Brett Eugene Ralph’s Kentucky Chrome Revue

“The MC5 of country music.”

“David Allan Cohen.” — Brett

Brett Eugene Ralph personifies punk rock. Spend five minutes with his incredible poetry or five seconds with eyes closed during a Kentucky Chrome verse and the sincerity he manages with every pen-stroke or bent note threatens to shatter or console you. His sense of humor is a street performer humming along to the beautiful song playing inside the theatre, a colossal tone of voice that plows through song after song with every emotion true and lived. He’s old leather. He outlasts like all great outlaws. A titan. — Steve V

cheetah by gavchap

PRFBBQ2014 Schedule

Dates for the PRFBBQ2014 have been announced. Friday, June 20, 2014 through Sunday, June 22nd, 2014 will be all day events held at Borelli’s in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

THREE DAY PASSES ARE SOLD OUT. THERE WILL NOT BE SINGLE DAY PASSES FOR SATURDAY THIS YEAR.

You can still donate to the Beverage Fund if you so choose.

This is a charity event. All monies raised will go to cover band and event expenses, with the proceeds going to Friends of McPherson (CPS School McPherson) and to help pay medical expenses for musician’s family member who has terminal cancer.

Information will be added here as it becomes available. To stay abreast, visit the PRFBBQ2014 Facebook Event.

Wednesday ~ The Pre-Pre-PreRF BBQ Wednesday Night Explosion at Kitchen Sink

Kitchen Sink, Chicago, Illinois

8:30-?:??        .22 (Chicago)
?:??-?:??        Document (P.R.F. R.E.M. cover experience) (Chicago)

Thursday ~ The PreRF BBQ Thursday Night Lights PRF Chicago Chapter Power Run

Livewire Lounge 3394 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, Illinois

5:15-5:45         Magia Nuda (Chicago)
6:00-6:30         The Heroine Complex (Chicago)
6:45-7:15         Stomatopod (Chicago)
7:30-8:00         My Canadian Girlfriend (Chicago)
8:15-8:45         Royal Pines (Chicago)
9:00-9:30         The Cell Phones (Chicago)
9:45-10:15       Primes (NYC)
10:30-11:00     Whales (Chicago)
11:15-12:00     TBA
12:15-             The Yow Yow Yows (Bloomington’s Premier Jesus Lizard live tribute experience) (Bloomington)

Friday ~ The PRFBBQ 2014 Official Kick Off Boogie Jam Event

Borelli’s 2124 W. Lawrence Chicago, IL 60625

7:00-7:30         The Rutabega (South Bend)
7:35-8:05         The Book-Burners (Great Lakes Region)
8:10-8:40         Fake Limbs (Chicago)

Basement: 8:45-9:15 Gay Name (Chicago, NYC & Milwaukee)

9:20-10:05        Brett Eugene Ralph’s Kentucky Chrome Revue (Louisville)
10:10-10:40      Velcro Lewis Group (Chicago)
10:45-              A Very PRF Live Band Karaoke Tribute to Touch & Go records

Saturday ~ PRF BBQ 2014

Borelli’s 2124 W. Lawrence Chicago, IL 60625

12:00-12:30      Like Like The The The Death (Milwaukee)
12:35-1:05       Tyranny is Tyranny (Madison)
1:10-1:40         Chung Antique (Seattle)
1:45-2:15         Self Evident (Minneapolis)
2:20-2:50         The Fervor (Louisville)
2:55-3:25         The Bismarck (Seattle)

Basement: 3:30-4:00 Real Live Dress (Chicago)

4:10-4:40         Magpies (Missoula)
4:45-5:15         Hungry Man (Chicago)
5:20-5:50         Jap Herron (Chicago)
6:00-6:30         Motherfucker (Athens)
6:35-7:05         Couch Flambeau (Milwaukee)

Rooftop: 7:10-7:40 Small Awesome (Chicago)

7:45-8:15         The Columbines (Chicago)
8:20-9:20         Hum (Champaign)
9:30-10:10       Dianogah (Chicago)
10:05-10:35     Marthas Vineyard Ferries (Massachusetts)
10:40-11:10     Pinebender (Chicago)
11:15-             F/I (Milwaukee)

Sunday ~ PRF BBQ 2014

Borelli’s 2124 W. Lawrence Chicago, IL 60625

12:00-12:30     Songs of the Pawners’ Society
12:35-1:05       Burn Permits (Seattle)
1:10-1:40         SEMINARS (Seattle)

1:45-2:15         French Goodbye (Chicago)
2:20-2:50         We Ride On (NYC)
2:55-3:25         Reverb Bomb (Ontario)
3:30-4:00         Dead Halos (Louisville)

4:05-4:35         Bad Models (NYC)
4:40-5:10         Minutes (Kalamazoo)
5:15-5:45         Electrical Collision Horse (Chicago)

5:50-6:20         Crown Larks
6:25-6:55         Six Acre Lake (Philadelphia)
7:00-7:30         Redgrave (Chicago)

7:35-8:05         Burned or Buried (Chicago)
8:10-8:40         San Andreas Fault (Chicago)
8:45-9:15         Velocicopter (Chicago)

9:20-9:50         We Are Hex (Indianapolis)
9:55-10:25       Electric Hawk (Chicago)
10:30-11:15     Dead Rider (Chicago)
11:20-             Nonagon (Chicago)

Photo by gavchap — https://flic.kr/p/a2o1DC