Evening with Steve Poltz (Friday Show)
Evening with Steve Poltz
McCabe's Guitar Shop3101 Pico Blvd, Los Angeles 90405
Steve Poltz brings his 14th solo album, JoyRide, to McCabe's. The record grew from a spontaneous East Nashville studio session with Dex Green: “real humans making real noise in real time,” as Poltz puts it.
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, raised in Southern California and now based in Nashville, Poltz is known for stellar guitar work and raucous, joyous, improvisational shows. A review of a previous McCabe's appearance found the stories and music personal, calling him “genuine” and “hilarious”: “You don’t look at your watch during a Steve Poltz show. You’re riveted to the man and the stories and the music.”
McCabe’s is a working instrument shop with a concert history stretching back to the late 1960s, and its back room has welcomed both emerging artists and performers who keep returning. The show takes place among walls hung with guitars and other stringed instruments, with the audience seated in folding chairs facing a small stage. It is a listening room: there is no bar, and the quiet lets acoustic detail and lyrics carry through the room. Concerts are ticketed, and the shop’s current listings and tickets are available online, so check ahead for your show. The shop is on Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica; the concert room is reached through the store. Expect an evening focused on the performance, rather than drinks or dinner between sets.