Two sets by the Freddy Jones Band — the first is a regular set, in the second the band will play the entirety of "Waiting for the Night" to celebrate the album's 20th anniversary.
In 2000 The Freddy Jones Band went on hiatus. During the ten previous years of recording and touring, the band had amassed a body of work that included five albums of ambitious, wide-reaching rock and a reputation for expansive and energetic live shows that made the quintet a hot commodity on the tape-trader circuit. And now the Freddy Jones Band is back and reminding the world what was so special in the first place.
The group's original lineup—singer-guitarists Wayne Healy, Marty Lloyd and Rob Bonaccorsi, bassist Jim Bonaccorsi and drummer Simon Horrocks—reunited in the summer of 2005 for a charity show in it's former home base of Chicago. Now the FJB is playing for keeps again.
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The group's latest album, "Time Well Wasted"—it's first since 1999's "Mile High Live"—is at once a recap and a step forward. It features 10 tracks recorded live in 2007, reprising favorites such as "Take the Time," "Waitress," "One World" and "In a Daydream," as well as three new songs—"Home Thing," "Contender" and "Empty Room"—written by the Healy and Lloyd team and marking the start of a new era in the group's interrupted history.
Tickets are $20. Doors open at 7 pm.
