New gig: Benefit BBQ for children with autism
The band and I will be playing at a great event coming up on April 26 at Romaine’s Restaurant in Northboro, MA. Richard Romaine and friends are a throwing a big party to raise money to help children with autism. While I would like to say that they best part is the band, I have to admit that all-you-can-eat BBQ sounds pretty darn good!
Tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for children.
For more details on BarbeCure, check out www.barbecure.org
Tags: amy black, autism, barbecue, charity, live music
New Bull Run show and new music: March 28!
Amy Black and the Red Clay Rascal’s next show is on March 28 at the Bull Run Restaurant in Shirley, Mass. We should be safe from snow at that point. Of course, you never know in New England!
I’m fired up about this show. We are going to perform some new music (new to us at least). You can expect to hear many of the songs we’ve been performing including: Red Dirt Girl by Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt’s Love Me Like a Man and Angel from Montgomery, Move it On Over by Hank Williams, The Johnny Cash trio Big River, Folsom Prison and Walking the Blues.
Plus, you’ll hear newly added songs by Patty Loveless, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Susan Tedeschi, Alison Krauss & Robert Plant and more from Bonnie and Emmylou.
It’s going to be a great night of music. I can’t wait for it and I hope you will be there to enjoy! Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. You can buy yours by calling 877-536-7190. Visit the Bull Run website for more information.
If you haven’t checked out our YouTube channel, you can now. You’ll see several videos from the Bull Run performance in September and from our recent December performance at J.P. O’Hanlon’s.
Best wishes for a GREAT 2009!
Amy
Tags: Alison Krauss, amy black, Amy Black and the Red Clay, Amy Black and the Red Clay Rascals, blues, Bonnie Raitt, Bull Run Restaurant, Emmylou Harris, folk, roots music
New show, December 6 at J.P. O’Hanlon’s
Looking to get out of the house and have some fun? Come out and see me and the band on December 6 at J.P. O’Hanlon’s in Ayer, Mass. It’s a great venue, everyone gets a good seat and you’ll love the food. Please call 978-772-9282 to reserve your seats. Seating is limited (only 60 seats). I look forward to seeing you there.
Tags: amy black, jp o'hanlon's, live music, red clay rascals
Going electric at the Acton Jazz Cafe blues jam
If you’ve been to one of my shows, you’ve heard Fred Bement go to town on the harmonica. The guy can play! Well Fred recently connected me with a friend of his who was interested in collaborating. His name is Jeff Purchon. He’s the nicest guy and is an incredibly talented guitar player with some heavy duty experience under his belt. Here’s a little blurb from his resume…
Jeff moved to London to become professional guitarist at age 21. He toured with Noel Redding (ex Jimi Hendrix), Clive Bunker (Jethro Tull) and in his career has jammed / gigged with Robert Palmer, Ginger Baker, Buddy Miles, Steve Holly (Wings) and many others.
Jeff has recorded in major studios including Abbey Road, Sun Studios (London), De Lane Lea, Roundhouse, Trident, Air London etc. In the 80’s in the US he founded and toured with Memphis Train, a Boston-based blues band playing at the Crossroads music festival in Nashville, House of Blues and other prestigious gigs.
These days Jeff still jams in three continents with various bands depending where he is. At the last Austin NAMM show in 2007, Jeff played with Buddy Miles and Vernon Reid of Living Color.
Pretty impressive.
This past Thursday night I joined Jeff and four guys that he pulled together-Ron Pastore on bass, Glenn Watkins on keys, Stanley Swan on drums, and another guy (name escapes me) on the organ-and over an hour we worked on four songs. We headed over to the Acton Jazz Cafe’s blues jam and rocked the house.
One of the guys recorded a few of the songs and sent them around today. While the mix isn’t great (and I was struggling to hear myself in the monitor), you can get a good sense of how we sounded.
Here’s Love Me Like a Man written by Chris Smither…
I should have more recordings to share (from the practice soon). I will post them here as well.
I hope to do something with these guys again at some point and will let you know when I do!
Tags: blues, Bonnie Raitt, jeff purchon, live music, love me like a man
