Slaid Cleaves plays the Red Dog

76 North C Street,Virginia City NV 89440

28 March, 2022

Description

One of the best singer songwriters of our time, Slaid Cleaves makes his way to Virginia City and the Red Dog Saloon. “I tend to think of songs as the whiskey of writing. Distilled down to the essence, powerful, concentrated, immediate. You can take it all in and really feel it in just seconds.” — SLAID CLEAVES When you ask knowledgable music fans for their list of classic American singer-songwriters, it is a fair bet that Slaid Cleaves will appear on more than a few lists. The characters in Slaid Cleaves’ songs live in unglamorous reality. They work dead-end jobs, they run out of money, they grow old, they hold on to each other (or not), and they die. With an eye for the beauty in everyday life, he tells their stories, bringing a bit of empathy to their uncaring world. His songs are short stories – stories worth hearing. We’re thrilled to have! Hidden away in Virginia City, a place known for mining, ghost stories and Mark Twain, sits one of the most  influential landmarks of the psychedelic era in the 1960s, the Red Dog Saloon.When it opened in June of 1965, the Red Dog Saloon became the provenance of much of what and who we know of the San Francisco sound, the counterculture musical phenomenon that dominated the decade.