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NIgHTSHIfT:
RoSSoN CRow
If you were a country music
fan in LA in the 1940s,
chances were that you found But this new series – Night
yourself more than once at at the Palomino, 1984, Neon
the Riverside Rancho, an Rodeo (Fast Horses, Cornfed
old-school ballroom where For Rosson Crow’s paintings Hogs, and Wild Women), Texas
Tennessee Ernie Ford stomped inspired by the Palomino, it Painting (George Strait) (all
out Merle Travis’s Sixteen is 1984, a little more than a 2007) – revels in places
Tons (1946) and Spade Cooley decade before the club would recently vacated. And nowhere
headlined with his band five shut its doors. The lights are is this more apparent than
nights a week. The Rancho on; the red, white and blue in the artist’s homage to
closed in 1959, and rumour bunting is still bright, if a Jason Rhoades. Crow’s Live
has it that in September of little tattered; the stage is Inside the Black Pussy (2007)
that year the fire department set, and a banjo and guitar canonises Rhoades’s lifestyle
burned it to the ground for a rest in the corner. Still, accumulation, originally
training exercise. Not long no one is around. It’s par installed near Crow’s new digs
after, Cooley murdered his for the course. Crow’s newest in LA, and reminds us that a
wife and was sent to prison. canvases are bigger than ever death must accompany every new
Anyone interested in country and pervaded, even saturated, beginning. Jonathan T.D. Neil
music by then was headed to with absence. For her earlier
the Palomino, a honky-tonk series, like Vacancy at RoSSoN CRoW:
nightclub in North Hollywood. Vargenville, Silent Rooms with
NIGHT AT THe PALomINo,
Carpets So Heavy All Footsteps
26 JANUARy – 29 MARCH,
Are Absorbed (both 2006),
HONOR FRASER, LOS ANGELES
WWW.HONORFRASER.COM
such missing persons were
assumed. After all, baroque
interiors like these have no
Live in the Black
Pussy, 2007, oil, need of people; their original
enamel, spray paint and
occupants left hundreds of
acrylic on canvas,
221 x 305 cm
years ago.
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