Celebration

For their 5th anniversary, local label Idée Fixe had two rosters of artists playing. The first took place Thursday night at The Horseshoe. Jennifer Castle (with backing band Deloro) gave us Americana-tinged songs like Sailing Away and Travelling Man. Alex Lukashevsky blew minds with crazy chorded, chromatic originals and tight, funky covers. Fiver told stories with Calm and Collected and Brother. Bry Webb (and the Providers) closed out the night, "channeling Crazy Horse", with distortion-heavy "folk" off his two solo albums including Receive Me, Ex-Punks, and Lowlife. It was a night of excellent music and song-writing. Bassist Anna Rudick (Ladies of the Canyons) deserved a special mention. She played with Lukashevsky, Fiver, and Webb, in several disparate styles with ease and aplomb.