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Wednesday, April 2,2008
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Danny Price and The Loose Change
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Let’srun
through it one more time, then listen to the CD,” Danny Price says to
his band, The Loose Change. They are practicing a set of mostly covers
for a St. Patrick’s Day show at a Riverwest bar known simply as The
Pub, and are trying to master a cover of a traditional song,
“Sinnerman,” made popular by Nina Simone. It is an intensely soulful,
rolling piece.
“When I first heard her version of ‘Sinnerman,’ there wasn’t another song I listened to for a week,” Price says.
The
Loose Change—Paul Setser, keyboard, Ben Rousseau, bass, Russ Nadasdy,
guitar, and Ken Zanowski, drums—are crowded in Setser’s living room in
his secondfloor flat. The drum set is by the couch, the keyboard by the
TV and everything else somewhere in between. All the band members have
a glass of wine within arm’s reach.
They jam through the song
reasonably well, and then listen to Simone’s version. Setser plays
along lightly on the keyboard and Zanowski adds a couple of cymbal
splashes. They start into the song, faster this time, and add a
breakdown where the band claps the rhythm with their hands.
They
run through the song one more time and they have it down tightly. Then
they run through a few more covers: “Suspicious Minds” by Elvis and the
traditional Irish drinking song “Nancy Whiskey,” which is sure to get
the crowd singing along.
Price, Setser and Zanowski played the
first Loose Change show as a trio on Christmas Eve 2006 at the Circle
A. The three also play in the burlesque-themed band Eat The Mystery.
Smoky torch singer Angie Livermore sings with Eat The Mystery and often
joins in with The Loose Change at shows. Rousseau and Nadasdy joined
the band a year later. Price grew up listening to pop music and
country, and in his adolescence discovered punk and metal. “Now I try
to incorporate all those different styles that I grew up loving into
our music,” Price says. He looks and sings like a sailor who just
received leave from a ship of the damned. When he sings, his face
expresses intense concern, as if he is feeling all of the pain about
which he sings.
When the St. Patty’s Day gig arrives, the band
members find themselves shoved in a corner, even more cramped than they
were in their living room. “I said ‘Power! Power! Power!’” The Loose
Change are performing “Sinnerman,” with Price screaming “Power!” over
and over while the rest of Loose Change claps and sings “Power Lord!”
in response. The crowd is festive for St.
Patty’s Day; everyone is shoulder to shoulder, clinking glasses and enjoying the music.
Danny Price and The Loose Change perform April 4 with Eat The Mystery, Corruptable and Highlonesome at the Borg Ward.
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