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Monday, November 17, 2008
Weekend! Ben Sollee Sets Sights on Hawthorne Theater this Saturday
Posted by Ryan J. Prado on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:23 PM
The indelible cello skill of songwriter and virtuoso Ben Sollee will be on display this Saturday, November 22nd at the Hawthorne Theater. Sollee's latest full-length Learning To Bend (not to mention his EP released this year, Something Worth Keeping, which featured My Morning Jacket's Jim James), exhibits diverse arrangements, with both jam-worthy compositions and folk-ish storytelling tendencies to reveal a tender and hugely talented songsmith (see Sollee's diss track "Dear Kanye" for further immersion of his worldly awareness, not to mention his apparent brass pair of balls!).
Sollee's ambitions have yielded him accolades like being named one of NPR's "Top Ten Unknown Artists of 2007" and PASTE's 25 Best of What's Next in September of this year, along with having been coupled with equally adventuresome musicians Otis Taylor and with the Sparrow Quartet (featuring banjo wizard Bela Fleck).
If any of you regulars to the Hawthorne Theater are anxious to give your pit skills a rest, and hold deep down an affinity for eccentric songwriting (or even harness the Gothic morbidity inherent in listening to anything with a lead cello), get the hell down to the corner of 39th and Hawthorne this Saturday.
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