Sandman The Rapping Cowboy at Hideout Tonight #Album Review

Only merch table I've ever seen selling silk screened pillow cases!!   Check out an even odder assortment of one of a kind merch (beaver skull & birds nest anyone?) and more standard fare here.

We gave you a "save the date" heads up, last month, and today's the day.   The Sandman (AKA:   Chris Sand or The Rappin' Cowboy) will be playing tonight at Hideout!   He opens for local fav, Tony Rogers.   We'll be there to shoot the show and are setting up interviews as well.

Sandman's father to a recent baby girl, Stevie.

We got permission to repost this gorgeous shot of Sandman's wife, Hana, and new daughter, Stevie....Yes, there's life after birth, and tattooed parents rock!!

Check out our Pinterest Board all about How Creatives Parent and How Parents Create, for our original video interviews with parents in bands, theatre and other creative fields, on how they strike a balance and how becoming parents influences their creative work and vice versa....http://pinterest.com/chiilmama/

Tony Rogers

Sandman

Thu 4/26

9:00 pm

21+

$8-$10

Come on out for some hilarious folk-rap-country that defies description.    Chris Sand's documentary screened at Facets last year and he gave a mini concert in conjunction with the film.   Here's our film review and photo filled feature about Roll Out Cowboy in particular here  And more prior coverage.

We thoroughly enjoy his 2008 CD, Rough Notes from Otter Cove.   Sandman is pretty prolific and has a number of CDs out, but he said this is a good one to start with and kicked us a copy.  It has some kid appropriate tunes and more mature, irreverent material as well.   Purchase your own copy here or at Hideout tonight.

Rustic and playful. Highly listenable lo-fi production by Froseph Kujawa. Includes a limited edition 24-page lyrics booklet, handset and pressed on a 130-year-old print machine.

Tracklist
1. Crazy Animals
2. The Hermit
3. PO Box 7
4. Addie Paul
5. Artesian Lover
6. I Love Everyone
7. Natty Joy
8. Shelly The Sea Turtle
9. Wedding Song Man
10. Unabomber
11. End Of America

My kids adored Shelly The Sea Turtle and Crazy Animals, but at ages 8 & 11, they dug the silly, dark ones like Unabomber just as much.   There's nothing too over the top.  Addie Paul and my favorite, Natty Joy, are catchy and likely to get stuck in your head, when your brain goes into screensaver mode and you're not actively thinking of something else.   



Check out the artists' sites here, for song samples, merch and more.   
Chris Sand
Tony Rogers


Check out The Hideout's main site here for tickets and further information.

Final Day To See Sandman The Rappin' Cowboy LIVE at Facets

It's the final day to meet The Sandman http://www.facets.org/pages/cinematheque/films/july2011/rolloutcowboy.php


Check out ChiIL Mama's prior coverage of Roll Out Cowboy HERE.

ROLL OUT, COWBOY

WINNER Best Documentary Seattle True Independent Film Fest

WINNER Best Indie Doc Edmonton Intl Film Fest

"A charming, intimate portrait of one of America's most unusual entertainers... sometimes awkward, sometimes joyful, and always entertaining"

  -Onion AV Club

"Affectionate"

  -TimeOut Chicago

"Director-cinematographer Elizabeth Lawrence treats her likable, talented subject with the bemused affection he deserves"

  -Chicago Reader

Recommended!

  -NewCity Chicago

His tour bus is broken, he bought his house for a thousand bucks, and his hometown's population is 120 and shrinking. Chris "Sandman" Sand is the face of the nostalgic American West, except for one thing: He looks like a Woody Guthrie protégé but raps like LL Cool J. Roll Out, Cowboy follows this country/hip-hop musician as he tours the country during the during the last U.S. presidential election. When hip hop music hit the airwaves of the North Dakota badlands, where Sand grew up, he learned to rap and rhyme to the pulse of baling machines and irrigation pumps. From indie rock groupies in city clubs to flirty grannies grinding against him in rural community dance halls, no one can resist Sandman's winsome charms or the genre-blending and endearing style that's uniquely his own. Chris Sand's story is about one man's daily effort to make his voice heard.

Roll Out, Cowboy is a one of a kind documentary, that not only showcases the musical fusion of country/hip hop/folk/rap/ styles, but also presents a part of America that remains immune to marketing campaigns, record labels, and consumerist politicking, as if it were the truth. Director Elizabeth Lawrence in her outstanding debut film, allows us to follow Sandman the Rappin' Cowboy as he travels from red state to blue and back again, blending discordant music genres into a style uniquely his own. This is not the romanticized, Roy Rogers version of the American frontier. This is Sandman. The cowboy who raps. 

Directed by Elizabeth Lawrence, 2010, U.S.A., 75 mins.

Filmmaker Elizabeth Lawrence will be here in person for a Q&A for all of the screenings from Friday, July 22 - Sunday, July 31st!

In addition, the Rappin' Cowboy Chris "Sandman" Sand will be here (as well as perform!) for all of the screenings from Friday, July 22-Sunday, July 24th, accompanied by producer, Warner Boutin. 

Sandman The Rappin' Cowboy LIVE at Facets all Weekend

Shots of ChiIL Mama, Sagezilla & Sandman and filmmaker, Elizabeth Lawrence at Facets last night at Roll Out Cowboy premier.


Sagezilla and ChiIL Mama had a ton of fun last night at the opening of the film, Roll Out Cowboy at Facets Multimedia.   We were surprised and impressed with the documentary by local Chicago filmmaker, Elizabeth Lawrence and with Chris Sand, The Rappin' Cowboy.    

This movie is a funny, quirky look at a slice of pure Americana.   It takes the viewer into Dunn, the depressed small town in North Dakota that Chris calls home, and then beyond as we follow him on tour and into a new day job as a trucker.   


We love that he was able to buy a home in Dunn for $1,000, and dug hearing about it's colorful history of 2 prior male musician owner who both killed themselves there.    Sandman plans to turn the tide of this home's checkered past with his new wife, Hana Kasm.    They're expecting a new baby Sand in 6 months.   Maybe we can expect a newbie in the kindie community, too?    We haven't seen any full sized CD, rappin' cowboy, kids' indie music yet.   Hint hint.


We don't want to give too many spoilers, but Chris has gone from wrecking an 18 wheeler full of fish on his first run, to still being gainfully employed as a trucker and producing prolifically as a musician.    In fact, his trucking partner that he tandem drives with dropped him in Chicago for his film premier weekend and will scoop him back up on his run to Canada after Sunday's show.   Sandman, the rappin' cowboy is a colorful cult character who is endearing and genuine and deserves to get noticed. 


This makes for a better parents night out, but my 8 year old enjoyed it.   There is some language and minor adult themes, though nothing that would freak your kid out and scar them for life.    We happened to think the Sandman's more irreverent, wild stuff was hilarious!  


And I can honestly say, he has the first merch table I've EVER seen selling pillowcases!!    You can actually rest your melon on a Sandman silkscreened pillowcase while you play his CDs.   Pretty cool.   Check him out.


  


Chicago's premiere of Roll Out, Cowboy this month at Facets: runs July 22-31 only!

Buy tix here or at the door: http://rolloutcowboy.eventbrite.com/.    Last night's 9pm show was a full house.

The Rappin' Cowboy will be there through Sunday's showings (singing live songs!), along with the doc's dynamic director Elizabeth Lawrence and fab producer Warner Boutin.

Check out Chris Sand's blog HERE.

This is his latest excerpt:

Friday, July 22, 2011

Greetings from Chicago! Roll Out, Cowboy begins its theatrical release tonight, and lot's of press is coming in.

Chicago Tribune just gave it 3/4 stars and a lovely review which I'll post a link to when I find it online.

NPR (WBEZ locally) did this super-pro job: http://www.wbez.org/episode-segments/2011-07-21/roll-out-cowboy-roams-and-raps-across-midwest-89464

Check out Roll Out Cowboy's home page for reviews, news and upcoming showings.

The Sandman gave us a copy of Rough Notes From Otter Cove, one of his CDs that has a few kids tunes on it as well as more mature material, which we'll be checkin' out and reviewing.

Also check out Facets Multimedia.   We've volunteered here monthly since 1990 and the kids can often be seen helping out with tickets and concessions.    Facets features a wide range of multicultural and indie films in the cinema and have one of the largest video rental libraries in the nation.    You can join for a minimal monthly fee (varies depending on the number of DVDs you want at a time).   The monthly video membership then gets you two free tickets to anything showing.