Monday, March 28, 2011
Redbird
Live at the Café Carpe (Signature Sounds)
Redbird is a rare creature: a very part-time
"souper" group cooked up on a common tour but gelled as a delicious goulash at
Café Carpe, the beloved restaurant-music venue in Fort Atkinson that helped
birth the careers of all three of the group's singer-songwriters. Peter
Mulvey's voice is like a loofah bar on your neck and brain, Jeffrey Foucault's
creaks like the broken door to your heart and Kris Delmhorst's is melted-cheese
luscious. Amid them, guitarist David Goodrich sparkles. They're soulful and so
laid-back they might've actually been dangling their feet in the Rock River
outside the cafe. They toss out brilliant originals, folk-country covers, Tin
Pan Alley standards, troubadour odes from a misty past and a famous Milwaukee
beer song.



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