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July 25-31, 2002
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Fast Horse Summer Hootenanny
When Barrett Martin, Peter Buck and Scott McCaughey took their bands on the road in 1997, they called their posse the Magnificent Seven. They were so tight, it was hard to tell where one group ended and the next began -- no mean feat when you've got an instrumental ethno-jazz supergroup (Tuatara), moody popsters (The Minus 5) and a sad-sack singer-songwriter (Mark Eitzel). They've upped the ante with the Fast Horse Summer Hootenanny, which replaces Eitzel with elder bluesman CeDell Davis and adds Martin's Wayward Shamans. Buck and McCaughey each pull their weight in three of the four groups, but Martin is the collective's mainstay -- the ex-Screaming Trees drummer plays throughout the four-hour show -- which is only fair, considering he and fellow Shaman Joe Cripps run Fast Horse Recordings. Tuatara's latest, Cinemathique, is made of the same spooky-soundtrack stuff as their first two, while Wayward Shamans' Alchemy mixes that formula into a base of field recordings from Africa and South America. (That The Minus 5 come with nothing new to promote is not for lack of trying; Mammoth records recently shelved their collaboration with Wilco.) Live, they'll surely kick it up a notch or seven, and nothing would be out of character for this seasoned crew, which just kept playing when Buck's R.E.M. bandmate Mike Mills jumped onstage at the TLA last time around.
Sat., July 27, 8 p.m., $16-$20, Wayward Shamans, CeDell Davis, The Minus 5 and Tuatara, The TLA, 334 South St., 215-336-2000, www.electricfactory.com.
