Boister

Two sets: 8 p.m. & 9:30 p.m.
Tickets: $15 each set or $25 for both

Boister recorded their latest CD with the legendary Jim Dickinson in Mississippi. New songs include "Some Moths Drink the Tears of Elephants," "We Dance in The Cellars in Wartime," and "Brach's Hearts."

At the invitation of legendary producer Jim Dickinson, Watts and Boister traveled to Mississippi in the summer of 2008 to record SOME MOTHS DRINK THE TEARS OF ELEPHANTS at Dickinson's Zebra Ranch studio. Dickinson, who has worked with the likes of Bob Dylan, The Replacements, Big Star, and Aretha Franklin, was blown away by the sessions. "I've recorded stranger music, but none better," he says, pointing to Limes and Old House, and a version of Song of the Eighth Elephant (lyrics by Bertold Brecht) as particular favorites. "This music is virtually unclassifiable, but it will connect with anyone who appreciates a band that can reference Edith Piaf and Captain Beefheart in the same set," he says. National Book Award winner John Barth calls the album "haunting....like Dylan with estrogen."

Some Moths represents something of a departure for the group, as Watts stripped much of the material down to its melodic and lyrical core. The masterful banjo playing of Curt Heavey, which Dickinson likens to flamenco, was added to instrumentation that already included bass clarinet, trombone, guitar, piano, bass, accordion, and drums.

Returning to An Die Musik, Boister will play music from all six of their studio albums.

Over the past few years, Boister has been featured on NPR (the segment Music from Madness is archived at www.npr.org), played The Kennedy Center, The World Cafe, and the Toronto NXNE festival, and earned a great deal of critical acclaim.