Jay Bianchi, owner of the Grateful Dead-centric bars Quixote’s True Blue and Sancho’s Broken Arrow, is resurrecting the Owsley’s Golden Road name in Boulder, seven years after opening a venue of the same name in Denver.
While Bianchi is currently booking shows at the Goose Bar (1301 Broadway) in Boulder as Owsley’s Golden Road Presents, he says that around the middle of May, he’ll be taking over the bar, which has a capacity of 300, and turning it into Owsley’s Golden Road, named after the famed LSD cook Owsley Stanley, who was also an early sound engineer for the Dead.
Bianchi says Owsley’s will have a Sancho’s-style jukebox and Sancho’s-priced drinks.
“It will be kind of a Sancho’s/Quixote’s in Boulder,” Bianchi says. “We’re bringing the posters up and having more music. The jukebox is going to be more representative, and the music coming out the place is going to be more representative of what we do.”
Bianchi says he didn’t open a spot in Boulder before since he couldn’t figure out how do it at a time that worked well for him.
“It seems like Quixote’s is settled enough and Sancho’s is settled enough that I can do that in Boulder and spend some time in Boulder,” he says. “Because I don’t want to do something where I can’t be there all the time, or most of the time. I don’t want to consider it a chain or anything. I like to be hands-on, and it’s hard to be hands-on with a couple of places.”
Bianchi originally opened Owsley’s Golden Road seven years ago at 2151 Lawrence Street. At the time, he and his brothers also owned Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom and Quixote’s True Blue, which neighbored each other on Welton Street in Five Points. Close to two years later, he sold Cervantes’ and its neighboring space, which is now Cervantes’ Other Side, and Bianchi relocated Quixote’s to where Owsley’s was. Because the building at 2151 Lawrence Street was slated to be demolished to make way for condos, Quixote’s relocated to the former Bender’s Tavern space at 314 East 13th Avenue.
By Jon Solomon
http://www.westword.com/music/jay-bianchi-is-resurrecting-owsleys-golden-road-in-boulder-6619652
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LITTLE BIG TOWN RESPONDS TO CONTROVERSY ABOUT NEW SONG ‘GIRL CRUSH’
An Idaho radio station morning show reportedly has pulled Little Big Town’s new song, “Girl Crush,” because of complaints over the provocative lyrics, but the singer says the song is being misunderstood.
Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town said the song is more about “a girl saying [to her ex], ‘Why do you love her and not me’ and not about a lesbian relationship.”
“The lyric of ‘Girl Crush’ is written in kind of a sexy way. So some people might turn it off when they get to the ‘I want to taste your lips’ and all that. But once they get to the hook they go, ‘Oh,'” Fairchild said this week on the Bobby Bones show on The Big 98. “You’ve got to lean in a little bit, but the fans are really loving this one.”
Fairchild, who sings lead on the song, acknowledged to ABC News that the song is provocative, but the band never thought twice about recording it.
“[The songwriter] Liz [Rose] said, ‘Hey, I gotta play this song we just wrote. You guys’ll never cut it, but I gotta play it for you,'” Fairchild told ABC News. “I couldn’t get finished with the song, listening to it, before I could say, ‘Can we please have this song?'”
However, Alana Lynn, a morning host at 104.3 FM in Boise, Idaho, told The Washington Post she stopped playing the song during her morning time slot because of complaints from parents.
The Boise station did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for comment.
Along with the lyrics mentioned above, the song boasts lines like, “I want her long blond hair, I want her magic touch … cause maybe then, you’d want me just as much. … I got a girl crush.”
The move to cut the song’s play time had Bones, who hosts a syndicated radio show, up in arms when he spoke to the band this week.
“It shouldn’t even matter if it’s a lesbian song, is the first thing,” Bones said. “[‘Girl Crush’] is one of the Top 10 sellers for weeks and weeks and weeks — and people on the radio are still afraid to play it.”
The song is also a bona fide hit, close to the top of the iTunes charts.
Fairchild told The Washington Post that it’s “shocking to me” that people focus on one lyric — about one girl wanting to kiss another.
“The close-mindedness of that, when that’s just not what the song was about,” Fairchild said. “But what if it were? It’s just a greater issue of listening to a song for what it is.”
By Michael Rothman | Good Morning America