Mark Olson + Ingunn Ringvold
Dean Owens
The Slaughtered Lamb, 7 December 2010
When I heard Mark Olson, one of the voices of under-appreciated alternative country pioneers The Jayhawks, was playing The Slaughtered Lamb, I pictured some old creaky pub, filled with work-hardened men nursing their beers, much like its namesake in the horror film An American Werewolf In London. The truth is, while the name is a homage to that film (check out the pentagram on the wall in the picture above, as in the classic pub scene), it's really a trendy bar with a small living room-like venue in its basement. In fact as I first walked in people were sitting comfortably in the large sofas filling the room, facing the stage, and listening to suitably soothing acoustic music fitting the coffeehouse atmosphere.
