Concert Tomorrow by Singer Who Once Met Fred Savage!
The Union-Tribune interviews Jenny Lewis, who performs with the Watson Twins at the San Diego Women's Club in Hillcrest on Friday night. Times like these are instances where you can truly see the advantage of an online reporting platform vs. print. If you had just picked up the paper and read the article, you would never know that you had the capability of downloading all but one of the albums songs from Lewis' record label's website and listening to them while you read the article! Unfortunately, the one song missing is probably the most famous track on the album, the cover of the Travelling Wilbury's "Handle With Care" so I stuck it on the radio.blog on the front page for now. My opinion is that it the album is ok, but the cover song is awesome, although Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie's voice is an obvious weak link. If they replaced him with My Morning Jacket's Jim James, (who has toured with the other two guests, Conor Oberst and M. Ward), then we'd really have something.
Just a few more points of interest. One, is that if you go to www.jennylewis.com and click over to links, you find a link for not one, not two, but three seperate myspace pages. Rilo Kiley myspace, Watson Twins myspace and Jenny Lewis With Watson Twins myspace. Secondly, Lewis was the co-star of The Wizard, Fred Savage's epic late 80s hour and a half Nintendo ad, most famous for unveilling Super Mario Bros. 3. X-entertainment has full coverage of the movie, as well as the following video clip where in order to stop a criminal from getting away, Ms. Lewis shrieks "He touched my breast!" to get the attention of the casino floor. So that's probably a lot worse than any embarassing home video of you that your parents ever showed to your friends, and Jenny Lewis turned out alright.
