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Subject: Kirk Rundstrom (guitar/singer/frontman of Split Lip Rayfield) Tours Alaska in August!!! Author: Jeff Stepp [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 22:37:44 07/19/02 Fri Last summer, bluegrass badasses Split Lip Rayfield toured Alaska and wowed folks in Fairbanks, Talkeetna, and Homer. SLR is now kaput, but the main force of the band, Kirk Rundstrom, is returning to Alaska in August to demonstrate just how tough a solo performer can be: Sun Aug 11 Fairbanks @ The Marlin Mon Aug 12 Fairbanks @ The Marlin Tue Aug 13 TBA Wed Aug 14 Healy @ The Totem Inn Thu Aug 15 Talkeetna @ Fairview Inn Fri Aug 16 Girdwood @ Max's Sat Aug 17 Homer @ Alice's Sun Aug 18 TBA In addition to his three albums with Split Lip Rayfield, Kirk has released two solo albums and has two new albums in the bag: one solo and one with his new band, Grizzly, that Kirk promises will be "the most badass bluegrass band ever." Selections from a record review from rockzilla.net: Kirk Rundstrom: Wicked Savior ... Never has a surlier, more don't-mess-with-me-if-you-know-what's-good-for-you set of songs been written in the country genre. Mr. Rundstrom spews forth an intense litany of bank robberies, murders, villains on the run, bad women with knives, dangerous mixtures of alcohol and controlled substances, wrecked homes, catastrophic ass-whuppin's -- and gospel musings. Stand aside, Tim McGraw, your Rodeo Drive wardrobe might get spattered with stuff that won't come out in the dry cleaning if you get too close to this stuff ... ... An amazing creative invention, "Wicked Savior" certainly is nothing mainstream country radio would come into contact with unless plenty of music condoms, rubber gloves and powerful antibiotics were readily available and a team of surgeons was standing by. It's way too weird and has too much of a backwoods "Deliverance" vibe for rock stations (who are probably in a bigger musical rut than even country radio). It would scare the pants off of folk music traditionalists and most of it is too off-beat and intense for your easy-going, good-timing Americana stations. Only the most open formatted and intellectually broad-minded disc jockeys will be airing this one, and that's almost criminal, akin to making a big to-do about Andy Warhol's painted soup cans while ignoring Picasso's "Guernica.." [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]