liars, thieves & big shot ramblers

With easy confidence and cardsharp bravado, these artists make self-invention their watchword, showing that the best complement to outsized talent is the nerve to bet big now matter what cards you hold. The spirit of North Carolina legend Charlie Poole—the original bigshot rambler—presides.

Ollabelle with Jim Lauderdale, Catherine Russell, Aoife O'Donovan & David Mansfield
Friday, October 15, 2010 | 8:00 pm
Page Auditorium
$32 • $26 • $18 • Duke Students $5

Clear the haze surrounding the Grateful Dead’s Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty and you get a luminous Americana closer to Appalachia than Haight-Ashbury. Here, new-style folk band Ollabelle—co-founded by Amy Helm (daughter of The Band’s Levon)—supports a ramble of stars as they recover the heart of those American beauties. Sharing lead vocals are country-bluegrass icon Lauderdale; Dylan collaborator Mansfield; the singer-composer for Crooked Still, O’Donovan; and the "incredibly talented" Russell (Village Voice)—a freewheeling collective that evokes The Band, but raises a new, unvarnished Dead.

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