Hey, Everybody! Exciting news. This week I’ll be flying to New York and staying at a hotel in Chelsea, where I’ll be rehearsing with a theatrical team who will be staging my show at Hill Country BBQ in NYC Friday night! It will be quite an experience to work with a director, lighting designer, and stylist to create a total experience, and I’m especially looking forward to getting back on stage with NYC music veterans Jeff Eyrich on upright bass and Steve Kirkman on guitar. Hill Country’s bringing an authentic Texas time to the Big Apple, too—even going so far as to import Blue Bell ice cream and Shiner Bock beer to complement the barbecue and Texas music on their big, lighted stage. It’s going to be such a fun way to celebrate the night after Thanksgiving, so I hope that those of you in the New York area can make it out for supper and/or drinks at the bar, and please spread the word if you know anybody who might be looking for an urban cowboy getaway to shake off that post-Thanksgiving dinner haze.
Then, on Saturday I’ll be revisiting the quaint, colonial town of Bethlehem, PA, amidst the snowy Pocono Mountains, a scene reminiscent of a Norman Rockwell or a Hallmark at this time of the year with the Christmas season in the air and the centuries-old streets all done up in lights. I’ll be opening for Roy Bookbinder at the Godfrey Daniels Theater with its exquisite sound and intimate stage—a true listening room experience that is increasingly rare these days. It was wonderful to see some of you at my last show there back in August, and I hope that you can make it out again Saturday night. We can drink coffee and talk during the intermission after my set, then enjoy the headlining act:
. . . Roy Book Binder has earned his stripes . . . “The Book” traveled with The Rev. Gary Davis in the 60's, re-discovered Pink Anderson and revived his career in the 70's and has been included in The Blues Who's Who & The Big Book of Blues . . . “The Book” left Greenwich Village in 1976, moved into a tour bus and lived on the road for the next 15 years! Roy borrowed from his heroes to become a distinct voice in the Blues and Folk music world. “The stories are as good as the songs,” said The Sydney Morning Herald in Australia . . .
As another grand adventure unfolds before us here at year’s end, I thank you for joining me again on this road less traveled. I’m wishing you and yours another Happy Thanksgiving and many dreams come true this holiday season.
Y’all come!
Friday, November 25
7:15-8:30 p.m.
Hill Country BBQ
30 West 26th Street
New York New York 10010
US 212-255-4544
http://www.hillcountryny.com/
Saturday, November 26
8-8:30 p.m.
7 E. Fourth Street
Bethlehem Pennsylvania 18015
US (215) 867-2390
http://www.godfreydaniels.org/home.aspx