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Two disparate media make felicitous bedfellows in A Bloody Show, a performance by singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding and various collaborators: Misfortune, his critically-acclaimed 2005 novel (written under his real name, Wesley Stace; Stace's nom de musique, was taken from a recording of that name by Bob Dylan, who himself copped it from 19th Century American gunfighter John Wesley Hardin); and Songs of Misfortune, a selection of tunes mentioned in the book and recorded that same year by Harding and his a cappella quartet, the Love Hall Tryst. This straightforward, simply-staged Seattle gig, organized in barely a week and included in that city's annual Bumbershoot festival, features readings from the book, principally by Harding and fellow Brit muso Robyn Hitchcock, interspersed with songs from the album performed by the Tryst and a Harding-led rock band known as the Minstrel in the Galleries, with occasional accompaniment by a string quartet. The music comes mostly from traditional British sources, and thus is filled with tales of murder, adultery, and other eternal sins, a fact that the author-musician acknowledges with droll understatement ("We're going to be entering the infanticide portion of the set fairly shortly," he wryly warns the family crowd). Those songs and Leonard Cohen's "Joan of Arc" are masterfully rendered by the singers, bolstered by the use of acoustic guitars, mandolin, and hurdy-gurdy; the rock band, meanwhile, bears a passing resemblance to folk-rock pioneers Fairport Convention even while falling well short of that lofty standard. It's quite an undertaking; while Harding submits that "We didn't screw up too bad," A Bloody Show is actually a rousing success. An extra CD's worth of Harding's demos for the Misfortune material is included with the first 5000 copies. --Sam Graham