As you may know, I will soon embark on a brief tour of Norway, Holland and Belgium. I am extremely excited to announce that I will be accompanied by a full band in Norway! The band will feature Mr. Daniel Eriksen and his wonderful band.

 

NORWAY:

Friday, 9 October

On the 11th of this September you will once again find me onstage in Alphabet City, USA. I will be hosting another triple bill that you might best wish to avoid. Obviously I can't force you to stay at home but should you decide to venture down to the corner of Ninth St. and Avenue C you can't say that you weren't warned.

Curtis P. Eller sharing the stage with
Robert Rial & Pinataland
Friday, September 11th @ 8:00pm
Banjo Jim's
700 E. 9th St.,NYC
(212)777-0869



For more details visit me online:
http://www.curtiseller.com

And now a few choice words about the evening's entertainers:

8:00pm Robert Rial
www.myspace.com/robertrialandbakelite78
Mr. Rial turned up in Chicago sometime around the turn of the century with a bullhorn and a banjo and some strange, antique notions about plastic. He has since been chased West to Seattle where he's been foisting his routine on the citizens of the Pacific coast. Perhaps realizing that there is no further West he can run, he's decided to try his luck in old New York. Consider yourself warned.

Here's a review of a recent show that compares me to a right-handed Darryl Strawberry and says I'm funnier than Howard Zinn! I sure wish that was true.
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CURTIS ELLER @ THE DELANCEY (NYC)
“This may be an asshole thing to say, but I didn’t expect him to be so good,” marveled the next act, banjo rocker Curtis Eller, without a trace of sarcasm. And then took the show to the next level. With his banjo hooked up to a wireless transmitter, Eller refused to stand in one place, alternating between a high-kicking Dizzy Dean stance and a righthanded Darryl Strawberry crouch, running the length of the floor past the bar, playing the piano with his ass and keeping the audience riveted. There may be no better lyricist out there right now – a set of Curtis Eller songs is just about as good and accurate a look at American history over the past two hundred years as A People’s History of the United States, and it’s a whole lot funnier. Referencing Elvis twice, Nixon several times, the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, the Las Vegas mob, Boss Tweed, doping in horseracing, Pentecostal rites and the death penalty, he ran through a mix of older songs and tunes from his most recent cd Wirewalkers and Assassins (which may prove over time to be a classic). Taking Up Serpents took a vividly literate look at how the ruling classes keep the lower ones divided and conquered; Sugar for the Horses examined the consequences of what happens when people like Boss Tweed and Elvis are separated at birth (that’s a quote). Three More Minutes with Elvis paradoxically worked equally well as wistful ballad and caustic portrayal of over-the-top idol worship; After the Soil Fails packed just about every contributing factor to the coming apocalypse into three furiously catchy minutes of, minor-key noir blues. The crowd sang along on the bittterly tongue-in-cheek Come Back to the Movies, Buster Keaton and on the gently haunting closing number, Save Me Joe Louis, Eller sinking to his knees and whispering the outro like the song’s condemned man in the gas chamber."

You can read the whole review online here:
http://lucidculture.wordpress.com/

My tune "After The Soil Fails" made Lufthansa's current inflight playlist.  Will the Jack Ruby and Richard Nixon references make any sense to the German passengers?