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"The mysterious vaudeville man returns!"
No one knows where he came from or who he really is. Leon Redbone wears dark glasses and maintains an air of mystery. (Some say Frank Zappa never really died . . .) But when it comes to Redbone's music, there's no mystery at all. Redbone finds the thread that connects the various genres of 1920s and 1930s music: Fats Waller's jazz, the country music of Jimmie Rodgers, blues, crooner pop, and the strange tail end of vaudeville minstrelsy heard in the music of the Georgia yodeler Emmett Miller, the originator of "Lovesick Blues." In the raspy but strangely intoxicating voice and the calmly bemused attitude of Leon Redbone, the music of the Victrola era becomes modern and timeless. This has been a hot ticket in recent years at The Ark, so please plan ahead!
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