Anais Mitchell & AJ Roach April 19, 2009

Righteous Babe artist Anais Mitchell headlines and AJ Roach makes his Boston debut. Anaïs Mitchell is a bundle of contradictions. She has the earthiness of Shawn Colvin, the child-like bite of Joanna Newsom, and the urban jumpiness of Ani DiFranco. Her lyrics are sprinkled with rosy similes while they simultaneously touch on everything from politics to literature to mythology. A. J. Roach, whose style has been described as “southern gothic gospel,” has traveled over half-a-million miles and played nearly 1,000 shows in a dozen countries. A.J. was raised in the deep hollows of mountainous Scott County, Virginia, home of such legendary acts as The Carter Family and the Stanley Brothers where he was fed a steady diet of traditional mountain music that strongly flavors his own vivid and haunting, yet contemporary, tunes that are woven together with modern imagery and instrumentation.

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