Stars come out

With nothing scheduled after Blonde Redhead's fab set, I considered going off to see Marcia Ball and The Wetland All Stars, but they still had the seats from the comdey show set up in the Blacksheep Tent and sitting down strikes me as the antithesis of funky grooves, so I hightailed it back to the Hard Rock Stage for some of Ronnie Baker Brooks. Brooks is a Chicago bluesman who is most definitely upholding the family tradition (his father is noted blues fretmaster Lonnie Brooks).

Cigar-chomping bassist Carlton Armstrong made quite an impression. Anthony "CJ" Tucker Jr. is the man on drums.



Ronie rocks the strat.



Ronnie sings!



Faceoff action!



Grimacing action!



More Ronnie!



Thisaway and thataway action!



After a bit of that I toddled over to the Subway Stage to see some Stars.



Smokey action!



Amy Millan sings some!



Gesturing action!



And even more smoke!



They were recently in town with Young Galaxy (just this Monday, actually) and are now touring hither and yon.

• Show reminder: Baptized In Blood, Counterparts, After The Vendetta, Dancing With Paris, Sleep Is For The Dead and The Rest Is Silent play loud and early at Mavericks; A Plot Against Me, Deadline Arson, Mad June and Symphony in the Stairwell play upstairs (and a bit later) at Cafe Dekcuf; The Hammerheads play the Rainbow; Zydeco Loco go nuts at Irene's; you can get your Ya-Yas indoors at the Elmdale House as an all-star band plays the tunes of the Rolling Stones.