Sunday, August 06, 2017

Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets @ Lincoln Center

Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets; Cut Worms
@ Lincoln Center
New York, NY - August 5, 2017

Nick Lowe brought those surf rock scallywags Los Straitjackets to Lincoln Center Out of Doors as the bandshell to put an old time rock n roll and country stomp on his classics from Jesus of Cool and Labor of Lust and elsewhere, including "Half a Boy and Half a Man" and that song asking what's so funny about you know what and all that.

Los Straitjackets were also given free reign to do their instrumental level best and kicked off the encore with the 60's Batman theme the way it was meant to be played.

Cut Worms out of Brooklyn very clearly take from the Nick Lowe school of songcraft, playing devout 60's power pop of the British and American variety, a slight hint of 70's country and just straight up Nick Lowe style work which exactly pulls from those sources.