Charleston City Paper: SPOLETO 2006: Jazz, Blues, & Roots Music ...
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Topic: Blues
Sort Desciption: Charleston Music Hall. Printed from the Charleston City Paper website: charleston.gyrosite.com. POSTED ON MAY 31, 2006:. JAZZ, ROOTS, & BLUES MUSIC ...
Content Inside: 09/19/2006 03:44 PM Charleston City Paper: SPOLETO 2006: Jazz, Blues, & Roots Music: JAZZ, ROOTS, & BLUES MUSIC | Shatner He Aint of 2 http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/gyrobase/PrintFriendly?oid=oid%3A13680 Daniels gets folky and folksier at the Charleston Music Hall Printed from the Charleston City Paper website: charleston.gyrosite.com POSTED ON MAY 31, 2006: JAZZ, ROOTS, & BLUES MUSIC | Shatner He Aint No, Jeff Daniels blows Captain Kirk into outer space By Sara Miller Youre probably scoffing right now, looking at Jeff Daniels familiar mug evoking "singer/songwriter" as he hugs the neck of a guitar, and thinking, "What a novel idea — a movie star with a guitar. Too bad Russell Crowe/Keanu Reeves/Jared Leto have already done it." Well, its too late to pierce Daniels self-deprecating, elephantine hide — in fact, the first song hes played at nearly every show since his musical stage debut in 2000 is a witty little lampoon of himself called "If William Shatner Can, I Can Too," with lyrics like "Russell Crowe was on the Leno show / Singing some song that nobody knows / Hes got an Oscar, now hes got a guitar / Just like that, hes a rock n roll star." "The opener ["Shatner"] is the disclaimer, where I rip on everybody who is in one form of entertainment and then tries to do another," Daniels says, speaking to the CP from his home in small-town Chelsea, Mich. "I remember playing Birdland in New York City. Talk about a tough crowd. Theyre just there to see you blow up; they paid to see a train wreck . before I had even played a note, I said, You guys are already judging me, arent you? Youve already decided, then I launched into Shatner and then I was OK. Had em." Daniels may not be breaking new ground musically with his guy- and-a-guitar melange of blues, folk, and song-storyin, but by all accounts he does a damn fine job in his latest role. Although hes played guitar ...
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