What will come of Lucky and the missing banditos? After the sun has given up the day and the first stars are a’twinklin their eyes open, the night-crawling cowboys start kicking up dust and firing bullets in the sky. Better you keep your pistolas loose in the holster.

On August 14, The Cowboy Show comes to town, bringing together three Los Angeles bands with spurs aimed at the bucking bronco, the dusty corral, and the hillbilly heartbreaker deep within.

 

THE COWBOY SHOW

 

 

 

Amanda Jo Williams‘ voice rises a few helium-affected keys above June Carter’s, as she straps a little guitar to the broken fences of her country heart. She’ll be accompanied by a tap-dancing percussionist and special guests.

Amanda Jo Williams – “Beat Eats Me”

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Crooked Cowboy & Freshwater Friends performs a howling array of desert soul that’ll give rattlesnakes a better use for shaking their spiny tailfeathers.

Crooked Cowboy – “Sally”

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Horse Thieves rides in, sharp as a gang of banditos, with a late-night saloon sound that crackles like a fire against the yelping of gray coyotes.

Horse Thieves – “Pillar of Fire”

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Venture into a re-imagined New West. El diablo awaits.

Posted on Thursday, August 6th, 2009.