Double Lotus/Loveletter @ Baker Falls, New York, NY 2/2/25
Bill: Double Lotus/Loveletter
Venue: Baker Falls, New York, NY
Date: 2/2/25
Door: $12
9pm Double Lotus
Active: ? (New York, NY)
8pm Loveletter
Active: 2022 (New York, NY)
Latest Release: Testament (Loveletter, 2024)
The new Baker Falls venue is up and running on Allen St. having cleaved itself from the Knitting Factory/old Pyramid club after it underwent renovations following noise complaint shutdown. It's a front room music stage with some seats and some open bar area, sort've like a bigger Heaven Can Wait with homey nooks and crannies and backrooms with couches. I don't know if it is a pattern now for the East Village where what used to be the loud band would play later and the duos and songwriters would play at 7pm. Now I think to evade noise issues the live band goes on at 8 and the duo follows later.
I came out for Loveletter's first show of the year and got a short clip of the song previously unplayed live that Dennie was nervous about. It sounded fine! Double Lotus played after. They are a neighborhood guitar duo that cover Magic Sam and wrapped with "What Goes On" by the Velvet Underground. It got me to thinking that having a casual guitar duo on a Sunday night covering Magic Sam and the VU with a set of originals is a sadly rare and dying breed. Even if Loveletter were a hard act to follow, the audience appreciated them.
It sure beats someone taking a stab at "Wagon Wheel" or whatever.
FOR FURTHER REVIEW:
Loveletter @ Mama Tried 10/5/24
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