Sacramento Strip Clubs: Portland duo bringing gritty blues to Blackwater
Thomas was in Seattle, as he and Jack Beisel – they are Hopeless Jack & the Handsome Devil – headed south to Stockton. They play their “lowdown dirty roots ‘n’ roll, really dirty blues,” as Thomas phrased it, Sunday at the Blackwater Cafe.
Hopeless Jack & the Handsome Devil
When: 8 p.m. SundayWhere: Blackwater Cafe, 912 N. Yosemite St., StocktonAdmission: $5Information: (209) 943-6938
A lot of people are almost as curious about “Portlandia” – the satirical TV series that spoofs the duo’s laid-back, progressively correct home base – as they are about Jack & the Devil’s gritty, keep-it-real blues hybrid.
“It’s funny,” Thomas said of the IFC series that features actor-comedian Fred Armisen and rock musician-actor Carrie Brownstein. “There’s some resentment toward it in Portland. Actually, people love it. They say it’s ‘cheesy. … But that one moment was hilarious.’ It’s easy to make fun of Portland. But they haven’t described the Portland I know. The strip clubs and the dirtiness.”