviewed Speech in 2019, and you can read more from that right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/30do_adamezra.jpg\")
Artist<\/b>: The Adam Ezra Group<\/a>
\nVenue<\/b>: Isis Music Hall<\/a>
\nDate<\/b>: Friday, Dec. 14, 8:30 p.m.
\nDoor<\/b>: $15 advance \/ $18 day of show*<\/b>
\nThis indie folk-rock band from Boston has a moving backstory concerning Covid, virtual concerts, a wedding and a return to live, in-person performance. Ezra was billed as a solo artist for some time, but launched his eponymous Group several years ago. The band prides itself on live performance, as evidenced by the existence of no less than four live albums, all part of the group\u2019s \u201cBetter Than Bootleg\u201d series.<\/p>\n