Friday, September 3: Bluff City Backsliders, The Cakewalkers Saturday, September 4: Rob Jungklas Trio, Animal Sounds $5 Cover. Doors at 7 pm. Show at 8 pm. ALL AGES. Smoke Free inside. Beer, Coffee and Food. Large patio & deck. 641 S. Cooper at Cowden. 901-278-4994. www.myspace.com/otherlands. www.facebook.com/otherlands See our complete music calendar and food menu at www.otherlandscoffeebar.com NEXT WEEK... Sept. 10: Star & Micey, Michaela Caitlin Sept. 11: MAMA presents Spencer Bohren Friday, September 3: Bluff City Backsliders, The Cakewalkers BLUFF CITY BACKSLIDERS. The Backsliders are fronted by Jason Freeman (of Blacksnake Moan fame), along with Michael Graber (Fatback Jubilee) and a rotating cast that usually includes Clint Wagner (Devil Train) and Sun Studio engineer Matt Ross-Spang. "This Memphis super band can deliver the soulful, spirited, and often very funny sounds that first made Beale Street famous." -  MEMPHIS FLYER "If W.C. Handy and Memphis Minnie were still alive, they'd be dancin' hand in hand down Beale Street with a devilish fervor. It's that good!" - MILES OF MUSIC "In a town with more blues bands than you can shake a porkpie hat at, the Bluff City Backsliders truly stand out as something unique." - COMMERCIAL APPEAL "Well-timed and unquestionably interesting, balancing gravity and levity, verisimilitude and the grotesque." - BLUES REVUE http://www.myspace.com/bluffcitybacksliders THE CAKEWALKERS. Don't miss the Memphis debut of The Cakewalkers, all the way from Taylor, Mississippi. The Cakewalkers are steeped in old timey tradition, part blues, part jug band, part string band, with just a hint of zydeco. They call it Mississippi Skiffle. The Cakewalkers have been burning up the Delta from Oxford to Greenwood, playing picnics, parties, cookouts and parades. And a farmers market here and there. The members are Jared Spears, Daniel Spears, Mark Yacovone, Adrian Baron Robbins, Dr. Frey, Kevin Guyer. The instrumental lineup is guitar, acoustic double bass, accordion, mandolin, tin whistle and percussion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSydNPNIQLg $5 Cover. Doors at 7 pm. Show at 8 pm. ALL AGES. Smoke Free inside. Beer, Coffee and Food. Large patio & deck. 641 S. Cooper at Cowden. 901-278-4994. www.myspace.com/otherlands. www.facebook.com/otherlands Saturday, September 4: Rob Jungklas Trio, Animal Sounds ROB JUNGKLAS TRIO make their long awaited return to Otherlands Saturday night with a brand new CD in tow. Mapping the Wreckage. They are Rob Jungklas on guitars and vocals, Jonathon Kirkscey, cello, and Robert Barnett, drums. Folk music verging on heavy metal. Blues with the sensibilities of techno industrial. "The dissonant art-blues sound and piercing lyrics full of Southern Gothic and biblical imagery that Jungklas established on Arkadelphia and Gully are directed toward a powerful yet intimate album that tracks the deterioration and aftermath of a relationship." - Chris Herrington, Memphis Flyer Rob Jungklas issued his debut LP Closer to the Flame in 1987 on Manhattan Records. On the strength of an MTV video aired for the single “Boys Town,” the record garnered airplay and modest chart success for his effort, while creating the iconic regional anthem "Memphis Thing." The more reflective Work Songs for a New Moon, that followed two years later on RCA, showcased Jungklas’ nuanced blend of pop songwriting and Memphis style R&B. His sophomore release saw Rob explore some of the guitar wail and sonic experiments that would become prominent on his darker independent releases to come a decade and a half later. Arkadelphia, Rob Jungklas’ first release in 14 years, was one of the smartest, darkest, and most profound of any of it’s peer releases in 2002. The nuance of his follow up CD, Gully, stands up to it’s predecessor with a sense of time and place, life and death, god and devil, death and dirt. Lee Froelich calls Rob’s songs “profane and poetic, haunted by ghost and damnation” and the sentiments are echoed by the likes of Rolling Stones’ David Fricke who describes the sounds as “bloodied bottleneck guitar and choked prayer.” http://www.myspace.com/robjungklas ANIMAL SOUNDS, an indie pop/rock trio from right here in Memphis open the show at 8:30 sharp. Calling themselves pop, the band has a definite prog rock/space rock tilt, listing influences from the obligatory Radiohead and Coldplay but dialing as far back as The Flaming Lips and Echo and the Bunnymen. "We can sound like Elephants." says drummer David Barton. Animal sounds took the summer off to write and record and are back this fall on a run of shows that included The Hi-Tone and the New Daisy. They are Samuel Roberts, guitars and vocals, Richard Dalton, bass, vocals, and keyboards. and David Barton on drums. They admit to being handsome young men, so you really shouldn't miss it! http://www.myspace.com/iheardyouwereleaving $5 Cover. Doors at 7 pm. Show at 8 pm. ALL AGES. Smoke Free inside. Beer, Coffee and Food. Large patio & deck. 641 S. Cooper at Cowden. 901-278-4994. www.myspace.com/otherlands. www.facebook.com/otherlands NEXT WEEK... Sept. 10: Star & Micey, Michaela Caitlin Sept. 11: MAMA presents Spencer Bohren