Performance Date
Sunday, June 1
Evening Concert - Kennedy Outdoor Theater
The Gourds have never
been much on sentiment. Since the band started
defining Gourds Music, as it has come to be known,
with Dem's Good Beeble in 1997 and the quirky
Stadium Blitzer in 1998, they have chugged through
America fueled by music and a near-pathological need
for a good time. And while songwriters Kevin Russell
and Jimmy Smith have written the most dense,
reference-laden country songs of the last 10 years
and almost single-handedly made a place for deep
thought in a genre of "Honky Tonk Badonkadonks" they
have, for the most part, shied away from the
tear-in-my-beer ballads that made country music a
commercial powerhouse over the last 50 years.
For
more information on the Gourds, visit
www.thegourds.com
