Low Cut Connie is the brainchild of Philly ex-teacher Adam Weiner. Adam proclaimed that he “loves all of you motherfuckers” then launched into a sweaty set of straight up rock and roll. Weiner plays piano, you heard right, piano. He tours with this beat up honky tonk piano that I noticed had handles and straps so as to load into the van and stages. It is instrument and prop, Weiner plays in, on, and around the thing, rolling around on top or humping the sides, the piano is in the band. Weiner looks like an inner city Jerry Lee Lewis as he sweats and dives through the set. He is joined by guitar, bass, drums, percussion, and two scantily clad female backup singers ( one played fiddle and rhythm guitar). The music is high energy, with one song teasing Shotgun and then Bang a Gong. The ladies were a sight, writhing and shimmying to compliment Adam, it gave some songs an almost Meatloafian veneer. I’m noticing that musicians are so grateful to be back in front of a live audience, this guy thrives on the personal contact, high fiving anyone who got near him. Good crowd, with an element of fans who knew the word to every song. In the bio of LCC, it seems that he has a superfan in Elton John and Obama.
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