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Ted Wulfers
Schubas, Chicago
Thursday, May 25, 2006

Local singer-songwriter Ted Wulfers, who used to gallop around as Ted Wulfers & Beggars Bridge, has a new pair of old shoes on his latest album, Cheap Liquor.

Wulfers’ past incarnation, frankly, was anonymous. He was an agreeable adult-pop songwriter, with a penchant for blending in so much he wasn’t noticeable (Where’s Wulfers?). Now with scraggly facial hair and a broken-bottle album title, he’s looking to kick that blasé demeanor to the curb and sing about loose women and whiskey, usually together (“She Bought Me A Drink”). A skeptic might point out how manufactured his new image seems, and he really reaches with the “When I get drunk, I go to Wisconsin” chorus of “Fishnet Woman,” but these eight songs are an identity worth pursuing. Not having one previously probably brought him to cheap booze in the first place.

Wulfers opens for Hayes Carll.

— Steve Forstneger

Click here to download Ted Wulfer’s “S.W.E.L.L.”

Category: Stage Buzz, Weekly