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The Boys From County Hell, my irish group will be headlining the main stage March, 6 2009. After a sold out Cambridge Room Show this Christmas, we are moving on up.
They are doing a special promotion for the event in the way of 2 for 1 tickets! Follow this link for more information.
Filmaker Tom Comerford from Chicago, IL made this short film last Winter of "Odessa". Filmed on location in Tremont, and using old footage from the 1930's, he made this video short.
A big thank you to Tom for his beautiful work on the film, and to Don Dixon for his production on the song. It is available on my album "Things Unbroken" and on all digital outlets via Bug Music Publishing.
Odessa from Thomas Comerford on Vimeo.
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Singer-songwriter Allen sounds fine when he's down and out. When he gets to feeling good, it's downright contagious. Things Unbroken – the second solo record by the former frontman for Cleveland's alt-country darlings Rosavelt – is a more optimistic outing than 2006's Goodbye Girl and the Big Apple Circus. Producer Don Dixon – who's polished R.E.M. and Marshall Crenshaw – gives the album a vintage college-rock gloss. Songs like "She's a Fighter" and "Renegade" bounce and jangle like Paul Westerberg jamming with the Pixies. There isn't one downer here. Even the morosely titled "One Day Our Bad Luck Is Going to Save Us" chugs along like a freight train headed for happy days.
"…writer/singer Chris Allen here comes into his own as a chronicler of life's minor ups and downs. While Allen doesn't shy away from big themes—'Emerald Hope' is a decidedly non-idealistic requiem for the hippie dream and 'Saturday 3am Blue' is a beer-soaked ballad that threatens existential despair—he injects an equal dose of poignancy into the raggedy roots rockers that give this record its soul…If you miss the straight-talking side of Jeff Tweedy…you'll want to get to know Chris Allen"
SCENE MAGAZINE 2006 CLEVELAND BEST OF ISSUE "Chris Allen cut his teeth in Rosavelt, playing a rugged roots-rock sound reminiscent of Exile-era Stones and The Replacements. Now, on his solo debut, Goodbye Girl and the Big Apple Circus, Allen has created the perfect soundtrack for the broken hearted. Whether pining after "Sweet Lorraine" or pondering a "Guilty Heart," Allen has a way with tales of longing and loss, delivered in a gritty, baritone drawl."
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