There were two very excellent articles about my residency at the Redwood Bar in LA. Here's the link to the Pasadena Weekly article and the full text of the LA weekly one....
Pasadena Weekly:
http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/cms/story/detail/keeping_it_anything_but_low_key/6663/LA Weekly (top picks) :
LADYFINGERS at REDWOOD...
“I’ve got to lose some weight before the wedding, dude/I’ve got to practice my handshake . . . All my friends are geniuses, and they all respect me,” Adam Weiner, a.k.a. the one-man band Ladyfingers, brags/confesses on his new self-released CD,
My Handbook. The New Yorker has “no management, label affiliation, booking agent or personal stylist,” and, as he makes clear on the defiant folk-funk rant “Scoliosis in Secaucus” (“Don’t entertain me/I can entertain myself”), he is a self-contained, self-aware and self-propelled song factory, obviating the need for rock critics. He’s a little bit like the early, pre-cute Jonathan Richman, with such sarcastic lyrics as “I’m happy listening to lite FM” and “There’s a World War II memorial underneath your dress . . . and I ain’t impressed,” but Mr. Ladyfingers sluices his raw ballads and electric-guitar-backed shuffles with a mournful beauty that goes beyond simple jokiness. He’ll be here all week (nightly, through December 5), but please don’t try the veal. It’s been through enough already. (Falling James)
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