Pre-Show Press: Exit/In

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Complete your weekend with rocking Exit/In triple bill

My Morning Jacket (see related story) is headlining a show tonight at Exit/In, which is reason enough to plunk down the $15 cover charge and come into work a little wobbly tomorrow morning. But rock fans who remain unconvinced should know that the under-card on the bill is every bit as intriguing as the show-concluding Jacket guys.

For one thing, Bobby Bare Jr. is playing. He's morphed from the sweaty, holler-happy, undulating lead singer of the Bare Jr. band to the sweaty, holler-happy, undulating lead singer of Bobby Bare Jr.'s Young Criminals' Starvation League.

The sound is a little more stripped down, but it still rocks unmercifully, and the songs on Jr.'s new From the End of Your Leash album (due Tuesday) are some of the finest he's ever written. Of particular interest is Visit Me in Music City, a tongue-in-cheek examination of an idyllic Nashville that's full of truth (''The world's greatest living guitar pickers/ Can deliver you a pizza or sell you weed'') and lies (''The hills are filled with naked Hee-Haw honeys'').

Tom Heinl will open the whole show, around 9 p.m. Heinl is the forward-thinking innovator of something called ''Stereoke,'' which is actually not so different from karaoke (dang the luck). His oddball new With or Without Me album includes 10 poignant songs (Trailer Fever, Three-Way, Peein' in an Empty, IHOP, etc.) followed by 10 instrumental versions of the same songs.

For the Exit/In show, Heinl will be accompanied only by the karaoke, er, Stereoke versions of the songs. On album, the thing sounds like what might happen if someone pumped deep-voiced Webb Wilder full of morphine, set him on a roller coaster, let him ride a few times, escorted him off and made him sing weird songs before he sobered up. Is that a good thing? Well, it's interesting at least.

Exit/In is at 2208 Elliston Place. Details: 321-3340.

Peter Cooper, Staff Writer

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Thanks, the Tom Heinl bit made me laugh!