MJ Lenderman and The Wind w/ Dari Bay (LSAF)

$27 Adv + Fees | 21+

Logan Square Arts Fest Aftershow

MJ Lenderman writes songs that are amorphous and elastic, rising to fill the venue they’re in, generous to accommodate the number of players on stage (an often unpredictable affair), less concerned with replicating the studio version than they are with meeting the crowd where they’re at. On his records, the Asheville-based Lenderman handles most of the playing, but with The Wind, it’s a multi-headed beast.

Over the last several years Lenderman, alongside guitarist Jon Samuels (Friendship, Second Grade), drummer Colin Miller, and his fellow Wednesday bandmates Xandy Chelmis (pedal steel) and Ethan Baechtold (bass), have built out a number of beloved MJ tracks into something else entirely. The songs on Lenderman’s 2021 release, Ghost of Your Guitar Solo, are lo-fi, almost skeletal; “Gentleman’s Jack” a sleepy bedroom mumble, “Catholic Priest” akin to an early Molina ballad. But in the non-stop churn of “And the Wind,” they’ve become boisterous, unwieldy, outgrowing their sparser starts — and now, finally, here the rollicking definitive versions of these songs live outside of the ether of YouTube bootlegs.

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