While the rest of the bars in Boston are loading in kegs of green light beer and working on pouring their perfect pint of Guinness, Loretta’s Last Call will be slinging Lonestars and well whiskey to the sad songs of Hank Williams brought to you by our friends at the kick ass series “For the Sake of the Song” and New England to Nashville. The two entities have teamed up in the past for great events and this one should be no different. Coupling artists that may be on the slightly more commercial side of country with those with Americana and American roots leanings, sharing audiences and a common respect for the man, the myth, the legend that is good ol’ Hank.
The backing band alone is reason enough to dig your car, bike or front stoop out and get down to Lansdowne for this one with an all star cast of players including ‘Sake of’ founder Patrick Coman, 6 string slinger Chris Hersch, Joe Klompus and Michael Bean. The rotating song leads are across the board from red dirt roots to a more pop style including Coman, Martin&Kelly, Houston Bernard, Molly Kupris, Ava Suppelsa, Sam Robbins, Chad Taylor, Adam Fox and Daniel Miller. Houston Bernard and Daniel Bernard took part in a previous collaboration between NETN and FTSOTS in tribute to Jason Isbell and both were fantastic. Given the rest of the line up, we say “get on down and drown your sorrows” with some great tributes to one of the most influential songwriters in American roots music…Hank himself.
Thats Lorettas Last Call, 1 Lansdowne Street in Boston. Tomorrow (3/16) night!