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Ben Kweller Brings A Little Country To A City of Rock N' Roll
BY Aubrey Nicole FOR LA2DAY.COM Jun 22, 2009
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.
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.
THE DETAILS:
Ben Kweller
www.kweller.net
The El Rey Theatre
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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