Weekend Ideas: January 29, 2016

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Perhaps the most surprisingly under-the-radar “Star Wars” tie-in came last summer in a new album of that name from Wilco, released for free before the latest movie awakened. Assembled by band members separately after leader Jeff Tweedy laid down basic tracks in the studio, it’s now the focus of rare theater-size shows like the ones Wilco plays on Friday and Saturday at the Orpheum Theatre. Meanwhile, over at the Paradise Rock Club on Friday, Greensky Bluegrass shares its jam-grass with a young, growing audience, while singer/songwriter Marshall Crenshaw joins forces that night with the rootsy Bottle Rockets at the Center for Arts in Natick.

Electric-bass virtuoso Victor Wooten, best known for his work with Bela Fleck’s Flecktones, delivers his own double-header in a duo with drummer J.D. Blair at the Regattabar on both Friday and Saturday. And with the absence of T.T. the Bear’s Place, Shaun Wolf Wortis moves his annual Mardi Gras Ball to the ONCE Ballroom at Somerville’s Cuisine en Locale, where the singer/guitarist and his Legendary Vudu Krewe honor the late Allen Toussaint with guests Jed Parish, Merrie Amsterberg, Carla Ryder and Chris Cote. And it’s a benefit for the New Orleans Musicians Clinic.

And on Sunday, World Music/CRASHarts presents a meeting of the spirits with ’60s-bred winds master Charles Lloyd (pictured) & the Marvels at the Berklee Performance Center. In that new group, Lloyd pairs his usual bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Eric Harland with guitarists Bill Frisell and Greg Leisz, whose textural twang lends its own cosmic icing as well on the Marvels’ contemplative new album I Long to See You, exploring the American Songbook. A taste of that chemistry came in past collaborative concerts including Wilco’s 2015 Solid Sound fest.


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