MIMI ROMAN w/ The DAVE & DEKE Combo
MIMI ROMAN, The DAVE & DEKE Combo
MIMI ROMAN, The DAVE & DEKE Combo
McCabe's Guitar Shop3101 Pico Blvd, Los Angeles 90405
Mimi Roman makes her Los Angeles debut at McCabe’s Guitar Shop, billed with the Dave & Deke Combo. The evening pairs Roman, the “Brooklyn Cowgirl,” with the Los Angeles band’s West Coast hillbilly music, and adds special guests Eva Mikhailovna, singing and playing musical saw, and Elanor Whitmore of the Mastersons, singing and playing fiddle. Kully Styles joins on steel guitar. In McCabe’s back-room listening space, the focus is squarely on songs, voices and the detail of this roots-minded ensemble.
Roman is presented as a groundbreaking female performer whose recording career included a stint as a Decca Records singing star in the 1950s. The listing also places her history on the Grand Ole Opry and Arthur Godfrey’s television show, while noting that she is 92 and still singing. The Dave & Deke Combo are identified as Los Angeles purveyors of West Coast hillbilly music, providing the band setting for a rare local appearance by a singer whose story reaches back to mid-century country music and television.
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.