Son of George, featuring empathetic Coney Island singer-songwriter Dave Doobinin, will be at Rockwood Music Hall on Saturday night
Rockwood Music Hall Stage 1
196 Allen St. between Houston & Stanton Sts.
Saturday, April 16, free, 10:00
212-477-4155
www.rockwoodmusichall.com
www.sonofgeorge.com
For his debut as Son of George, native New Yorker Dave Doobinin (skywriter) worked with Steve Schiltz of Longwave, the two of them playing all the instruments in a home studio in Queens. The result is a five-track EP of shimmering, poetic, ethereal songs, enhanced by using a 1970s Electra Delay pedal to treat Doobinin’s voice. A self-described “wandering spirit, hopeless romantic, world traveler, and artistic soul,” Doobinin, who lives in Coney Island, is an empathetic singer-songwriter; he actually visited a cemetery on City Island to help inspire him for the Potter’s Field song “Forgotten Ones,” in which he sings, “There’s a place / where ‘Hallelujah’ means nothing at all . . . / Is there a way / to shoot an arrow straight into the sun / Shine a light for all the forgotten ones.” He goes falsetto on “Hummingbird” and “Summertime,” the latter also featuring a fresh guitar line. Doobinin, who has also released such solo albums as 2004’s What Your Money Wants and 2008’s The Birth of Wonder, will be at Rockwood Music Hall on April 16 at 10:00 on a bill that also includes Sarah Jarosz (8:00), Tallahassee (9:00), Air Traffic Controller (11:00), and the Queen Killing Kings (12 midnight), among others.