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Live Show: Sunday, Oct 26, 2008 7:00 pm
Location: The Boulder Theater

Join the live studio audience for this etown taping, offering a classic mix of diverse music and diverting conversation. On this date, etown welcomes back Sonny Landreth, the Louisiana-based slide guitar wizard, singer and songwriter along with Juliana Hatfield, the godmother of indie-rock. Juliana will also discuss her recently published memoirs, “When I Grow Up,” reflecting on her 20-year career. Noted author Terry Tempest Williams will drop by for an interview, discussing her new book “Finding Beauty In A Broken World.”

Tickets are now on-sale:
303-786-7030

http://bouldertheater.com

Sonny Landreth
“Probably the most underestimated musician on the planet and also probably one of the most advanced.” – Eric Clapton

Southwest Louisiana-based guitarist, songwriter and singer Sonny Landreth is a musician’s musician. His blues slide guitar playing is distinctive and unlike anything else you’ve ever heard. His unorthodox guitar style comes from the manner in which he simultaneously plays slide and makes fingering movements on the fret board. Landreth can play it all.

Landreth was born February 1, 1951, in Canton, MS, and his family lived in Jackson, MS, for a few years before settling in Lafayette, LA. Landreth, who still lives in southwest Louisiana, began playing guitar after a long tenure with the trumpet. His earliest inspiration came from Scotty Moore, the guitarist from Elvis Presley’s band, but as time went on, he learned from the recordings of musicians and groups like Chet Atkins and the Ventures.

Juliana Hatfield
“She was a willowy beauty with charming shyness and a slightly tragic air” says Brett Milano, of Juliana Hatfield in her starting-out days, in his recent book The Sound Of Our Town: A History Of Boston Rock+Roll.

Juliana Hatfield – no less an intriguing, compelling character today – has been working as a recording artist for twenty years. With the release of How To Walk Away, her 10th solo album, she again proves herself to be an uncompromising artist with impeccable pop instincts, a disdain for artifice, a completely original voice, and a contrarian streak.

Praise for the new album has been effusive…
“Hatfield still knows how to pack venom into a sprightly pop song, or blow off a lover with a killer guitar hook. The result is rueful and gorgeous.” “A-” Entertainment Weekly.

Hatfield reflects on her 20 year career in her recently published memoir, “When I Grow Up.” In the book, Hatfield chronicles her extraordinary journey, from her teenage beginnings in the pioneering indie-rock combo Blake Babies, and iconic rise to alternative solo stardom, to the past decade’s stunning streak of increasingly mature, critically acclaimed albums. Whether detailing the origin of her songs, her battles with clinical depression or her quest to find purpose after all of her dreams had seemingly come true, Hatfield writes in the same engaging fashion her fans have loved for years – spirited, witty, and heartbreakingly sincere.

Terry Tempest Williams
In her most original, provocative, and eloquently moving book since Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams gives us a luminous chronicle of finding beauty in a broken world. Always an impassioned and far-sighted advocate for a just relationship between the natural world and humankind, Williams has broadened her concerns over the past several years to include a reconfiguration of family and community in her search for a deeper understanding of what it means to be human in an era of physical and spiritual fragmentation.