DELICATE STEVE

(((folkYEAH!))) presents critically-acclaimed songwriter and guitarist Delicate Steve!Wednesday, November 19thDoors: 7pm / Show: 8pm$20 in advance / $25 day of the show21+*Tickets on sale Friday, July 27th at 10am PT**All sales are final - no refunds*Avoid scammers! Only purchase tickets from moesalley.com or ticketweb.com========DELICATE STEVESteve Marion, the critically acclaimedand completely wordlesssongwriter and guitarist known as Delicate Steve, has unveiled a new album called Delicate Steve Sings. Is the album title a reference to the instantly recognizable voice of his guitar? Does he actually sing this time? Has he not been singing all along? Thats the crux of SingsMarion is the rare guitarist where you can put on any of his records and know exactly whos playing. In an indie rock landscape stuffed end-to-end with guitars and amplifiers, nobody else sounds like this.That unique voice has kept Steve busy in an unpredictable variety of settings. The sheer spread of his work outside his own recordscollaborating with Miley Cyrus and Paul Simon, playing in Amen Dunes and the Black Keys, and being sampled by Kanyedoesnt mean Steves a chameleon. It means hes singular. One night while on a trip to Greece, Marion looked out over the sea while listening to Willie Nelsons pop standards record Stardust, a cosmic epiphany washing over him about what his next record could be. Delicate Steve Sings is a record centered on channeling iconic voices with his guitar. In doing so, Marion is casting himself in the role of iconic singers like Willie who make standards their own. In the process, he reveals just how singular (dare we say iconic) that voice is. The guitar sings these songssmoothly, sweetly, boldly, and on its own terms. Recorded with Jonathan Rado on bass, Kosta Galanopolous on drums, Renata Zeiguer providing strings, and co-writer Elliot Bergman, you can hear this team of exceptional musicians approach the album with the same smooth reverence youd hear on something like Willies classic. Still, theres a requisite subversiveness to what Marions doing herethis isnt a full-on standards album. Hes got original songs with titles that suggest they might be new recordings of classics. Ill Be There is smooth like a lost Bill Withers track; Easy for You isnt the Elvis song of the same name, but theres a hint of the king in there all the same.