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BIRDS OF CHICAGO BAND inc JT Nero and Allison Russell

Peter Malvey

0	NOTTINGHAM: The Maze
P	Sunday 14th April, 2013
N	7:30pm

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PLEASE NOTE: Special advance ticket price of £10 is available for early purchases until the 28th Feb. 2013 (full price £12)

Birds of Chicago, is a collective based around JT Nero and Allison Russell. As always it is a real treat to have JT and Allison play the Maze once more and tonight they will have the other band members along as well. family band, Nero and Russell have emerged as two of the most compelling new voices in North American Roots music and remain a firm favourite of ours.

For several years Russell and Nero’s respective bands, Po' Girl (Vancouver, BC) and JT and the Clouds (Chicago, IL), have collaborated extensively, but on 2011’s Mountains/Forests, released under the JT Nero banner, they tapped into the true, bewitching power of their voices together on an entire record. The record received critical raves and won them new fans on both side of the Atlantic, and created a great deal of excitement for the first official Birds of Chicago album was released in October 2012.

Nero’s fractured country-soul voice wrapped in Russell’s silver and gold tones, is a fine thing. Not too perfect, not at all saccharine, you’ll hear echoes of mountain gospel, street corner doo-wop, and classic soul. Accompanied by just a banjo and a guitar, it’s haunting. Fired by the band, it’s a full tilt revival.

Nero and Russell are most at home on the road - pick almost any night in the next two years and you can bet they will be in some festival, theater, pub, VFW hall, roller rink (they wish) or living room, dovetailing their voices, singing their songs of hope, despair, love.... and electric seahorses. And honey bee apocalypses. And ice cream. It's familiar and strange stuff - the everyday and the magical. Come see ‘em, they won't be hard to find.

"Roots music made in heaven... completely different than anything else you've heard" "No Depression"

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