Mayer Hawthorne at Johnny Brenda's
Michigan soul man Mayer Hawthorne - he hails from Ann Arbor, proving ground for Iggy Pop and the MC5 - plays the Johnny Brenda's tonight. The bespectacled and button-downed singer makes an impressive entrance as an old schoool smoothie on his A Strange Arrangement on the Stones Throw label, writing, producing and playing pretty much everything all by himself. So how will he fare in a live setting, with an honest-to-goodness band behind him? Head to Fishtown tonight to find out, and take a peak at this recent clip from the Highline Ballroom in Manhattan, where Hawthorne sat in with Jimmy Fallon's house band, The Roots, during one of their weekly jam sessions for a hint.
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