![]() ![]() Poindexter is, of course, the lounge lizard alter ego of New York Dolls legend David Johansen. Rather, Poindexter and the Banshees took as their antecedent an act like Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5, presenting songs in a good-humored, if not laugh-out-loud kind of way. Buster Poindexter is headed back to Café Carlyle, Tuesday to April 13, we’re told. Until then, it’s just more of the same loopy fun. There was perhaps more of a wink and a tongue in cheek with Buster Poindexter, but that didnt mean that the music was outright comedy. ![]() Buster Poindexter, David Doll ) : Musician, singer, songwriter, actor. There’s nary a sign of “artistic growth” from Poindexter’s previous two outings, unless you want to count his dour album-closing rendition of Ray Davies’ “Alcohol” as the missing moral to all the preceding songs about satiating the various human appetites. ( Deceased : 1995 ) David Johansen ( a.k.a. Musically, the colorful arrangements are a refreshing change of pace from pop music styles in which vocals are buried in a wall of grunge, or chanted over cerebrum-numbing rhythm tracks. Poindexter’s larger-than life voice, from the Louis Armstrong-Tom Waits gravel-pit school, is the perfect vehicle for them. Dolls Rock icon David Johansen, lead singer of The New York Dollsthe earliest band to explore the punk rock scene in 1971has invited his alter ego Buster Poindexter to join him at the elegant Cafe Carlyle from September 29 to October 10. Maybe this music is making a comeback because it was born in a time that was more relaxed and people seem (at least from this vantage) less zealous about making the wise, moral or healthful decision about every aspect of their lives.Ĭonsequently, there are loads of songs celebrating imbibing mass quantities of demon rum (“Knock’m Down Whisky”), having too much fun (“Saturday Night Fish Fry”) and, of course, libidos at large (“Big Fat Mamas Are Back in Style”). By Eileen Shapiro A Long Way From the N.Y. Buster Poindexter was the pseudonym rock singer David Johansen adopted in the mid-'80s for a semi-comic nightclub singer act he began to perform. ![]()
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