Ben Crum of Great Lakes Covers Herman Dune

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Ben Crum of Great Lakes Covers Herman Dune

Published Wednesday, April 25, 2007 by Jeff | E-mail this post

Ben Crum of Great Lakes and The Ladybug Transistor will be performing a set of songs in a CD release party Thursday night for David Wingo's Ola Podrida. This will be taking place in Brooklyn's Union Hall. He writes:

Hi Friends,

Last summer I played at a festival in Norway with a french band called Herman Dune. I was pretty blown away by the songs.

I assume that you've heard of old records like "Buck Owens Sings the Songs of Harlan Howard" and "Hank Snow sings Lefty Frizzell." (OK, I made that last one up.) Well, in a gesture of somewhat pointless lo-concept absurdity, tomorrow night at Union Hall I'll be performing a set of YaYa's songs as part of an evening celebrating the release of David Wingo's wonderful new Ola Podrida record.

I go on at 8:30, and I just might be joined by the improvisational talents of Kyle Forester and Jeff Baron. David's band takes the stage at 10:30, after the woman from the Devics [Sara Luv] does a set. Maybe I'll see some of you there.

with love, Ben

Heads up, folks! You can check out the MySpace page for Herman Dune here. Great Lakes' page is here of course.