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| Unless otherwise noted, all concerts are held at: AMSDconcerts 4650 Mansfield Street San Diego, CA 92116 (619) 303-8176 All shows start at 7:30 pm, unless otherwise noted |
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| Jimmy Webb - Apr 10 @ 7:30 |
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An Evening Of Songs And Stories
Jimmy Webb, best known for writing instant classics such as “By The Time I Get To Phoenix",
“Wichita Lineman”, “Galveston”, and “Where’s The Playground, Susie” (Glen Campbell),
“MacArthur Park” and “Didn’t We” (Richard Harris), “Up, Up and Away” and “This Is Your Life”
(the Fifth Dimension), “Worst That Could Happen” (The Brooklyn Bridge), “All I Know” (Art
Garfunkel), “Easy For You To Say” (Linda Ronstadt) and many other multi-million selling songs,
continues to write songs that are as carefully crafted and magical as the earlier ones. Waylon
Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson hit #1 in the late eighties with
another Webb standard, “The Highwayman,” a ballad which won him yet another Grammy for Best
Country Song of the Year, and a CMA Award for Single Of The Year. Linda Ronstadt, who has
recorded a multitude of his songs throughout her recording career, included four of his efforts on
her double platinum album, Cry Like A Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind. With a discography that
reads like a “Who’s Who” in the music world, and a list of awards the envy of the greatest
composers in history, Webb’s songs continue to grace a multitude of major recording artists’
albums, from Tony Bennett and Rosemary Clooney, to Urge Overkill, Reba McEntire, and R.E.M..
Jimmy Webb, best known for writing instant classics such as “By The Time I Get To Phoenix",
“Wichita Lineman”, “Galveston”, and “Where’s The Playground, Susie” (Glen Campbell),
“MacArthur Park” and “Didn’t We” (Richard Harris), “Up, Up and Away” and “This Is Your Life”
(the Fifth Dimension), “Worst That Could Happen” (The Brooklyn Bridge), “All I Know” (Art
Garfunkel), “Easy For You To Say” (Linda Ronstadt) and many other multi-million selling songs,
continues to write songs that are as carefully crafted and magical as the earlier ones. Waylon
Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson hit #1 in the late eighties with
another Webb standard, “The Highwayman,” a ballad which won him yet another Grammy for Best
Country Song of the Year, and a CMA Award for Single Of The Year. Linda Ronstadt, who has
recorded a multitude of his songs throughout her recording career, included four of his efforts on
her double platinum album, Cry Like A Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind. With a discography that
reads like a “Who’s Who” in the music world, and a list of awards the envy of the greatest
composers in history, Webb’s songs continue to grace a multitude of major recording artists’
albums, from Tony Bennett and Rosemary Clooney, to Urge Overkill, Reba McEntire, and R.E.M..
Webb is the only artist to ever receive Grammy awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration. He's a member of the National Academy of Popular
Music Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, the Nashville Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, and, according to BMI, his “By The Time I Get To Phoenix,” has been the
third most performed song in the last fifty years, with “Up, Up and Away” on the same list in the top thirty. Webb’s, “Wichita Lineman” has been
listed in MOJO Magazine’s worldwide survey of the best one hundred singles of all time in the top fifty, and was singled out in the Oct/Nov 2001 issue
of Blender as “The Greatest Song Ever.” The National Academy of Songwriters also named Jimmy as 1993’s recipient of their Lifetime Achievement
Award.
This concert will be an engaging mix of the songwriter performing his own songs and telling stories about them and the famous artists whose
recordings have sold many millions of copies of those songs.
Music Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, the Nashville Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, and, according to BMI, his “By The Time I Get To Phoenix,” has been the
third most performed song in the last fifty years, with “Up, Up and Away” on the same list in the top thirty. Webb’s, “Wichita Lineman” has been
listed in MOJO Magazine’s worldwide survey of the best one hundred singles of all time in the top fifty, and was singled out in the Oct/Nov 2001 issue
of Blender as “The Greatest Song Ever.” The National Academy of Songwriters also named Jimmy as 1993’s recipient of their Lifetime Achievement
Award.
This concert will be an engaging mix of the songwriter performing his own songs and telling stories about them and the famous artists whose
recordings have sold many millions of copies of those songs.
| Houston Jones - Apr 17 @ 7:30 |
| Americana / Folk / Bluegrass |
| "A wonderful gem of a band...truly exceptional music...These guys are a rare treat!" ~ Billboard.com |
Houston Jones is a San Francisco based high-octane Americana band. Their latest
CD Jericho Road shows what happens when virtuoso agnostics set out to record a
gospel record. Looking at their history, the resulting rich mixture of the sacred and
the secular was pre-ordained:
Travis Jones (lead vocals, guitar), began performing as a child accompanying his
mother on gospel tours in the South. He honed his soulful delivery in his years as a
child preacher in churches around his native Shreveport, only to throw down his
bible when he saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan.
Chris Kee (bass, cello, and guitar) has a degree in ethnomusicology from Yale.
Balancing his bookishness with Americana street cred, Kee is a regular with Peter
Rowan’s Free Mexican Air Force, a long time cohort of Telecaster wizard Jim
Campilongo, and has performed with Jim Lauderdale and Buddy Miller.
CD Jericho Road shows what happens when virtuoso agnostics set out to record a
gospel record. Looking at their history, the resulting rich mixture of the sacred and
the secular was pre-ordained:
Travis Jones (lead vocals, guitar), began performing as a child accompanying his
mother on gospel tours in the South. He honed his soulful delivery in his years as a
child preacher in churches around his native Shreveport, only to throw down his
bible when he saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan.
Chris Kee (bass, cello, and guitar) has a degree in ethnomusicology from Yale.
Balancing his bookishness with Americana street cred, Kee is a regular with Peter
Rowan’s Free Mexican Air Force, a long time cohort of Telecaster wizard Jim
Campilongo, and has performed with Jim Lauderdale and Buddy Miller.
Glenn Houston (lead guitars) was the founding lead guitarist of the Waybacks. Glenn was voted 2009 Best Guitarist by the Northern
California Bluegrass Society.
Peter Tucker (drums), who (along with Kee) was in the original rhythm section of the Waybacks, has deep Americana roots , having
performed and recorded with wide array of Americana musicians, including Tim Hardin, Richie Havens, the Beau Brummels, Warren Zevon
and Skunk Baxter.
Henry Salvia (keyboards, accordion) has performed with the Johnny Nocturne Band, Bo Diddley, Rickie Lee Jones and Big Jay McNeeley.
Houston Jones has been a hit at every festival they’ve played, including Strawberry, Telluride, Sisters, American River, and at the MillPond
Festival where they shared sets with the great Joe Craven. They were voted both “best new discovery” and “best vocalist” at Strawberry.
The band is currently being played on over 70 radio stations throughout North America and beyond. Billboard.com praised their “Wonderful
original tunes;” Dirty Linen said “No one delivers the goods quite like HJ... HJ remains one of the West Coast’s most talented and
entertaining bands.” Bob Brown, club owner and manager of Huey Lewis, says they are “as good as any singing and picking I’ve heard in my
thirty years in the music business."
California Bluegrass Society.
Peter Tucker (drums), who (along with Kee) was in the original rhythm section of the Waybacks, has deep Americana roots , having
performed and recorded with wide array of Americana musicians, including Tim Hardin, Richie Havens, the Beau Brummels, Warren Zevon
and Skunk Baxter.
Henry Salvia (keyboards, accordion) has performed with the Johnny Nocturne Band, Bo Diddley, Rickie Lee Jones and Big Jay McNeeley.
Houston Jones has been a hit at every festival they’ve played, including Strawberry, Telluride, Sisters, American River, and at the MillPond
Festival where they shared sets with the great Joe Craven. They were voted both “best new discovery” and “best vocalist” at Strawberry.
The band is currently being played on over 70 radio stations throughout North America and beyond. Billboard.com praised their “Wonderful
original tunes;” Dirty Linen said “No one delivers the goods quite like HJ... HJ remains one of the West Coast’s most talented and
entertaining bands.” Bob Brown, club owner and manager of Huey Lewis, says they are “as good as any singing and picking I’ve heard in my
thirty years in the music business."
| Rory Block - Apr 26 @ 7:30 |
- "Today she [Rory Block] is widely regarded as the top female interpreter and authority on traditional
country blues worldwide." ~ The Blues Foundation - Five Time W.C. Handy Award Winner
- "Rory Block has been an inspiration to me since we started out years ago. Her guitar playing,
singing and songwriting are some of the most soulful in traditional and modern blues." ~ Bonnie
Raitt - "... Rory Block is currently stretching the limits...hugely talented... She is one of our national
treasures." ~ The New York Blues & Jazz Society - “Rory Block is the blues... one of the music’s few living legends.” ~ All Music Guide album pick
- "A living landmark, the finest contemporary purveyor of the Mississippi Delta Country Blues
tradition..." ~ Berkeley Express - "...one of the world's most important preservers of the roots of American music ...a national
treasure in the form of an uncompromising mature blues artist." ~ Guitar Extra - "Her playing is perfect , her singing otherworldly as she wrestles with ghosts, shadows and legends."
~ The New York Times - "...Rory Block is one of the greatest living acoustic blues artists... she can hold her own with the
legends who inspired her." ~ Blues Revue - "If you like music steeped in tradition and genuine feeling, this is your woman." ~ People Magazine
- "Some of the most singular and affecting Country Blues anyone, man or woman, black or white, old
or young, has cut in recent years." ~ Rolling Stone
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