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Mission of Burma, TV Smith and Steve Winwood ride again, plus more
BY CARLY CARIOLI
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So you wanna hear "Academy Fight Song" this weekend? R.E.M. may be too busy playing their own greatest hits — in honor of their new best-of In Time (Warner Bros.) — to get around to reprising their cover of it when they hit the Tweeter Center (508-339-2333) in Mansfield Sunday. Thankfully, Mission of Burma resume their "Inexplicable" reunion shows with a pair of dates within driving distance. They’re at Pearl Street (413-584-7810) in Northampton Friday with garage-punk upstarts Read Yellow, and Saturday they’re at Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel (401-272-5876) in Providence with Daughters and former Adverts frontman TV Smith. Daughters, a newish Providence quintet who squirm and shriek like the bastard kids of Arab on Radar and the Locust, are also on the menu at the Palladium (508-797-9696), in Worcester Tuesday, as the Boston hardcore fiends formerly known as American Nightmare celebrate their first CD as Give Up the Ghost; their We’re Down Til We’re Underground, a hand grenade disguised as a valentine, is just out on Equal Vision. Bleeding fingers and broken guitar strings aren’t just for hardcore kids — bare-knuckled country-folk wayfarer Lucinda Williams has got ’em too on her raw and rocking latest disc, World Without Tears (Lost Highway). She’s at Toad’s Place (203-562-5589) in New Haven, Connecticut, Monday; the Orpheum (617-679-0810) in Boston Tuesday; Merrill Auditorium (207-842-0800) in Portland Wednesday; and at Lupo’s October 10. Her labelmates, a newly re-rootsified edition of alt-country faves the Jayhawks, open all of the above, and also find time to headline their own gigs Sunday at Pearl Street and next Thursday, October 9, at Higher Ground (802-654-8888) in Winooski, Vermont. Steve Winwood isn’t exactly back in the high life again, but his new About Time (on his own Wincraft label), with its jazzy, Latin-tinged R&B, has re-introduced him as a godfather of jam-band nation; he’s out with the North Mississippi Allstars, whose new Polaris (Tone Cool) includes a cover of the late Junior Kimbrough’s "Meet Me in the City," as well as one of the last-ever performances by the late fife-and-drum master Othar Turner. They’re both at the Orpheum on Wednesday; beforehand, the Allstars warm up with headlining gigs Friday at Higher Ground, Sunday at Toad’s Place, and Tuesday at Pearl Street. There’s more Kimbrough on Thickfreakness (Fat Possum) — the latest disc by the immensely soulful Ohio garage/blues duo the Black Keys, who would’ve been his labelmates if he’d lived long enough — in a reworking of Junior’s seminal "Everywhere I Go." The Keys are at the Iron Horse (413-584-0610) in Northampton Monday and at the Paradise (617-562-8800) in Boston Tuesday. Meanwhile, the legendary Bernie Worrell has rejoined George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic after a two-decade sabbatical that included a stint in Talking Heads; the reconstituted P-Funk are at the Roxy (617-338-ROXY) in Boston Wednesday and at Toad’s Place the following night.
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