Last night I took a road trip. Corky and I hit the road with our friend Janet and headed to Ann Arbor. I love Ann Arbor. I love the restaurants. I love the shopping, especially food shopping. I love the music and events. I love the Ark. I love Jill Sobule and now I love Erin McKeown. I have several of Jill’s CDs but this is the first time I have experienced Erin’s music. They are both smart and funny women and damn good musicians. We had dinner before hand at The Prickly Pear and the blog post on that will follow.
Corky has been a big fan of Jill Sobule and dare I say has had a “bit” of a crush on her! He has been talking about seeing her in person for MONTHS and when we found out about this show, it was immediately written on our calendar. When he tried to get Janet and I to get tickets online 6+ weeks ago we had to laugh and say “I think we will be O.K.”
When Corky and I first started dating there were several CDs that we both had in common. Jill Sobule was one of them. Just in case you are interested, the others were Elvis Costello with the Brodsky Quartet and “If I Were a Carpenter.” One thing we differed on was how we pronounced Ms. Sobule’s name! He pronounced it SObel (“so-bull”) and I pronounced it soBULE (“so-byule”). He ridiculed me over “my error” until I succumbed and I have been pronouncing it “his way” for quite awhile now. Well folks, once again I was correct! On TWO occasions last night we heard her pronounce her name and “So-byule” is correct. We should have just asked our friend Carrie about it, as she knew the real Jill Sobule from her past life at Record Town.
The show was awesome. Corky got his wish…a picture with Jill. Despite a hopefully minor mishap when my camera hit the floor in the restaurant, I was able to capture these pictures:
Corky with Jill after the show.
Erin McKeown and Janet after the show.
Erin and Jill had a great show. I highly recommend seeing them if you have the opportunity. Hopefully they will have a repeat performance of the “folkified” Beyonce tune. “All the single ladies…all the single ladies…” I will never look at Beyonce the same way again!
1 comments:
I LOVE The Ark (and Ann Arbor in general)! When grad school/Lansing is driving me crazy, I make a trip down and try to catch some good music. I've never heard of Jill Sobule, but I'll check her out.
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