New Felice Brothers video :: “Frankie’s Gun” (plus tour dates)

I saw New York’s Felice Brothers perform this weekend at Outside Lands, and what an explosion! I never fancied myself as a massive accordion fan, but yeehaw. It’s all good. Also, any song that has the lyric “Spit make a fender shine, Frankie’s a friend-a-mine / Got me off a bender after long-legged Brenda died” (and isn’t a Dylan song) gets props in my book. See my original write-up about them here, and a slew of headlining tour dates were announced today:

FELICE BROTHERS TOUR

SEPTEMBER 2008
04 – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground
05 – Northampton, MA – Iron Horse
06 – Cambridge, MA – Club Passim
07 – Great Barrington, MA – Club Helsinki
11 – Albany, NY – Linda Norris Auditorium*
12 – Ithaca, NY – Castaways*
13 – Hoboken, NJ – Maxwell’s*
14 – Alexandria, VA – The Birchmere Bandstand*
16 – Atlanta, GA – Smith’s Olde Bar*
18 – Nashville, TN – Exit / In*
19 – Lexington, KY – Christ the King Oktoberfest*
20 – Chicago, IL – Abbey Pub*
21 – Iowa City, IA – The Mill*
23 – Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room*
24 – St. Louis, MO – Billiken Club at St. Louis University (Open to the Public)*
25 – Notre Dame, IN – Legends of Notre Dame (Student’s Only)*
26 – Cincinnati, OH – Midpoint Music Festival at the Know Theater*
27 – Rutland, OH – Reclaim Festival*
29 – Knoxville, TN – Barley’s Taproom*
30 – Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506*

OCTOBER 2008
02 – Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church*
09 – Princeton, NJ – Terrace F. Club (Princeton U – Student’s Only)#
10 РPittsburgh, PA РClub Caf̩#
11 – Louisville, KY – Palace Theatre%
13 РMemphis, TN РHi-Tone Caf̩#
15 – Oxford, MS – Proud Larry’s#
16 – Birmingham, AL – Workplay Theater#
17 – New Orleans, LA – Maple Leaf#
18 – Alexandria, LA – Alexandria Music Project#
22 – West Hollywood, CA – The Troubadour#
23 – San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall#
24 – Portland, OR – Mission Theatre#
25 – Seattle, WA – Chop Suey#
27 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Paladium#
28 РBoulder, CO РFox Theatre & Caf̩#

NOVEMBER 2008
02 – New York, NY – Spiegeltent#

* = w/ A.A. Bondy
# = w/ Deer Tick
% = opening for Old Crow Medicine Show