Pokey LaFarge - August 16, 2019 - Payomet Performing Arts Center
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Date: 2019-08-22

Pokey LaFarge - August 16, 2019  - Payomet Center for the Arts 
Ever since his first released over a decade ago, Pokey LaFarge has been a difficult specimen to pin down. Though he was raised on a healthy diet of blues, bluegrass, ragtime, Western swing and old-time country — and though he has consistently demonstrated a decided affinity for pre-1950s menswear — the Illinois native is by no means a throwback or a museum piece. Timelessness, and refined good taste, is LaFarge’s raison d’être, and his influences are as multi-hued and wide-ranging as the rhythms that buoy his starkly poetic songs — rhythms that are steeped in the very essence of jazz.
 
“Limiting myself to a genre has never really been my thing,” says Pokey. “I’m most purely a rambler. I’m traveling the world all the time, and my songs have been directly influenced by my travels. You’re liable to hear something in my songs that sounds like traditional jazz; next thing you know, you might be hearing something that sounds like Bob Dylan’s Nashville Skyline mixed with the chanson singers of France, or a waltz mixed with cumbia, or soul mixed with swing.”
 
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