An Afternoon of Songs & Stories w/Steve Wynn in a Living Room in Boston, MA

STEVE WYNN

A "Storytellers" show in support of Steve's new memoir &amp; album being released this August.

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NOTE This is an early show, doors 3pm. This performance will take place in a private home in the Lower Mills neighborhood of Dorchester. The home is located near the Mattapan trolley line, and is a 5-minute walk from Cedar Grove station. There is limited driveway parking, and there is usually street parking. There is also a pay-by-phone lot a five-minute walk away.BYOB, beer and wine only. NO hard alcohol please. Soft drinks and water will be available. There is no smoking of any kind anywhere on or around the premises.The house is NOT wheelchair accessible. There are five steps up.A ticket guarantees a spot but not a seat. There will be some standing room. If you need accommodation, please send us a message ahead of time.Steve Wynn, leader and founder of the Dream Syndicate, will be touring the US this October in support of I Wouldn’t Say It If It Wasn’t True, his debut book, a memoir for Jawbone Press, as well as “Make It Right,” his first solo album since 2010, to be released on Fire Records. Both the book and new record will come out on August 30.The book details the winding path from growing up a music fan and pre-teen bandleader in Los Angeles through the formation and ultimate dissolution of the Dream Syndicate at the end of their first era in 1988. There are stops along the way for tales of cross-country greyhound trips to track down Alex Chilton to wild, off-the-rails tours with U2 and R.E.M. and the epic heart-of-darkness making of the band’s controversial second album Medicine Show and plenty more. The album is a similarly reflective and intimately revealing collection, written and recorded in tandem with the writing of I Wouldn’t Say It If It Wasn’t True.Wynn promises a one-man show blending songs from and inspired by the book along with a narrative structure of readings from the book and storytelling, adjunctly extrapolated from those passages. Fans can expect a selection of evergreens and rarities from the Dream Syndicate’s 80’s catalog along with illuminating covers and reflective numbers from the new album as well, all adding up to one tall tale of a past revisited. Steve says, “I don’t see this show as a stodgy reading or as a random selection of songs but rather a tiny play of sorts, a way of giving a flesh and blood companion to the book. I’m looking for that magic place where, say, Lenny Bruce and Spalding Grey and Ray Davies and Bob Dylan and maybe Hedwig might meet in a dimly lit cabaret on the back streets of Hollywood. I’ve never done this kind of show before but if I can hit all those markers, I’ll be happy.”Steve will be selling and signing copies of I Wouldn’t Say It If It Wasn’t True and “Make It Right” after every show.

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