I know the work-week has just begun and but I’m already mapping out my upcoming week in music.  One of my planned stops around the Charlottesville music scene this week will find me heading downtown to The Box (formerly The Atomic Burrito) to catch a sweet three-band bill on Wednesday, August 6. 

The line-up includes special guest opener Joe Pollock (Jay Pun of Lasko & Pun called Pollock “one to watch” in the Charlottesville music scene), Panther Burn (led by Phillip St. Ours on guitar and vocals and featuring Aaron Farrington on bass), and headlining act Keith Morris and the Crooked Numbers (whose debut album Songs from Candyapolis from late 2007 is still one of the finest albums I’ve heard in quite some time.  You can read my review of Candyapolis here.)

[Keith Morris photo from the artist’s MySpace]

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Keith Morris is the pied-piper in reverse.  His music takes you into town, not away from it.  He leads the parade.  He is the grand marshall of a procession of song.  And behind him his band plays in time with clocks that have the most magnificent hands. 

There’s Jeff Romano who has his own float outfitted with guitars, a piano, an organ, and a string of sleigh bells.  There’s Jennifer Morris with angelic voice and Morwenna Lasko with her own angel-voiced violin.  Paul Curreri strums a guitar and sings in tune while Devon Sproule throws candy-coated verse to the folks lining Main Street.  Spencer Lathrop plays drums, Brandon Collins on cello, Sandy Gray on electric guitar, and a choir of singers in robes clap hands and shout in key.  And there’s a rabbit in a human suit or is it the other way around?  And at the end of the line, which is only a glass half-empty way of saying: at the head of the line, is a princess with ruby cheeks and a magical wand who plays the role of Santa Claus in this Macy’s Day parade. 

This is the scene on the cobblestoned streets of Candyapolis, a town where there’s a celebration every day and reverance by night, and it’s Keith Morris who leads us all through the Songs from Candyapolis. »Read More

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