Past Event
Wednesday, April 15, 2015, 8 p.m.
Hopeless Jack & the Handsome Devil
1130 Buenos Avenue, San Diego, 92110
Cost: $8
Hopeless Jack & the Handsome Devil is a guitar-and-drums duo from the Pacific Northwest. There’s a country aspect to this band’s farm-bred folk music, but when they get deep into their own blues mix, the sound comes straight out of an era neither musician could have experienced firsthand — namely, the early days of John Lee Hooker.
No, not the boogie-rock that was made prominent by classic rock titans like Canned Heat, but Hooker’s own swamp delirium, a simple bag of riffs that sound as if culled from malaria dreams, or a week-long bender, or both. Now, imagine Iggy Pop doing this music, and you have an idea of what Hopeless Jack is all about. Garage blues, with tattoos and earrings.
Philosophers Ray Gun also performs.