The Books with Baby Dee

The Books, consisting of guitarist and vocalist Nick Zammuto and cellist Paul de Jong, emerged in June 2002 with the release of their first album Thought for Food, after two years of working on and off in makeshift studios in New York, Los Angeles, Andover MA, and Hot Springs NC. To The Books’ total surprise the album received rave reviews throughout the independent music community and worldwide press. Though The Books are hard to categorize they are often pressed in interviews to categorize themselves. It took them almost as long as the making of their album to come up with this remotely suitable answer: blipworld / fakegrass / speedblues / chamberclick / eccentrock / country&eastern / glitch post-anything music with samples, closely followed by “food band”. From those early beginnings, The Books have gone on to release a small library of much-loved albums: The Lemon of Pink, Lost and Safe, Music for a French Elevator and Other Short Format Oddities. Recently, they collaborated with Jose Gonzalez on a remake of Nick Drake's Cello Song for the Dark Was the Night compilation. They are reported to be working on a new studio album...

Opening tonight will be Baby Dee, a special sampler offering of what you might expect in her full-length headlining show on April 19.

Tickets are on sale now from the Cedar Ticketline (612-338-2674 ext 2), Cedar outlets, and online at Ticketweb.
$18 advance, $20 day of show

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