Sundance – Caroline’s Spine
By Saintless. Filed in Uncategorized |
I spent this past weekend at Sundance, and will be seeing a few movies later this week. I’m guest-writing for Park City Voyeur. Here is the first of the articles for the Voyeur:
Jimmy Newquist, lead singer for the band Caroline’s Spine, played acoustic on Sunday evening at the Star Bar. He will be returning Monday night, January 19, with the whole band.
If you aren’t familiar with the music of Caroline’s Spine, there are a few songs that are not to be missed. His song “Sullivan” is the true story of the five Sullivan brothers lost during WWII. He recently played this song at the opening of the Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum in Waterloo, with the Sullivan brothers’ family in attendance. Crowd favorites also include “Work Song”, often known as “The Ice Cream Song”, and “Varsity Blues” from the title track of the movie with the same name.
Jimmy Newquist has an amazing voice that almost anyone will fall in love with. You may find yourself singing along after the first verse of many songs, because the band really knows how to excite the crowd, and pull everyone into the songs they play.
The free show begins at 9 PM at the Star Bar, with the local band Jack Jones opening.
I’ll try to post a link to the Park City Voyeur once it’s live on their site.
I also had the chance to see a longer acoustic show on Thursday at Allure, in Sandy. My friend Maria turned me onto the band a while back, and I intend to see the band whenever they come to Utah. Thursday I met the wife of Jack Jones’ lead singer, Dustan Neil. Ginger, Dustan’s wife, talked to us for a bit after Jimmy’s show. She’s pretty excited that the Jack Jones band is able to open for Caroline’s Spine when they play in Utah.
Is it just me, or is music more fun when you’ve met the people behind it?
Update: Link to article on Park City Voyeur.
Monday, January 19th 2009 at 2:07 pm |
P.S. This was my 500th blog. I’ve been saving #500 for a political one that’s been in progress for weeks, but it will take about another 2 hours to finish, so I gave up, and decided to move forward with my Sundance series, making Caroline’s Spine the topic of 500.
Monday, January 19th 2009 at 2:36 pm |
Loved the blog!!! I am so glad you got to go yesterday too. I love his music and yes music in general is more fun when you’ve met the people behind it.
Now I just have to make sure you get to see Michael Franti and Spearhead , you are going to like them too I am sure.