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Ben Kweller Brings A Little Country To A City of Rock N' Roll

Ben Kweller's been playing music for the last twenty-one years, a fact that becomes apparent from the second he bounds out on stage. A confident and playful Kweller played to a not quite full El Rey Theatre this past Friday night. He started at his beginnings, warming up the crowd with a tune off 2002's Sha Sha, before launching into a few songs from his just-released Changing Horses.

Kweller maintained a relatively fast-paced show and his solid vocals called up memories of Tom Petty and Bob Dylan but all in a way that felt calm and uniquely his own.

Ben Kweller Fans

Changing Horses has a decidedly more country feel than his previous work and although I was in the middle of Los Angeles on Wilshire Boulevard, I didn't feel a moment past my last country concert at The Stage in Nashville, Tennesee.

I snapped this Polaroid during his bluesy, lullaby-like Sawdust Man.

Aubrey's Kweller Polaroid

THE DETAILS:

Ben Kweller
www.kweller.net

The El Rey Theatre

http://www.theelrey.com/

5515 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Story by Aubrey Nicole.
Photos by Stacy Keck: stacymariesd@gmail.com
Polaroid by Aubrey Nicole.

 

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