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Open Art, Open Mind
Happy 2008, everyone. It's a new year, and we're lucky enough to kick it off with a live performance from Virgil Shaw and the Killer Views. Come join us on Friday, January 11th for a special performance at Gallery 16. Virgil will be playing old and new songs at the opening reception of works by Deborah Oropallo, a digital artist who creates intriguing portraits of people who barely exist. Her new work will be on display at the printshop and gallery through February 16. Virgil's performance kicks off around 5:30 or 6pm on Friday evening and lasts until the baby quiches and Freixenet have been replaced by ghosts. For details, visit the Gallery 16 website or read our tour page.
Praise for "Still Falling" "Mr. Shaw gets his extroverted waltzes and rockers from a honky-tonk somewhere in the "wilderness of this world" that he sings about in his cracked voice. It's a place where the mystic Americana of the Band meets Mr. Shaw's own surreal tales and hard-luck images." — The New York Times "Shaw's second solo album is both well-constructed and full of beautiful abstractions. Weird like Roky Erickson and soulful like Van Morrison, Shaw's lyrics paint fanciful scenes that are loosely encased by clever, mid-tempo arrangements." — Rolling Stone "It makes no difference where Virgil Shaw may lay his head at night, his music does the traveling for him. Still Falling [mixes] Dixieland piano and horns with tunes that sound like they might be tumbling out of a saloon with horses hitched out front... Strangely timeless, Still Falling is a return to a history most of us never knew." — CMJ
"Virgil's songwriting is at the top of its form; painting vivid pictures, recollecting grainy memories, faded epics and otherwise expressing the most heart rending lyrics he's ever written. The melodic hooks are so kindly and accessible without deepening into sappiness — a difficult feat to pull off but with Virg it seems effortless." — Aquarius Records
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