barber mack

just found out via myspace that barber mack, which debuts at fredfest on may 7, is actually the "ernest ranglin project" (he's a jamaican jazz gtrist, in case you're wondering) that bassist john shook's been talking about the past few months. brokers bassist mark mcpherson had the same idea around the same time, but shook got there first in terms of actually puttin' some cats _together_ (altho i don't think they've rehearsed yet). also on board: gtrists andrew skates (confusatron) and ron geida (ex-kulcha far i, jasper stone, tuesday jazz at the moon, wednesday whatevah at the wreck room) and drummer josh clark.