Camp Street Schedule
Tune into the Camp
Street Cafe & Store Music hour.
Every Saturday morning at 8:30 on KIVY 92.7 FM
All shows start at 8:00 PM unless otherwise mentioned
| New reservation policy at Camp Street Cafe. Reservations will guarantee the reservation holder a seat, but not a specific seat. Seating will be general admission, first come first serve, with doors opening at 7:00pm |
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The Gillette Brothers $15.00
New CD "Many Long Miles To Ride” The
Gillette Brothers..."don't just play and sing skimming the surface
of their song. Winners of the Winners
Academy
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$20.00 + 2.00 tax/handling = $22.00 Total Carolyn Wonderland has the goods. A triple threat with her diverse songwriting, soulful vocals, and guitar goddess status - all featured on over twenty CDs, six of which are her releases - she has a pedigree in this business that's hard to match. A bit of a renegade, she likes to incorporate elements of Blues, Country, Swing, Zydeco, Surf, Gospel, Soul, and some nights, maybe even a Cumbia into the musical mix. Recent years have seen her stretching out musically working some expert whistling and scat singing into her shows. In addition to her trusty guitar, "Patty," Carolyn has been regularly playing her trumpet, and even occasionally the accordion, mandolin, or keys...she is threatening to take up nose flute if someone doesn’t stop her... |
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Born outside Montreal in Sweetsburg, Quebec, Lynn Miles grew up in a musical home. Her father played the harmonica and listened to his jazz collection while her mother was a lover of both opera and country music. Miles’ mother recalled once that she knew when Lynn had finally fallen asleep in her crib: Lynn stopped singing. During her elementary school years, Miles learned guitar, violin, flute and piano. She began performing in public at around the age of sixteen and when she was in her early twenties she studied with an opera singer to strengthen her voice and enrolled for a time at Carleton University in Ottawa where she studied classical music history and theory. Years later, Miles put this training to good use while serving as a voice teacher at the Ottawa Folklore Center. While at the center, she taught voice to many students including a then fourteen-year-old Alanis Morrisette. The lessons came just prior to the making of Morrisette’s first album. Though Miles had been writing her own songs since the age of 10, she didn’t end up recording any of her own material until 1987 when she cut 9 original compositions for a demo at Happyrock Studio in Ottawa. An avid reader and music-lover, those early recordings were inspired by the books she loved to read, and the music she listened to on the radio. Miles continues to draw inspiration from music and literature to this day. On her latest album (Love Sweet Love) for example, the opening track, “Flames of Love,” was inspired by a long period of reading Sufi poetry. "I’m fascinated by the way the Sufis write about love," Miles says. "Their love is spiritual, and I reinterpreted it and wrote ‘Flames of Love,’ about jumping in the fire, Lynn Miles letting go and not being afraid and letting it get hot and not caring about what other people think. Just really going for it." The idea – and the song itself – is exhilarating and exciting, yet full of hidden corners and alleyways from where the joy can be blindsided without notice. But as Miles notes, "You don't learn from happiness." If that's true, one gets the sense that Miles has learned a lot. In a career that has seen her move from Ottawa to Nashville to Los Angeles and back to Ottawa, and release albums as varied as the slick Night in a Strange Town (co-produced by Larry Klein, of Shawn Colvin and Joni Mitchell fame, and featuring renowned west-coast studio musicians David Piltch, Dean Parks, John Cody and Tal Bergman) and the stark Unravel, Miles has consistently been unflinching in putting it all out there: the unbridled ecstasy of new-found love, the fragile process of sweeping up the pieces when it breaks. The accolades, meanwhile, continue to pour in. Her 1996 album, Slightly Haunted, was a Billboard Top 10 Pick of the Year. Unravel (released 2001) was praised by critics – All Music Guide describing it as "sounding as if it's been produced by Daniel Lanois in an Appalichian town" and "a diamond in the rough." Canadian folk-music icon Valdy once said, "I'm sorry for all the heartache she has to go through in order to get those juices going, but, yeah, she's marvelous." The New York Times may have said it best: "Lynn Miles makes being forlorn sound like a state of grace." Her latest album, Love Sweet Love (Red House Records – February 7, 2006), is a road album. Songs like “Night Drive”, “Sweet and Tender Heart”, “8 Hour Drive” and “Never Coming Back” trace the metaphorical journey of the human heart, sketching a roadmap of modern relationships and heartache. Miles recorded Love Sweet Love with a first-rate collection of Canadian musicians: Unravel producer, guitarist, longtime-friend and collaborator Ian LeFeuvre and drummer Peter Von Althen (both of the Canadian band Starling); Chelsea Bridge double-bassist John Geggiem; Prairie Oyster guitarist Keith Glass and violinist James Stephens all lend their talents to Love Sweet Love. The result of this collaboration is a warm, hopeful sound in perfect harmony with Miles’ smart, heartbreaking lyrics. |
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$15.00 + 1.50 tax/handling = $16.50 Total Singer/songwriter Dana Cooper has wowed audiences throughout the U.S. and Europe recently with tunes from his newest album, Made of Mud, to be released on September 13th on King Easy Records. Cooper's ingenious guitar work and gutsy harmonica continue to augment his passionate voice and insightful lyrics. This collection of eleven songs produced by Richard McLaurin features acclaimed Nashville talents Dave Jacques, Paul Griffith, Eric Fritsch, Steve Hermann and Vickie Hampton. Over the years Dana has released many independent solo albums including the critically acclaimed Miracle Mile on Compass Records. This album was nominated for a Nashville Music Award as "Best Pop Album" and was picked by Performing Songwriter Magazine as one of the top twelve DIY recordings for the year. Cooper's latest CD, Harry Truman Built A Road, was named one of the best records of 2002 by The Tennessean in Nashville and was again chosen as one of the top twelve DIY recordings for that year. |
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$25.00 + 2.50 tax/handling = $27.50 Total Slaid Cleaves. Grew up in Maine. Lives in Texas. Writes songs. Makes Records. Travels around. Tries to be good. |
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$25.00 + 2.50 tax/handling = $27.50 Total The Hot Club of Cowtown is
ELANA JAMES, Fiddle & Vocals
WHIT SMITH, Guitar & Vocals
JAKE ERWIN, Bass & Vocals
Internationally renowned American trio releases new album, WISHFUL THINKING, street date August 18, 2009 (Gold Strike/Thirty Tigers) - World Tour Dates Announced
NEW YORK, NY: August 18, 2009 - From the bright lights of the Grand Ol' Opry to the UK's Glastonbury Festival, to regular appearances on A Prairie Home Companion and festival stages worldwide, the Hot Club of Cowtown has ascended from its unlikely beginnings in NYC's East Village a decade ago to become the premier ambassador of hot jazz and Western swing through sheer tenacity, virtuosity and the unstoppable power of their breathtaking live show. On WISHFUL THINKING (Gold Strike/Thirty Tigers), Elana James (fiddle, vocals), Whit Smith (guitar, vocals) and upright bassist (Jake Erwin) finally get a chance to ignite all that smoldering energy they've pent up in the five years since their last album (2003's Continental Stomp). Back with more virtuosity and imagination than ever, this time out the Hot Club have amped up the "Hot Club" to match the long-established "Cowtown" in their sound and the result is mesmerizing. With WISHFUL THINKING this trio unveils it's most masterful work yet by showing off an immensely appealing cross-section of it's own disparate influences to fantastic effect. From the combustible "Can't Go on this Way" by Western swing godfather Bob Wills, to the creepy, haunting gypsy violin of James's "Reunion," the Hot Club of Cowtown draws from an unexpected montage of characters and perspectives to create WISHFUL THINKING. Throughout, the music is elegant and imaginative: James's spring-fingered violin solos and Smith's effortless, liquid guitar lines are anchored with power and grace by Erwin's masterful upright bass playing. Perhaps the first thing one notices about WISHFUL THINKING is that while the Hot Club contines to enthrall with it's playful virtuosity and genuine excitement (the "Magic Violin"), the album also reveals a gorgeously darker, more ruminative side not normally associated with the band, laid bare in Smith's ballad "Carry Me Close," Hoagy Carmichael's "Georgia," and the album's stark closer, Elana's "little girl lost" turn at George and Ira Gershwin's "Someone to Watch Over Me."
WISHFUL THINKING is also HCCT's first-ever foray with drums, courtesy of Damien Llanes, a welcome addition. Llanes is especially good in James's "Cabiria," (inspired by one of Fellini's most famous characters and likely the first Western swing toe-tapper about a 1950's Roman prostitute and her search for God, and God's search for her), a song who's noir sophistication could land it on the soundtrack of a European art film as easily as late-night country radio. The shuffling brushwork on the instrumental "Heart of Romain," James's homage to the of French film director Tony Gatlif (known for documentary-style glimpses into Romani music and culture) captures the musical sophistication and sizzle of Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt's Quintette du Hot Club de France. Elsewhere, on Tom Waits "The Long Way Home," Llanes turns what could be a folk ballad on it's head, creating a trance-like mood and bringing an entirely new, and altogether welcome, dimension to the Hot Club's sound. With WISHFUL THINKING, the Hot Club of Cowtown continues to a long run of global successes: lauded on NPR, darlings of international stages from Japan's Fuji Rock Festival to Stagecoach and all points in between, the band continues to evolve in all the right ways since the release of its first album more than ten years ago (1998's Swingin' Stampede). What started out as a magnetic trio of super-focused, globe-trotting hot jazz and Western swing addicts has evolved into to a more-mesmerizing-than ever world-class act. Some things have not changed however, most crucially, as Neil Strauss wrote about them in the New York Times, the band's "lack of irony, self-consciousness and forced hipness in embracing a style of music that so easily lends itself to such things...conscious always that above all else, the music is for dancing and an old-fashioned good time." In the past few years, the Hot Club of Cowtown has been honored with invitations to collaborate (Bryan Ferry), tour with (Bob Dylan) and work alongside (Willie Nelson) more established contemporary artists. These invitations--by Bryan Ferry to interpret his work into a Western swing format (top secret, unreleased), as well as more high-profile international tours, have helped the Hot Club of Cowtown dip a toe into the modern mainstream. Rachel Ray even put them in her cookbook! Recent appearances at mega-festivals from Byron Bay (Australia) to Fuji Rock (Japan) to Glastonbury (UK), Jazz at Lincoln Center's 2009 fall season to Jools Holland's hit BBC TV show "Later" have also helped in bringing the band increasing acclaim and a little closer to the millions waiting to fall in love with their music.
With WISHFUL THINKING, the Hot Club of Cowtown has taken a traditional idiom, dusted it off, transfigured it, and reinterpreted it on its own terms without ever sacrificing taste and simplicity for empty dazzle. The music is blazing and delicate, modern and old-fashioned, all with more energy than ever. But, says James, "Bob Dylan showed me that you have to keep some mystery. You don't want to give it all away. There's power in holding some things back."
The Hot Club of Cowtown has just returned from spring and summer tours in Australia and the UK where they have been capturing daily 4-star reviews both for their live shows and for album reviews (Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, The Independent, The London Times). The Hot Club will be alternately touring the US and abroad through the end of 2009 and well into 2010 in support of WISHFUL THINKING. |
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$15.00 + 1.50 tax/handling = $16.50 Total Born in Ennis, County Clare, along Ireland’s music-rich west coast, Gerry O’Beirne is a renowned singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist (6 and 12 string guitar, tiple, and ukulele, slide guitar among others). Gerry grew up in Ireland and in Ghana in West Africa, and has since lived in England, California, and Mexico. Gerry’s own compositions blend the passion found in traditional music with the freshness of contemporary song. |
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Saturday, March 13th
$20.00 + 2.00 tax/handling = $22.00 Total For more than three decades, Texas singer-songwriter Shake Russell has been entertaining audiences throughout the region with his unique, Americana style of folk-rock. A prolific songwriter, Shake has written or co-written hundreds of melodies. Through the years, Shake’s songs and albums have frequented the Billboard charts, with many, including “Deep in the West,” “You’ve Got a Lover,” “Put Yourself in My Shoes,” “One More Payment,” and “Our Kind of Love” being recorded by such distinguished artists as Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, Ricky Skaggs, Clint Black, and Carolyn Dawn Johnson. Ricky Skagg’s hit recording of “You’ve Got a Lover” has appeared on three of Ricky’s albums. In 1983 Shake was commissioned by the Texas State University in San Marcos to write a song ,''River of Innocence''. for a documentary filmed and produced by the university. In 1986, Shake was asked by longtime friend Bruce Bryant, creative producer at Houston television station KTRK, to compose a theme song commemorating the Texas sesquicentennial. He obliged and wrote the regional favorite, “Traveling Texas.” Weaving sophisticated harmonies through his songs and drawing from various genres, Shake created a style of folk-rock that is uniquely his own. His repertoire consists of a blend of love songs, ballads, and waltzes, skillfully balanced with lively rockabilly tunes and soulful rhythm and blues pieces. His lyrics are imbued with beautiful imagery, catchy phrases, and inventive similes and metaphors. But it is the rich, melodious voice of Shake Russell that breathes life and spirit into the lyrics. |
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Friday, March 26th
$20.00 + 2.00 tax/handling = $22.00 Total With firm roots in traditional country music, the Marshall Ford Swing Band found more than inspiration when studying under Texas fiddle legend, Johnny Gimble. Namely, they met Emily Ann Gimble, Johnny’s granddaughter, who quickly became the band’s co-lead singer and pianist, while also pushing them deep into the wonderful world of Western Swing. Interestingly enough, “Marshall Ford” isn’t a man or the next American motorcar. To these folks, young in years but expansive in their knowledge of a lost art form and from where it came, “Marshall Ford” brings back nostalgia of simpler times, where, at the Marshall Ford Dam (now the Mansfield Dam), men were men, women danced and Western Swing ruled the hills of Texas. February 2010 will see Emily Ann Gimble, Greg Harkins (guitar, vocals), Jeremy Wheeless (guitar), James Gwyn (drums) and Kristopher Wade (upright bass) release their debut album, It’s About Dam Time, an enchanting mix of old-time swing tunes and country- and jazz-infused originals that evoke the spirit of a distant past and showcase the talent and passion of these young musicians.
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Since forming a musical partnership in 1986, when Tom first joined Laurie’s acclaimed band, Grant Street, Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum have recorded 12 albums and performed around the globe. These Grammy-nominated artists (for their 1995 album The Oak and the Laurel) are widely regarded as among the leading lights of modern bluegrass and are highly-prized by their peers as sidemen and producers. International Bluegrass Music Association executive director Dan Hays calls Laurie “one of the preeminent bluegrass and Americana artists of our time.” Acclaimed musician Sam Bush puts it more simply, calling her “a great singer, terrific fiddle player, fine songwriter, and one very good band leader.” Laurie also performed on both the Grammy-award winning, 1997 IBMA album of the year True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe, and the Grammy-nominated Ralph Stanley & Friends’ release Clinch Mountain Country. New England native Tom Rozum "possesses an earnest tenor voice in the vein of contemporary bluegrass great Tim O'Brien, and peels off rhythmically crisp licks on mandolin and guitar." —Derk Richardson In 1998, he released his debut solo album Jubilee on Dog Boy Records. “Without reservation, one of 1998’s most rewarding acoustic releases.” —Amazon.com In 2004, Lewis & Rozum released their third duo album, Guest House (their first for HighTone Records), a characteristically versatile and engaging offering of love songs, laments, social commentary, and freewheelin' fun in the spirit of old-time music. Laurie and Tom pay homage to such eminent influences as Woody Guthrie, Hazel Dickens, Grandpa Jones, and the inimitable Bill Monroe, adding their own distinctive touches to traditional favorites as well as performing several of Laurie’s nonpareil compositions. Laurie and Tom are available for master classes and workshops in fiddle, mandolin, songwriting and vocal arrangements. |
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$20.00 + 2.00 tax/handling = $22.00 Total “Over the course of their twelve years time together and six album output, the pair have succeeded in expanding, and honoring, the time worn male/female dynamic with a natural chemistry that makes their songs seem intuitive and their live shows sizzle with energy.” “[Albert and Gage at Anderson Fair] snaps and pops with musical energy…The recording pulls off [a] wild and eclectic mix while remaining a cohesive and exciting exploration of the roots of popular, mostly American, music.” Sing Out! Magazine “Chris Gage and Christine Albert are masters of the art of the live show…The energy, humor, really fine duet singing, strong leads, original harmonies, strong sense of partnership, personality, and musicality that come across in this set make it a cut above many live projects…” Dirty Linen “Always interesting harmonies, inventive musicianship, and thoughtful writing, sparked with a dash of fun, make [Burnin’ Moonlight] worth investigation for acoustic music and singer/songwriter fans.” Dirty Linen “They can rock, boogie, swing, trot down country roads and stride down sophisticated boulevards and make it all sound as it should: like parts of a unified whole rather than a mishmash of different styles…Albert and Gage have global class, musicality and charm on a CD that plays on the stereo like a house concert in a jewel box.” Houston Press “Christine Albert and Chris Gage demonstrate the art of good album making so effortlessly on Burnin' Moonlight, it's a lesson to remember.” The Austin Chronicle Complete reviews are available at www.albertandgage.com/reviews.htm |
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Saturday, April 17th
$25.00 + 2.50 tax/handling = $27.50 Total "Individually their voices can melt cheese,
and in duet they can do all-purpose welding." Garrison Keillor, host of A Prairie Home Companion
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Kasey is an amazing singer and songwriter. She has a wonderful voice and great singing range. She’s a star. -Beth Gwinn, photographer of the country music community ==================================================== Kasey has an contagious enthusiasm for her music. Its been a pleasure to witness her growth as a writer, performer, and entertainer. -Mike Clute Nashville Producer ==================================================== “Kasey is a fellow East Texan with dreams much bigger than our state! – Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter Linda Davis =================================================== “As soon as that voice starts it fills up the room. Everybody enjoyed it very much. Definitely a WOW moment” – Wally Knight, Music coordinator Christmas Arts party =================================================== “Kasey’s vocal talents are unmatchable and compete with any major mainstream country artist.” – Mike Martin, Music Director KJCS Radio (Nacogdoches/Lufkin) =================================================== “The great ones make it look easy, and Kasey Lansdale does just that. – Danny Merrell, Operations Manager Clean Channel Radio ((Nacogdoches/Lufkin) ==================================================== “Kasey Lansdale is magnetic….an interprative, soulful performer. A natural talent.” –Saturday 16/May/2009 Pietro Corvi Liberta Italy ==================================================== “Kasey Lansdale sings sweet and sincere.” –Friday 15/May/2009 Pietro Corvi Liberta Italy |
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