Today’s post comes courtesy of SwaggerTooth correspondent from the Pacific Northwest, T-Mos. Last week he saw Brother Ali perform in Eugene, Oregon and sent us some pictures, videos and even a show review. WHAT WHAT!

Review:

“This past week Brother Ali was in town as part of the FRESH AIR TOUR featuring Brother Ali, Evidence (from Dilated Peoples fame), and Toki Wright. He did an in-store signing before the show at a local CD record shop down the street from my house, so I figured I’d go down check it out.  I took the insert poster from my copy of US and had him sign it.  The show was at a pretty tight venue in Eugene, WOW hall. It’s a non-profit music venue in town that has converted an old dance hall (church type building) into an all ages venue for music and art. The whole place is run only by volunteers and they manage to get some decent national acts coming through their doors.  The one down side is that the bar is downstairs in the basement and there is no alcohol allowed upstairs (on account of the under age crowd), so you have to run down stairs and chug a beer real quick between acts or watch on a shitty TV at the bar.  Anyways, the show was pretty good. BK-ONE was holding it down on the turntables all night, acting as the DJ for the rest of the guys and spinning some sweet tracks between sets. Toki Wright, who I wasn’t a big fan of before this, did pretty well and was able to get the crowd pretty hyped for the next guys.  I watched Evidence from the bar as I figured I’d get a couple of sweet local micro brews in the belly before Ali.  Ali came out and killed it, the place was packed and there was a lot of love for the Brother man.  As always he put on a great show playing some of his older classics as well as a few notable tracks from the new album. I recommend if you are near any of the stops on the tour to check it out. I managed to get some pretty decent video clips of a couple of tracks…”

Holding it down for the Swagger Tooth Nation in the pacific northwest.

T-Mos

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