A few weeks ago, our local folk/acoustic coffeehouse featured an evening with the Basin Street Shieks, a jug band that appears there regularly, recreating the entire Beatles "White Album," or, as they advertised their effort, the "Shite Album." (They even took a shot at "Revolution #9" ~ not terribly well done, but hilarious nevertheless.)

Although some of the songs were done quite nicely (especially the quieter acoustic pieces), others (including the hardest-rocking numbers) could only be "approximated," given the limits of the jug-band instrumentation. The evening as a whole was an exercise in humor and hubris, and appreciated as such.