Lots of people think of
songs in terms of emotional blocks of color or even a filmic rush of images.
Andy Friedman goes all the way, treating his stark pencil drawings and Polaroids
as songs in and of themselves. His book, "Drawings & Other Failures,"
released through his own City Salvage Records, contains several of his images,
in which he sees all the emotional play that an abstract country-blues song
might offer. For this performance, he'll show the images and guide you into
the world contained in each; for songs without music, they sound pretty cool.
Paul Curreri, however, has a CD of nervy folk on City Salvage, "From Long
Gones To Hawkmoth," which trades in oblique tales not dissimilar to Friedman's.