Talent I Saw Live That Must Be Seen

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Comment by wiffledust on July 1, 2013 at 1:55pm

what a pretty theater that is, mark!

Comment by Mark Richardson on July 1, 2013 at 12:26pm

We had a local family musical group do a performance at our Winema Theater in town..they were joined by Spanky McFarland of the Spanky and Our Gang group..(later 60's).  Spanky went on to replace Mamma Cass with the Mamma's and Papa's... Only about 50 people attended an incredible show...  "California Dreaming"... and more...

Comment by wiffledust on July 1, 2013 at 1:48am

i love your participation in this, guys! thanks...word gets around, and you're helping folks get more attention!

Comment by Rick Reiley on June 30, 2013 at 11:55am

Parker Millsap and Michael Rose were here a couple of weeks ago. I heard cuts from the new as yet untitled CD. Good Lord it's hands and heads above his last project and I thought that was a fine piece of work. And the Amy Speace/Fullbright video is a fine piece of work itself. 

Comment by John M. Cook on June 30, 2013 at 9:36am

Dave, you and I share some similar taste in singer-songwriters.  I love everyone you mentioned.  I have not been to the PartyShack Outback yet, but my son just moved to Houston this week... so it sounds like I have a reason to come check it out.

Comment by Dave Kelly on June 29, 2013 at 10:28pm

Last weekend I heard Carrie Elkin and Danny Schmidt at Wyldwood House Concerts in Austin.

The weekend before that Raina Rose had her CD release party at the PartyShack OutBack in the Heights here in Houston. Rebecca Loebe was there also.

And the weekend before that it was Sara Hickman at the Bugle Boy in La Grange. She had that old army barrack rocking so hard the roof tried to get up and leave twice.

All the singers are in my 'ToDo' bucket that says I will drive 200 miles one way to hear them play. 

Comment by Dave Kelly on June 29, 2013 at 10:15pm

I   saw Amy earlier this month when she was here in Houston. She is one classy lady and gets better every time I have the good fortune to see her perform. 

Comment by John M. Cook on June 29, 2013 at 8:29pm

Amy Speace (featuring John Fulbright) performs The Sea and The Shore from her new CD How to Sleep in a Stormy Boat (Wind Bone Records 2013).  The song was written by Amy Speace and Robby Hecht... the video was directed by Korby Lenker, and filmed on a bitterly cold day in Nashville, this past January.  The lyrics narrate the story of a failing relationship, acted out by two marionettes, courtesy of the Nashville Puppet Theater.

Speace recorded How To Sleep In A Stormy Boat in Nashville with producer Neilson Hubbard. The album’s 11 songs reflects themes of lost love throughout, with Speace drawing inspiration from the classic works of William Shakespeare. In addition to Fullbright, special guests include singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier and cellist Ben Sollee. 

Amy landed in New York City after college to pursue a life in theater. She studied acting at The National Shakespeare Conservatory, toured the US with the National Shakespeare Company, started her own theater company to direct and produce the plays she had written, and in the midst of her early 20’s, picked up a pawn shop guitar, wrote her first songs, and found herself with steady gigs at such storied venues as The Bitter End and The Living Room.

2012–2013 has been a groundbreaking period for John Fullbright, and the Grammy nomination for his latest CD From The Ground Up was just one of many highlights.  He is a young man who finds love, beauty and pain in the here and now, and skepticism and disdain for those who would take advantage of the dreams of those hoping for a better world. That he can articulate his worldview with an almost otherworldly precocity makes his debut studio album worthy of attention. From the fertile ground of Woody Guthrie’s Oklahoma, another songwriting legend may be blooming.

 

Comment by wiffledust on June 29, 2013 at 7:14pm

are you all going to woodyfest? i know our margaret kraft is going!

Comment by Rick Reiley on May 19, 2013 at 5:04pm

I'd be honored! Thanks. John!

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