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Malcolm Holcolmbe at Johnny's Speakeasy

This tour promoting his latest album, Come Hell or High Water is trademark Malcolm: chiseled out of a life abundant in both hard times and sweet ones. He was born and raised in these hills, learned to play the flat-top guitar with a local folk group and woodshedded on stages at dance halls, county fairs and community centers throughout the region. He left for a spell, winding up in Nashville and signing a record deal with Geffen that exposed him to a wider audience, but ever since he came back home, hes been content to do his own thing, earning admiration from contemporaries like Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris and drawing comparisons to everyone from the late Townes Van Zandt to Bruce Springsteen for the way he paints vivid portraits with his songs, turning them into haunting, brooding, moving affairs. There's an ache of loveliness and loneliness, of torment and hope, threaded through each of the 13 tracks on his latest, all of them crafted with the celebrated roots-music couple Iris DeMent and Greg Brown.
As exquisite as both guests sound, however, its Malcolms roughhewn and ragged voice that cuts through ya like a frozen butter knife, to borrow a line from Old North Side, one of the new records easy-like-Sunday-morning grooves. Its a song of snapshots as only Malcolm can take them gas-guzzling rustbucket JFK on the stickhouse mantle the old mans porch images trumping narrative, a glimpse inside the flurried hurricane of the songwriters mind.
This world is full of goodness and a lot of positivity, but it seems like I can relate to the underdog and the downtrodden, for obvious reasons, he says. Those types of songs seem to strike a nerve more deeply than the Yellow Brick Road, because I think its a struggle for all of us to try to do the next right thing. Some people have the spiritual chemistry to be able to achieve that more easily than others, but I think we all struggle with getting up in the morning and trying to live in our own skin.

This is definitely a Must See.

Doors open at 7 pm.
Show starts at 8 pm.

This show will require using the shuttle service provided by Johnnys Speakeasy to and from the show.

Please drop your passenger(s) off at Johnnys where they can secure seats; then drive back to Plum Market and wait for the shuttle back.

Plum Market is located in the Maple Village Shopping Center at the corner of Maple & Dexter.