TONIGHT: Jeffrey Lewis @ World Cafe Live

Jeffrey Lewis' lonely, lovelorn songs have grown more nuanced and poetic over the years.

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TONIGHT: Jeffrey Lewis @ World Cafe Live

POSTED: Thursday, October 25, 2012, 3:00 PM

Filed Under: Music Show

By Joachim Zimmermann

Jeffrey Lewis’ lonely, lovelorn songs have grown more nuanced and poetic over the years, but that waggish wit has always been there. Same goes for the quirky topicality and conversational sensibility that reached fuller flower on last year’s A Turn in the Dream-Songs and 2009’s great, mortality-oriented Em Are I. The proof is in The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane (and Other Favorites), a compilation of DIY cassette recordings issued by Rough Trade in 2001 now available on vinyl for the first time, in a 10-year anniversary edition (well, almost) from Don Giovanni records. It’s as good as any excuse for a tour, not that we need any justification for a chance to catch New York’s most entertaining (and most endearingly neurotic) songwriter-cartoonist in action. Hopefully he brings along some of his ingenious “low budget videos” — large-format lyric-illustrating flip-books — which are perhaps the best expression of his twin supertalents.

TONIGHT, Thu., Oct. 25, 8 p.m., $8-$10, with Birdie Busch, World Café Live Upstairs, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com.

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