Arts & Entertainment
ATL Collective presents Jackson Browne's The Pretender - Live at Eddie's Attic!
Doors open at 6:30 pm. Tickets will be $12 at the door.
Established in 2009, the ATL COLLECTIVE seeks to foster the Atlanta music scene by encouraging collaboration between local and national musicians, through a night of musical storytelling that celebrates the artistic integrity of the album. While chart-topping singles and digital downloads have reigned over the music world for the last decade, the album is making a comeback. And the ATL Collective is championing this cause. Every second Wednesday of the month at Eddie's Attic in Decatur, Ga., we create a musical event by covering a classic album and replicating the intimate experience of listening to a record for the first time – going track by track, reading through the liner notes and turning over the record. We enjoy the music for what it is, without distraction, and we want to do the same for all who attend our shows. And to round out each monthly performance, we offer themed food and beverages that reflect an element from the featured album. We aim for the audience to experience the album with all their senses. All proceeds from the shows go to the local musical community, to help our artists succeed and continue to make great music.
During his time at Berklee College of Music, WILL ROBERTSON was asked by his fellow students to contribute to dozens of recording projects as producer, engineer, and performer, and was honored by the faculty with the award of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) scholarship, sponsored by the organization that hosts the Grammy awards. After finishing at Berklee, Will set up shop just north of Cambridge in Somerville, Massachusetts, where he produced local talent and wrote and recorded radio commercials for small businesses in the Boston area. Will also engineered for a variety of clients, including the Boston Choral Ensemble and nascent composer A.J. McCaffrey, who has received fellowships from the Tanglewood and Aspen Music Festivals. In 2003, Will found himself working with Boston artists Grey Star Morning and Tim Williams, whose albums he produced just before pulling anchor andmoving back down south to the Atlanta area. In February 2004, David Berkeley's "Fire Sign," a track that Will produced and performed on, was featured in an episode of the Thursday night primetime CBS drama "Without A Trace." Since moving to Atlanta, Will has performed with, arranged for and recorded a number of regional singer/songwriters, including Arlington Priest, The Brilliant Inventions, Blake Guthrie, Evan McHugh, Nathan Mayberry, Liz Lee, and Mic Levine. Will is an accomplished bassist (both electric and "upright"/double bass), guitarist, and pianist, having played each for at least 16 years. He has played and sung lead and backup with an assortment of bands and ensembles, in styles including rock, folk, blues, musical theater, and classical.
Once half of the acclaimed acoustic duo, The Brilliant Inventions, ELIOT BRONSON - and his burgeoning solo career, seem ripe for a Paul Simon comparison. With a bundle of new material, drawing more on country, folk, and roots rock influences than The Brilliant Inventions ever did; and a top tier band - featuring ex-members of Sugarland and the BoDeans, Eliot Bronson seems poised to eclipse the success of his earlier efforts. Says Jezebel Magazine "Eliot Bronson always seemed destined for bigger things than The Brilliant Inventions." The Washington Post called The Brilliant Invention's music, “clever contemporary acoustic pop that invites comparison to Ben Folds Five and Fountains of Wayne -- literate story-songs at once amusing and moving, with catchy melodic hooks”. The Atlanta Journal Constitution raved, "bright, witty, and Velcro-catchy pop songs." "But a funny thing happened on the way to the top," as Bret Love of Insite Magazine remarked. "At some point after the release of their 2009 album Have You Changed, Lamkin [the other half of TBI] decided the life of a touring artist wasn't for him, leaving the more career-focused Bronson to start over from scratch. If Blackbirds, his debut solo LP, is any indication, it was the best thing that could’ve happened to him." Paste Magazine followed up: "while playing under his own name may not have been the road Bronson originally envisioned for himself, he seems to be that much better because of it." And Georgia Music Magazine decreed "Blackbirds proves Bronson a formidable talent in his own right, ready for the big time all by his damn self!"
Two words to describe SHOOK FOIL is "multi-cultural." Their self-titled debut EP has been described by some music writers as "well-blended." While listening to their music, you will encounter the perfect unions of traditional and not so traditional, English and Spanish, and guitar, drums and bass with recorder, tambourine, and violin. Shook Foil's music manages to bring several worlds together. Sarra Sedghi of The Blue Indian stated, "Shook Foil has an incredible command over an array of instruments and ideas, both traditional and exotic. Singers Aaron Hodgin and Anna Katie Espada, whose voice got me hooked on “Las Palabras,” make getting drawn into Shook Foil easy, and all the tracks flow together really well. A song will begin and you expect it to sound like the others, and then – bam! – you’re hit with something completely foreign. And although Hodgin croons that he’s still “trying to figure out exactly what [he wants] to be,” in the closing track, “Swimming In The Sea,” Shook Foil has created an identity for themselves by dabbling in so many elements rather than focusing on one." They are now touring in support of their latest 2012 release, "Little Significance."
BOOK CLUB, a modern folk quintet founded by Robbie Horlick (of indie rockers Cassavetes), navigates today’s indie-folk sea with a rare honesty and classicism. The band honors the folk tradition, yet is unbound by it; every song is a fresh take on an old history. Anchored by the rich and sweetly-sung co-ed harmonies of Horlick and Leigh Anne Macquarrie, their arrangements range from that of a lone nylon guitar to songs thoughtfully embellished by cello, double bass, pedal steel, melodica, glockenspiel, saxophone, percussion, and more. Paying simultaneous homage to their traditional, and their modern, influences, Book Club draws easy comparisons to She & Him, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and The Dutchess and Duke one minute, and Patsy Cline, The Carter Family, and Fleetwood Mac the next. Ghost, the band’s first LP, released digitally and on limited edition vinyl - and handmade bookmark - on August 2, 2011, sounds like what might result if Lou and Nico were from the South and grew up on Mermaid Avenue, or if Springsteen’s Nebraska were recorded in Nashville. Or, if by some crazy wrinkle in time, Johnny and June grew up listening to Tom Petty and Iron & Wine. The songs on Ghost are pretty and sad, and there is a magic to their orchestration, at times sparse and delicate, at times embellished and blissful.
Timothy Walker is a folk musician from the Atlanta area who performs and writes music under the project alias, THREADBARE, BROTHER. He was formerly involved with his twin sister, Anna Kate Walker, in a project known as Tim & Kate. Timothy explores the beauty of songwriting through lyrical depth and poetic imagery. He is fascinated by the music's propensity to tell stories and convey rich meaning. His songwriting style is influenced by the likes of Ray LaMontange, Sandra McCracken, Mindy Smith, Derek Webb, Patty Griffin, Sufjan Stevens-and of course the folk legend, Bob Dylan. Timothy believes that in the sacredness of language, along with it's literary manifestations. Timothy is particularly fond of novels and poetry. Some of his favorite novelists are John Steinbeck, Flannery O'Connor, and George MacDonald. As far as poets go, there are far too many to mention, but the poetry of the English Romantics has always made his soul rejoice.
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