BeijingDazeTales of Live Music From Beijing's Mostly Underground Rock Scene..

Oct
26thAnd the stompin’ good times go on: The Redbucks Quartet their way at jiangjinjiu

So, you lose your guitar player and one of your lead vocalists/songwriters who happens to be one of the most charismatic persons/entertainers in Beijing and maybe more.. what do you do? If you’re the Redbucks, you shuffle a few things around, drop the mandolin and keep the stompin’ good times going. While Ruby was having fun with the Dancers and the Buzzcocks, yours truly settled on catching some old fashioned hollering courtesy of my favorite ( and only) bluegrass outfit in town. There had been numerous speculations as to whether or not Beijing Daze would ever make it to another Redbucks show after the departure of the lovely and talented Daisy Sweetgrass… and just to prove them wrong, I did! because here at ‘daze headquarters, it’s all about the music man ( using my best Jeff Bridges impersonation) The show is different for sure: the multitude of instruments they used to have on hand brought a certain dimension to a Redbucks show, sometimes a bit too much! now, it’s back down to bare bones basics with fiddle, guitar, banjo and bass or something like that. Some shades of the old bucks are back when Luke handles the singing but the harmonies had to change following the untimely departures and let me tell you folks, that is not necessarily a bad thing. Having lost Daisy, the band no longer has that single focus point that distracted an audience from their other songs.. no matter what they all say, that was the [...]