{"id":9771,"date":"2026-03-27T14:56:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/the-delines-and-chris-eckman-live-at-club-uncut-tender-literary-tales-of-underdog-america-153868\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:56:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:56:59","slug":"the-delines-and-chris-eckman-live-at-club-uncut-tender-literary-tales-of-underdog-america-153868","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/the-delines-and-chris-eckman-live-at-club-uncut-tender-literary-tales-of-underdog-america-153868\/","title":{"rendered":"The Delines and Chris Eckman live at Club Uncut: tender, literary tales of underdog America"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWithout Uncut, we probably wouldn\u2019t be here,\u201d Willy Vlautin tells the loyal congregation packing the pews for The Delines\u2019 show at Islington\u2019s Union Chapel, part of a rising trajectory which will see them play the prestigious Barbican next year. The love is fully reciprocated at the long-awaited return of Club Uncut, which we hope will allow you to see many of the artists we regularly champion in the flesh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWithout Uncut, we probably wouldn\u2019t be here,\u201d Willy Vlautin tells the loyal congregation packing the pews for The Delines\u2019 show at Islington\u2019s Union Chapel, part of a rising trajectory which will see them play the prestigious Barbican next year. The love is fully reciprocated at the long-awaited return of Club Uncut, which we hope will allow you to see many of the artists we regularly champion in the flesh.<\/p>\n

The Delines stand with Vlautin\u2019s previous outfit Richmond Fontaine at the heart of Uncut\u2019s values, telling tender, literary tales of underdog America, wedded to music in which the tributaries of their country\u2019s music freely flow to find subtle new forms.<\/p>\n

Much the same could be said for Chris Eckman, who since his days with \u201990s Seattle outliers The Walkabouts has marked out his own parched but indomitable trail, before arriving at last year\u2019s stately landmark The Land We Knew The Best<\/em>. Stained-glass angels glow orange-red as he stands alone for \u201cTown Lights Fade\u201d, which trusts in seasonal rebirth after stormy times. \u201cAnd the tears have turned to silver,\u201d he sings, \u201cbeen minted up as coin.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

His acoustic guitar murmurs a crystal sigh during \u201cRunning Hot\u201d, silvery tension and twang during \u201cButtercup\u201d. Reckless night odysseys through Oregon sagebrush and squatters\u2019 camps mark \u201cNothing Left To Hide\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Curving Life\u201d is, though, tonight\u2019s epic, written during a slow, hard time of pandemic and divorce. \u201cYou brought the fire\u2026 \/ You cut my hand, just to keep it lit,\u201d he sings of an incinerating love. Even his adopted Slovenian home\u2019s monumental mountains and valleys come unmoored here, as he wanders forgotten, figuring just to \u201cplay some half-baked songs at the county fair\u201d. He closes with The Walkabouts\u2019 \u201cMy Diviner\u201d. \u201cNobody ever said this was going to be easy,\u201d he knew then, finding refreshing wellsprings anyway over his guitar\u2019s soft pulse.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel all the good vibes here \u2013 I feel really good,\u201d Amy Boone says early in The Delines\u2019 set, and the camaraderie of a band who have found something precious together is tangible. When this UK tour is done, Boone divulges later, they will record their sixth album here, with three of its songs previewed tonight. Vlautin, who grew up in the gambling town of Reno, is letting their hot streak run.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Where Richmond Fontaine seemed progressively overtaken by his parallel, heartbreaking novels, losing their fuzzed-up Replacements side in service to his words, Boone provides full-blooded soul and the innate resilience of a woman who recovered from a shattering injury to stand here and sing, redemptive power redoubled live. In many ways, this is her band.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Vlautin mostly writes about women now, and for Boone\u2019s character more than his own bruised, gun-shy nature. You can hear echoes of his own prose and late Cormac McCarthy, the country-soul of Bobbie Gentry or Dan Penn, but also the urbanity of Bacharach and David. \u201cDrowning In Plain Sight\u201d, for instance, whose working woman finds \u201cthe gas gauge is on empty, but I ain\u2019t ever stopped driving\u201d, strength further ennobled here by Cory Gray\u2019s trumpet solo, or \u201cOld Haunted Place\u201d, a prison to which Boone insists, \u201cI ain\u2019t going back\u201d, marching on like Aretha at her most assertive.<\/p>\n

The first song Vlautin wrote for Boone, \u201cThe Oil Rigs At Night\u201d, set out a fresh American landscape for his low-life songs in flaming Gulf Coast refineries. The Delines\u2019 expanding variety is shown by the new \u201cA Girl Floating On The River\u201d. Cory Gray\u2019s icy keyboard notes conjure numbed \u201960s pop, reflecting the state of mind of a woman who appears anaesthetised. Another new song, \u201cHolding Fast\u201d, describes an implacable love almost like a threat, while \u201cHe Don\u2019t Burn For Me\u201d settles into romance\u2019s slow, hard fade, taken by Boone as a waking, dead-of-night soliloquy.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe didn\u2019t have it easy\/ But I guess whoever has?\u201d Boone asks in \u201cThe Reckless Life\u201d, an especially harsh account of depravity and betrayal. \u201cOh, once again he has done himself in\u2026 \/ Disappearing his way through town,\u201d she notes in \u201cWalking With His Sleeves Down\u201d, a slow, sad duet with Vlautin spectrally distant, like a transmission from the other side, and Trujillo\u2019s harmonica piercing or perhaps sharpening the gloom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe guys don\u2019t think she\u2019ll make it \/ But I know inside she still has enough,\u201d Boone insists on the closing \u201cDilaudid Diane\u201d. She has let hope into Vlautin\u2019s world.<\/p>\n

The next Club Uncut show features Joana Serrat, Chris Eckman and Tenderness playing in The Blue Basement at Third Man Records, Soho, on April 17 \u2013 get your tickets here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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