BAND: Sabra Laval VENUE: J&J's Pizza TIME: 8 p.m.As previously discussed, the dark, smoke-filled "Old Dirty Basement" of J&J's is the perfect place to hear the jazzy, ghostly-folk sounds of Sabra Laval. Her warm, smoky vocals harmonized perfectly with pedal steel, guitar, upright bass and even the sound of creaking wood as people clomped around upstairs. Laval's emotionally-charged lyrics about black birds, blue moons and bad love came across like haunting lullabies conjuring image
Daniel Folmer, Dust Congress, Glen Farris, and Sabra Laval
J&J's Pizza, Denton
October 17, 2009
Better than: watching OU-TX fans yell at one another on the parking lot that was I-35E.
Danny FulgencioDust Congress' Nick Foreman. And a cello. For more of Danny Fulgencio's shots from Saturday night, check the slideshow here.​Were it not a music venue, the dirty basement at J&J's Pizza would be the kind of place you might expect to find small skeletons. From its stained concrete floors