Thu 10/1
Local singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Jerry Popiel ranks the great pop/folk singer/songwriters of the 70s among his main influences. He especially looks to Gordon Lightfoot to whom he performs a tribute show called Sundown.
If you too like the music of Lightfoot and listening to six or more minutes of “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” (in concert usually a LOT more) doesn’t make you scream, you’ll be excited to hear about Popiel’s new album called Interstellar Interstate, out on Thursday October 1. Among original tunes like the title track, “A Distant June,” and “Leaving Ohio” and a 1850 Stephen Foster cover “I Would Not Die in Springtie,” is what he calls “the album’s centerpiece” — his version of Lightfoot’s tribute to the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior on November 10, 2020, “with haunting, interstellar rock updates.”
Popiel, who was also a member of the band Birdhouse Gourds, played all the instruments himself, creating a more rocking feel than he does in his usual acoustic-based sets. Find out more here.