Stan Ridgway is a true original. One of the most unique singer/songwriters in American music, from his early days with L.A.'s Wall Of Voodoo, to his even more intriguing solo career, Ridgway has created an impressive body of work.

When it comes to writing strange songs about ghostly marines, strippers with broken arms, and other dark, tall tales and subject matter, songwriter/guitarist Stan Ridgway is the best there is. Making his musical pictures for 30 years now, the singer-songwriter and guitarist has emerged as a singular voice in contemporary song. And he has developed no small number of friends, fans and followers: he's produced Pixies front man Frank Black, written songs for film with Police drummer Stewart Copeland, shaped soundtracks as well as writing and orchestrating music for the surrealist paintings of Mark Ryden, and both recorded and performed for uber -producer Hal Willner. Truly modern, 21st century folk music. His tales often take place in the microcosmic miasma of L.A. and its outer desert, where his characters try to wrest meaning from the beautiful catastrophe of their lives.

As he takes to the road, Ridgway is staging a series of retrospective shows - “Desert Of Dreams” - in honor of over 25 years of musical mystery from the House of Ridgway. He'll be screening his vivid stories starring his classic cast of anti-heroes, dreamers and schemers lost in the darkened drive-in theater of America. The jungle-bound soldier from "Camouflage" (a surprise Top 5 Hit in Europe from Ridgway's 1986 solo debut The Big Heat), the runaway driver of "King for a Day" (from his most recent offering Snakebite: Blacktop Ballads and Fugitive Songs), and the frustrated outsider in "Don't Box Me In" (written with Stewart Copeland of the Police for the Francis Ford Coppola film Rumblefish) are but three of Ridgway's creations that persist, long after the song is over and the curtain has dropped.

Ridgway's inimitable vocal style carries listeners to the edge of their seats, while perfectly balancing his sometimes-untrustworthy narrator's voice from the twilight zone. Ridgway is a rare performer and songmaker whose enduring sketches nail the human condition down cold while his characterizations of life remain absolutely fresh and alive.

Ridgway's latest solo CD is "Snakebite"

Artist's website

Saturday, March 28th, 2009 | Doors 6pm | Show 7:30pm | Downstairs Live

Tickets:
Floor/Loge Standing Room: $25 ($20 ticket + $5 processing fee)
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Mezzanine (Reserved Seating): $35 ($20 + $15 premium service*/processing fee)

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