Barrowland Ballroom, GlasgowThis was a rambunctious wake for founding member Jake Black – with their Sopranos’ theme a high point among club and country meldings
Jake Black, one of the founding members of
Alabama 3, died in May this year. The southern-fried, dance-infused country irregulars formed in Brixton in the mid-1990s, yet Black was from Glasgow: this would have been a hometown gig.
Usually, you might say he was here in spirit. But Black, who performed as addled preacher the Very Reverend D Wayne Love, is also here in a more corporeal form, commemorated as an alabaster-white idol in a black suit, gazing out over a raucous, sold-out flock of ravers of all ages.