On election eve, be a good Citizen Cope in SF

October 19, 10:59 AMSF Cultural Events ExaminerKate Cohen

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Citizen Cope.

Citizen Cope, one of music’s more skilled genre-benders, will perform at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre in San Francisco on November 3 as part of his solo acoustic tour.  By now it’s common knowledge that Citizen Cope is legally known as Clarence Greenwood, a stodgy name for the shaggy-haired figure with a talent for brewing reggae, hip hop, folk, and blues into his own potent elixir. 

Greenwood, who camps out in Brooklyn, has released two albums in the last five years that have garnered critical attention: The Clarence Greenwood Recordings (2004), his impeccably crafted opus, and Every Waking Moment (2006), its slightly underwhelming follow-up.  On the heels of his tour this fall, Citizen Cope will release an acoustic album before 2008 is out.

The spare arrangements and ragged vocals in songs like “Son’s Gonna Rise,” “Sideways,” and “Bullet and a Target,” will surely be all the more raw and effecting when sung acoustically.  No doubt he’ll test run new material as well and this is the best time to see it: just Greenwood with his guitar.