Lisa Denton and Barry Courter
BARRY COURTER: Lisa, there are some pretty good live music shows featuring some familiar names on the calendar this week. Songbirds has a couple of interesting shows. Local jazz singer Robin Grant is doing a Valentine's Day show there Wednesday, and Kathy Mattea returns there on Friday. She's doing something called "The Acoustic Living Room," meaning the image projected on the screen behind her will make it feel like everybody is in a living room listening to music. I wonder if her living room has a bunch of clothes that need folding thrown all over the chairs and couch like mine. Now, that would be familiar.
LISA DENTON: And newspapers scattered about. And the shoes I wore to work kicked under the coffee table. Yeah, I'd have to pick up if they put a camera in my living room.
I've always liked Mattea. Such a pure, smooth voice. She's been doing these shows for a while now with Bill Cooley, her longtime collaborator.
And Grant's show is a cool idea for anyone still making Valentine's Day plans. Which I'm betting includes you.
BARRY: I have been thinking about making plans actually. I might pick up the living room. Not sure though.
Revelry Room is busy this week as well. They have The Lone Bellow on Thursday, Fruition on Friday and Departure, a Journey tribute act, on Saturday. And I'm also fairly excited that Todd Snider returns to town with a show at Walker Theatre on Saturday. He is always a colorful interview and performer, because you just never know what he might say or do.
LISA: Jim Brickman is also coming back for "An Evening of Romance" at the Tivoli Theatre on Friday. He's a nice guy, and hearing him perform "Valentine" is about as traditional as you can get for a V-Day celebration.
But if you want to shake things up, then I would have to recommend My Bloody Valentine, a haunted house with a Valentine's theme. Why hasn't anyone thought of this before? It'll be this weekend at The Haunted Hilltop in Harrison.
I just hope the resident ghost at my house, Miss Jane, doesn't hear about this. We get along fine at the moment, but I wouldn't want any blood-curdling things to start happening.
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Contact Barry Courter at bcourter@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6354. Contact Lisa Denton at ldenton@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6281.