Series # 19

Spring-Summer-2006)

Saturday, May 2O

Kris Delmhorst / Shannon McNally Band

www.krisdelmhorst.com
www.shannonmcnally.com

"A favorite of folk fans in the Boston area, Kris Delmhorst has been making bids for a broader audience through a progression of genre-bending records with unlikely musical partners; drummer Billy Conway (Morphine) among them. Though her breathy, brooding vocals can sometimes seem a bit mannered, most of the musical settings reinforce the power of her elemental imagery.  While the bulk of her material evokes the turbulance of relationship, the conviction that Delmhorst brings to her music suggests that it would take an awfully strong wind to blow her away."  Don McLeese

"Shannon McNally has the voice: bruised, smokey and ornery, right at home where country and soul meet.  She has the melodies and the timing to stretch a phrase and let it snap right back where a word will cut deepest.  On her second album, Geronimo (Back Porch), Ms. McNally also has superb roots-rock production from Charlie Sexton, the Texas guitarist and longtime sideman for Bob Dylan, that can be rollicking or resonant.  Her lyrics sometimes lose focus, but when she homes in on a pithy chorus "I never learned nothing but the hard way/ 'Cause at the time it felt so good" - she's irresistible."  Jon Pareles, The New York Times

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Saturday, June 1O

At the nexus of bluegrass, country and pop, this charming Australian trio immediately wins over the most diverse audiences in concert. Not for nothing did Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson choose The Greencards to open their summer tours...

“Caroline Herring sings folk songs with a country edge, or maybe it’s the other way around. Either way, this gifted songwriter knows her way around a tune. Her slightly honeyed twang, lilting and lovely, shapes the Southern slices of life that make up many of her story-songs.”
--Joe Helm, The Washington Post

Saturday, July 8

Richmond Fontaine
Hamell On Trial
www.richmondfontaine.com
www.hamellontrial.com

Richmond Fontaine is a super cool rock group from Portland, OR. They've just
released a much-heralded new record, The Fitzgerald, but their live shows
are legendary. " Evocative and mesmerizing."--No Depression

The best review of Hamell on Trial was in the Austin Chronicle a couple of
years ago: " Our singer songwriter can beat up your singer-songwriter." He's
a one men punk band.

Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez
Michael McDermott
www.trainwreckrecords.com 
www.michael-mcdermott.com

Old pro songwriter Chip Taylor heard sweet young thang Carrie Rodriguez playing her violin as he walked down the street in Austin during South By South West. He asked her to play with him, convinced her to sing and they've been setting stages on fire all over the country ever since.

"Michael McDermott is a powerful folk-rock singer with a developed melodic facility and lots of stage charisma."
--The New York Times

Saturday, September 9

Teddy Thompson Band + Etienne de Rocher
www.teddythompson.com

Teddy Thompson has performed at Sing Like Hell twice. Now he returns with
his band to celebrate the success of his second, excellent CD “Separate
Ways.” "A big, chunky jewel brilliantly evoking the wave of exhilaration,
fear and confusion that accompanies the first supersonic rush of fame,
leaving nothing but a big, empty mess.
--Word

Etienne de Rocher’s got one of the sweetest voices around -- a high, clear-as-a-bell croon that glides easily through a song. Inspired by artists from all over the map, Etienne crafts songs that rustle with bittersweet echoes of the past without becoming pastiches. "What’s most appealing is the
sense of wonder that fills his songs, as if he can’t believe how pretty a melody can be.”
–– Sylvia Chan, San Francisco Bay Guardian

April 22, 2006
Sonya Kitchell Band
Cynical Girls with Marti Jones & Amy Rigby
www.sonyakitchell.com
www.amyrigby.co

Sonya Kitchell Band
Sonya Kitchell has a voice. “Warm, honey-textured tones arching smoothly through shifting layers of emotion,” said the LA Times.She writes her own material, “most of it polished, all of it idiosyncraticand hard to classify,” said the Boston Globe. She’s a svelte blond beauty
who’s been performing with Madeleine Peyroux and other noted blues and jazz headliners since she was 12. Now she’s all grown up and ready to take the pop music world by storm...at age 16.

Cynical Girls with Marti Jones & Amy Rigby
Cynical Girls is a female high-fidelity pop-music coffee klatch. Known for their affectionately ironic takes on real life and love, united by musical zest, art-school pasts and daily domestic struggles, acclaimed singer/songwriters Marti Jones and Amy Rigby swap songs, relationship advice and rock’n’roll war stories.

May 12
**** ADDED SHOW ****

Richard Thompson
RICHARD THOMPSON - 1OOO YEARS OF POPULAR MUSIC!
at the Lobero  $25.OO for subscribers $4O regular advance

Richard Thompson brings his unusual and innovative interpretation of the entire history of music to the Lobero for one night ONLY!!

Richard Thompson web site