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www.tennessean.com THE TENNESSEAN Monday, August 13, 2001 5D ENTERTAINMENT Today's Hot Spots Star Ms Our pick Rootsy pop rocker Pete Yom's album is no joke, and Yorn comes to Music City tonight as part of the MTV2 Handpicked Tour. The ExitIn show will be a chance for locals to see whether Yorn's carefully constructed songs and evocative melodies can bite and snail in a live setting or whether he's the kind of fellow better heard through headphones. Ours, an interesting band with heavy Jeff Buckley leanings, opens the show at 9 p.m. $10 Pop rocker Pete Yorn plays tonight at ExitIn. For pure country pleasure, Don Rigsby and Dudley Connell are back with a follow-up to their amazing bluegrass duo album Meet Me by the Moonlight from 1999.

On the new record, Another Saturday Night (Sugar Hill), the respected vocalists from The Seldom Scene and The Lonesome River Band add pedal steel, drums and fiddles for a more varied package of songs, from traditional grass and gospel, to the brothers Louvin and Everly, to Bob Dylan, The voices fit like puzzle pieces; these guys are American masters. Finally, a folk gem. A couple of years ago, I saw Alabama songwriter Pierce Pettis perform in a gorgeous lamp-lit chapel in the Downtown Presbyterian Church, where the sound and ambience were almost supernatural. That kind of beauty and sanctified air saturates State of Grace (Compass Records), the seventh album from an extraordinary artist in the meaty middle years of a great career. It begins in bluegrass time with Jonell Mosser singing joyous background on Mark Heard's Rise From the Ruins.

Pettis' Georgia Moon, sung in an expressive, inviting baritone, is a deliciously complex study of the South Nothing But the Truth may be the album's high water mark and a good capsule description of the work as a whole. Craig Havighurst covers music for The Tennessean. He can be reached at 259-8041 or at chavighursttennessean.com. admission. PETER COOPER.

STAFF WRITER Other club happenings Songwriters Allen Shamblin, Thorn Schuyler, Chuck Jones, Don Henry, Robert Byrne, Jason Blume, Rory Lee, Tim Norton and Craig Carothers play tonight at this benefit for the Nashville Songwriters Association International. Show starts at 8 p.m. at Douglas Comer Cafe. $10 cover charge. Ethereal Cole Slivka is host of Shortsets tonight at Bean Central.

The show will feature Adam Mclntyre, Mia Adams and Destiny in Disguise. Show time is 8 p.m. A bunch of regular Spring-. water performers will perform for London's Channel 4 cameras. Paul Booker The Dynamite Operators, Slipshaft, Trophy and VETERAN EX-IRS AGENTS TAX PROFESSIONALS Clients Never Meet with the IRS Settle for Pennies on the Dollar Written Guarantee Free Tax Settlement Analysis: Confidential Interview in Our Local Office 800-925-9609 Toil-Free www.jkharris.com (Nation's) most successful tax-resolution company." -The Wall Street Journal JK Harris Company- Nashville (457 offices Nationwide) Another jazz recording that promises years of pleasure comes from esteemed trumpeter and composer Tom HarrelL Paradise on BMGBluebird draws few boundaries in its musical turf and explores more ideas deeply than should be possible in 71 minutes, but there's little that's inaccessible about its sprightly, swinging gor-geousness.

Especially enchanting is the way he blends strings and horns on pieces like Nighttime. In spots the ensemble sounds like the traditional jazz of Wynton Marsalis; elsewhere Harrell casts prairie spells a la Pat Metheny, with baroque strings in counterpoint. Only Wishing Well gets soundtrack hokey. The rest is truly exquisite. There is no easy segue to the unusual and ambitious new album by Chicago alt-country poster punk Robbie Fulks.

The unifying theme of the title, Couples in Trouble, brings marginal order to a bag of tunes that range from hillbilly balladry to sprightly modern pop to cabaret song. But this complex, self-produced record is a work of art, even if it is inconsistent. As always, Fulks' reedy tenor singing is honest and strong, the songwrit-ing reaching and sometimes spectacular. Catch the melodic Mad at a Girl and the chilling Banks of the Marianne for pleasing doses of romantic desperatioa The album is currently only available at www.robbiefulks.com. OsMosrs JONiS MM.

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The Mississippi Mass Choir (Hallelujah, Amen) joins in on Brand New Feeling, a rollicking gospel song by Parnell, Dan Penn and Gary Nicholsoa Ten songs are generously stretched over 53 minutes, concluding with a lovely reading of Gretchen Peters' Love's Been Rough on Me. Texas swing is a genre that might be gasping for air except for three decades of enthusiastic and skilled work by Asleep at the Wheel Giant-sized Ray Benson's killer group had never released a collection of their most-requested live tunes, so they took to the studio to make The Very Best of Asleep at the Wheel, recently released by Relentless Nashville. They freshen up a piano driven version of Route 66, boogie heartily through House of Blue Lights, and swing hard across Miles and Miles of Texas. It's a classic collection of songs, well recorded, from one of America's best party bands. a rice Vocalist Toni Price, a former Nashvillian, is well loved in Austin and insufficiently known outside that other country music city.

Maybe the eclectic and rousing Midnight Pumpkin will change that The album on Antone's Records stretches her into some artful pop and jazz directions, while holding onto her essential blues souL Gwil Owen's Something in the Water is a romantic, moody highlight, as are the vintage, Django-esque swing tunes The Right Kind of Man and We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye. Darlin' most clearly evokes the frequent comparisons to Bonnie Raitt. Who Needs Tears just rocks. The sessions are vivid and live sounding, making for a varied and wonderful project Blues guitar slinger Debbie Davies isn't from Texas, but she sounds like she could be, with a stinging attack reminiscent of Albert Collins, who mentored her as a band member and opening act in the 1980s. The songs on her sixth LP Love the Game are mostly by DON'T REPLACE YOUR OLD i BATHTUB REGLAZE IT! I Ask About Sinksjiteind ill iflhl70 wfcoupon 1 TSSjJ) regulariy '250 I I When the time comes for you or your parents to think a retirement community; wouldn't you prefer one that can meet all living and healthcare needs in one place so there's no need to move again if those needs change? It takes an entire village to provide a full range of services and there's only one place in this area where you'll find one: Dave Cloud the Gospel of Power will be on hand and the music will begin about 9 p.m.

The Time Jumpers play outrageously good western swing and country music tonight at the Station Inn. Show starts at 8 p.m. Club addresses ExitIn. 2208 Elliston Place. 321-4400.

Bean Central. 281 7 West End Ave. 327-1159. Springwater. 1 1 5 27th Ave.

N. 320-0345. Station Inn. 402 12th Ave. S.

255-3307. Douglas Comer Cafe. 2106 A Eighth Ave. S. 298-1688.

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