jenny lewis at birchmere....asdja;leI(#*342

[bigyellow100]

who's going?  because i am not.  i am jealous of those who are going to go to that show.  i am in love with jenny lewis.  i hate school.  reading and writing papers are for suckers.  i guess that makes me a sucker.  i hate charlottesville, democratic consolidation, and southern europe.  at least ill be seeing neko case in 3 weeks down here.  if you are going, could you please get some pictures?  maybe some audio?  or video?  maybe you be betty?  i remember you got some good pics of past rilo kiley concerts.  thank you all.  
 
 love, bigyellow100.
 
 ps stay in school kids, it is good for you.  it is better than an apple a day.

[you be betty]

was planning on it, but speaking of school; my mom decided last weekend that i wasn't allowed to go.  i was surprised, because my mother, who has driven me six hours to see Rilo Kiley, and taken me to see them in California and cited them as "the one band i liked that didn't give her a headache," had said yes initially, and then no.  report cards aren't for another five ish days after this show, which means it's a no go.  it sucks...i have a friend who has a slot on that tour, and i was really looking forward to seeing him play.  
 
 to top it all off i had an opportunity at free Elected tickets yesterday.
 
 
 but hey, those are the breaks.

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[samanthaalison]

I'm going.

[I Dare]

I went to the show last night at Recher Theatre.
 Twas good.

[amnesiac]

I'll be there.
 
 This has probably been asked before, but how is the food? Are there better places that are walking distance from the club?

[kosmo vinyl]

yes re: the food... i believe the consensus is that the food is over priced bar fare, kinda sucky like a bennigans

[amnesiac]

Thanks for the warning. Any recommendations for places nearby?

[Lamb007]

I'll be there. Agreed it's wise to steer clear of Birchmere food. You'd be surprised how quickly your tab can hit three digits if you get a couple plates of food and a few rounds of drinks. After the show, Ye Olde Waffle Shoppe across the street is decent and cheap.

[bigyellow100]

how was the show?

[jude376]

Jenny sounded fabulous as always. Although I was hoping they would play Handle With Care, my favorite Travleling Wilburys song ever - which they cover on the album, for those folks who haven't heard it yet.
 
 I also thought Johnathan Rice was charming. You know  he and Jenny are dating? He's practically 10 years younger than her. Go Jenny!
 
 What did people think of Whispertown2000? I only caught a few songs.

[groovyside]

reviewed by j.freedom last week:
 
   

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/24/AR2006032402179.html
 
 Jenny Lewis in the Country of Her Soul
 
 By J. Freedom du Lac
 Washington Post Staff Writer
 Saturday, March 25, 2006; Page C01
 
 The doors swung open, and out sashayed the beguiling Jenny Lewis, trailed by twin raven-haired backup singers, Chandra and Leigh Watson. "Run, devil, run," the three of them sang, belting high-lonesome harmonies a cappella and sans microphones as they walked onto the Birchmere band shell stage.
 
 The entrance-as-exorcism had a chilling effect -- in the best possible way: Not even 30 seconds into the show Thursday, Lewis and her sidekicks had already given the crowd goose bumps.
 
 Rapture was soon to follow in what was essentially Lewis's coming-out party as a country-soul chanteuse.
 
 Though she's considered indie-rock royalty for her roles in Rilo Kiley and the side project Postal Service with Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard, Lewis, at 30, has taken a sharp turn -- down the dusty back roads of musical Americana -- on her stunning new semi-solo album, "Rabbit Fur Coat." (It's a solo CD in everything but name: While it's credited to "Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins," Lewis sings most of the lead parts, plays guitar throughout and wrote all of the material, save for a cover of the Traveling Wilburys' "Handle With Care.")
 
 Gospelly, deliciously twangy and at times even torchy, "Rabbit Fur Coat" is loaded with conversational, bittersweet songs that echo Loretta Lynn, Laura Nyro and Patsy Cline, not to mention the neo-Americana siren Neko Case. The evocative tracks have a certain intimacy that Rilo Kiley's songs often lack, and so Tuesday, Lewis eschewed that band's catalogue to focus on her rootsy new material.
 
 Backed by a superlative band that featured Lewis's boyfriend, Johnathan Rice, on acoustic guitar, Rilo Kiley's Jason Boesel on drums, Michael Runion on bass and Dave Scher on lap-steel guitar and Wurlitzer piano, Lewis showed off a supple, crystalline alto as she sang of heartbreak, family dysfunction and, especially, spirituality: The opening "Run Devil Run" was followed immediately by "The Big Guns," a rhythmic boot-stomper in which Lewis, over aggressive acoustic guitar finger-picking, wearily declared, "I've won hundreds at the track, but I'm not betting on the afterlife."
 
 On the chorus-free country-rock number "The Charging Sky," backed by Scher's mournful lap-steel lines, Lewis seemed to change her mind, singing: "It's a sure-fire bet that I'm gonna die, so I'm taking up praying on Sunday nights." But, she added: "It's not that I believe in your almight, but I might as well. As insurance or bail."
 
 In the churchy "Born Secular," over a stripped-down drum loop and atmospheric Wurlitzer chords, Lewis and the Watson Twins sang that "God goes where he wants, and who knows where he is?" At which point, Lewis, her voice reaching higher than at any other point during the performance, alone declared: "Not in me!"
 
 Or is he? After a doo-wop cover of the Shirelles' defiant old girl-group song, "I Met Him on a Sunday," Lewis concluded the hour-long show with a spirited reading of the gospel song "Cold Jordan," whose let-Jesus-lead lyrics she sang between sips of a Corona.
 
 Religion isn't necessarily a new lyrical concern for Lewis -- she co-authored Rilo Kiley's "The Absence of God." But questions of spirituality abound on "Rabbit Fur Coat," giving the album and Lewis's current tour a confessional, decidedly personal feel. Ditto for songs like the loping, heart-sore "Happy" and the stark, elegiac "It Wasn't Me," both of which were standouts on stage.
 
 But the highlight of the show was "Rabbit Fur Coat's" title track, an allegorical lullaby about a girl whose mother's greed leads to a lifetime of suffering for both. A former child actor, Lewis has insisted in interviews that the song isn't autobiographical. Still, singing alone, on an otherwise emptied stage, in a slightly hushed voice, she lost herself in the story, sounding vulnerable and fragile as she worked languorously through the poignant lyrics.
 
 The performance was nothing short of breathtaking and provided even more goose bumps in a night filled with them.