Howie Gelb & The Gospel Choir - Lisboa Soundz

Due to some really bad directions from the radio (they must think that everybody knows Lisbon’s downtown) and waiting to find out if I would have some company for the night ahead, I didn’t see the first group (some Portuguese band) but was fortunate enough to catch Howie Gelb & The Gospel Choir at the begging of their concert (although I must have missed a couple of songs). It was a great concert with a mix of blues, gospel & country and from the little I’ve found out in the web it seems he is one of the more under-known of American guitarists and songwriters, at least that is what you can read in a Amazon’s comment to one of his albums and the most famous band he belonged to was called Giant Sand. Yet another dinosaur forgotten by the industry…

There were not many people watching the concert, must were still in beaches or whatever and most were people who were there just to see Strokes, specifically the type of kids who only enjoy a band as long as it’s considered cool and hip to like them, the ones that cannot enjoy any type of music unless somebody (their urban tribe or the industry) tells them it’s cool to enjoy them…