We have found ourselves holding t0ugh recently in the court of Joseph Arthur.  Arthur has been on a roll, with his paint-by-music performances and other offerings.  Comes now JA has co-opted Mike Mills (REM) and Bill Dobrow for a new leg of his tour entitled The Ballad of Boogie Christ Act 2.  This band is an animal of a different color, with Arthur, Mills and Dobrow together limning the archetypal blues-boogie-rock trios of the ’60s and early ’70s.  Check it out below when the threesome hits its stride in Pennsylvania last Thursday on I Am The Witness, with Arthur and Mills bouncin’ bass-guitar lines and vocals off of one another.  It’s a throwback pleasure to behold.

“The world is in me, I am not in the world.  There is bliss beyond this world of pleasure and pain.”  Indeed.

Here are the upcoming dates in the East and Quebec for your winter concert enjoyment.