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JOE ROMEO & THE ORANGE COUNTY VOLUNTEERS performing at The Raconteur on Thursday, May 7 2009.

Influenced in equal parts by Leonard Cohen, Kris Kristofferson, Robinson Crusoe, and Dalton, Patrick Swayzes dive bar doorman in the 1989 film Roadhouse, low fi, quasi-country, folk singer Joe Romeo fills his set with a rustic eclectism thats funnier than he is generally given credit for. But his lyrical preoccupations remain tragic--God, loss of love, drinking, death. Romeo is not merely in a different league from most of his peers; he's scarcely even playing the same game.