OTBKB Music: The Medicine Show Arrives Saturday Night

This Saturday night, the best rock band out there, Steve Wynn and The Miracle 3 will be right here in Brooklyn at The Bell House over at 2nd Avenue and 7th Street, walking distance from wherever you are in The Slope.

Steve and the band will commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the release of “Medicine Show” by playing that classic album from start to finish for the first time. The Miracle 3—Steve’s long-time band of Jason Victor, Dave Decastro and Linda Pitmon—did similar shows for “The Days of Wine and Roses” in 2001.

“’Medicine Show’ is the weirdest, most idiosyncratic, nastiest, funniest and most revealing record the Dream Syndicate ever made,” said Wynn in the liner notes from the record’s 1991 reissue. “It’s also my favorite.”

If you're not familar with The Medicine Show, it has songs about life in the small town of Merrittville (if you lived there you'd probably want to leave), what thrills might await you at that traveling Medicine Show, about arson and the loss of faith and that's just the tip of the iceberg. 

Steve Wynn and The Miracle 3 at The Bell House, Saturday June 27, 7:30pm. $12.

--Eliot Wagner