Shannon Curfman, The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, Chris Duarte, Chris Knight, Four Fried Chickens and a Coke, and MORE @ Knuck's this week!
Shannon Curfman
with special guest Random Tuesday
After miraculously recovering from a near-terminal case of "Bruce", blues artist turned rock and roller, Shannon Curfman has finally released the follow-uprecord to her critically acclaimed debut album, "Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions". Originally signed to Arista Records at the age of 14, "Loud Guitars" rose to the number 3 spot on the Billboard Blues Chart. She has shared the stage with legends B.B. King, Buddy Guy John Mellencamp and Santana and has recorded with John Mayall, Billy Preston, Meshell N'degeocello and Keb' Mo. Her songs have appeared on the soundtracks of "Where the Heart Is" and "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants", as well as HBO's "The Sopranos", "G String Divas" and the WB's "Gilmore Girls". At 14, Shannon was praised for her blues-driven songwriting, gritty, soulful voice and her scorching guitar. Now 20, Shannon 's back on the road honing a new set of songs featured on her new release, "Take It Like A Man". With age and experience, the music has evolved and the genre has moved slightly away from funky-blues towards rock & roll.
Tuesday 9/12 7 pm tickets $10
The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash
with Randy Burk & the Prisoners and the Rumblejetts
For Mark Stuart and the Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, it’s been a long road....a twisting trail, a two-lane highway, a road full of ruts, and it all led to Texacali. Texacali is a mythical place maybe, but it’s real enough all the same. It’s a borderland, la frontera, somewhere right near where San Diego meets Juarez, where Ensenada and El Paso cross paths. And like all the rest of these tales, like every story that happens in life instead of on a page, sometimes you don’t notice the Mile Markers until you look up into the rear-view mirror.
A quick look in the rear view mirror: Mark Stuart formed the Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash on a whim, by accident, by chance. He’d been in a punk rock band but that was done, over, finished, and it had nearly finished him. He had a dream one night, and out of the dream came a band name: the Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash. The new name was a joke, sort of. And yet, soon enough, it wasn’t a joke anymore. Soon enough, it was a band, and soon enough, it was enough of a band that Johnny Cash himself gave them his personal seal of approval, and Johnny Cash’s own legitimate son helped produce their first album.
Wed 9/13 7pm tickets $10
Chris Duarte
In Chris Duarte’s musical view, the journey is as important as the destination, maybe even more so. Since emerging in the mid-1990s from Austin, Texas, a blues guitar hotbed, Duarte has forged new pathways for the blues and scouted numerous fresh trails for creative musical expression. Lauded for the exquisite artistry and vivid tonality of his six-string work, over the last decade Duarte has also proven his considerable mettle as a songwriter, singer and bandleader.
The sum total of his talents prompted Blues Access to extol him as a “genius,” but Duarte sees his work in a much more basic and fluid context. “I’m a musician who is still out there searching for better ways to get from point A to point B, and better my craft. I’m just not content staying in one place.”
Chris will have his 5 piece Japansee band, Bluestone, with him
Thurs 9/14 8 pm tickets $15 adv $20 dos
Chris Knight with special guests Pendergast
USA Today Review Posted On: Tuesday, Sep 5th, 2006
Country Weekly Posted On: Sunday, Sep 3rd, 2006
Pendergast is a bare bones rock band from Kansas City, Missouri. Their raw, ragged, roots pop preaches the gospel of rock and roll and the redemptive power of loud guitars, whisky, sex, and heartbreak.
Friday 9/15 8pm tickets $10 adv $12 dos
Four Fried Chickens and a Coke
Reviewer: Richard Amery Kenor Daily Miner and News
Sat 9/16 Open Jam 1pm till 8pm
Four Fried Chickens and a Coke
9PM tickets $8
with special guest Random Tuesday
After miraculously recovering from a near-terminal case of "Bruce", blues artist turned rock and roller, Shannon Curfman has finally released the follow-uprecord to her critically acclaimed debut album, "Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions". Originally signed to Arista Records at the age of 14, "Loud Guitars" rose to the number 3 spot on the Billboard Blues Chart. She has shared the stage with legends B.B. King, Buddy Guy John Mellencamp and Santana and has recorded with John Mayall, Billy Preston, Meshell N'degeocello and Keb' Mo. Her songs have appeared on the soundtracks of "Where the Heart Is" and "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants", as well as HBO's "The Sopranos", "G String Divas" and the WB's "Gilmore Girls". At 14, Shannon was praised for her blues-driven songwriting, gritty, soulful voice and her scorching guitar. Now 20, Shannon 's back on the road honing a new set of songs featured on her new release, "Take It Like A Man". With age and experience, the music has evolved and the genre has moved slightly away from funky-blues towards rock & roll.
Tuesday 9/12 7 pm tickets $10
The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash
with Randy Burk & the Prisoners and the Rumblejetts
For Mark Stuart and the Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, it’s been a long road....a twisting trail, a two-lane highway, a road full of ruts, and it all led to Texacali. Texacali is a mythical place maybe, but it’s real enough all the same. It’s a borderland, la frontera, somewhere right near where San Diego meets Juarez, where Ensenada and El Paso cross paths. And like all the rest of these tales, like every story that happens in life instead of on a page, sometimes you don’t notice the Mile Markers until you look up into the rear-view mirror.
A quick look in the rear view mirror: Mark Stuart formed the Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash on a whim, by accident, by chance. He’d been in a punk rock band but that was done, over, finished, and it had nearly finished him. He had a dream one night, and out of the dream came a band name: the Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash. The new name was a joke, sort of. And yet, soon enough, it wasn’t a joke anymore. Soon enough, it was a band, and soon enough, it was enough of a band that Johnny Cash himself gave them his personal seal of approval, and Johnny Cash’s own legitimate son helped produce their first album.
Wed 9/13 7pm tickets $10
Chris Duarte
In Chris Duarte’s musical view, the journey is as important as the destination, maybe even more so. Since emerging in the mid-1990s from Austin, Texas, a blues guitar hotbed, Duarte has forged new pathways for the blues and scouted numerous fresh trails for creative musical expression. Lauded for the exquisite artistry and vivid tonality of his six-string work, over the last decade Duarte has also proven his considerable mettle as a songwriter, singer and bandleader.
The sum total of his talents prompted Blues Access to extol him as a “genius,” but Duarte sees his work in a much more basic and fluid context. “I’m a musician who is still out there searching for better ways to get from point A to point B, and better my craft. I’m just not content staying in one place.”
Chris will have his 5 piece Japansee band, Bluestone, with him
Thurs 9/14 8 pm tickets $15 adv $20 dos
Chris Knight with special guests Pendergast
USA Today Review Posted On: Tuesday, Sep 5th, 2006
Chris Knight, Enough Rope (* * * 1/2) Chris Knight peoples Enough Rope with a small town’s worth of gritty characters trying to hang on to their love, their land and their pride.Village Voice Review by Robert Christgau Posted On: Monday, Sep 4th, 2006
“There ain’t much of nothing left of this place where I became myself,” he sings in Rural Route. That sense of displacement pervades the album, from an old man’s resignation that the land he’s worked for a lifetime will be sold after he dies to a young man’s balled-up frustration and helplessness as he watches earth-movers tear apart his grandfather’s riverside farm to build a factory. Working in the best storytelling traditions of John Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen, Knight sings of “dreams that will come true and some that won’t” — and not only the dreams, but also the life that comes in between them. --- Brian Mansfield
From the ex-hellion drinking ice tea in his yard to the city laborer who'd rather work his job than wear chains like his cousin Willie, this is where the Kentucky storyteller gets off the outlaw romanticism train, which turned into a Trailways bus years ago. "Old Man" deserves to be programmed back to back with John Prine, "Dirt" with Freedy Johnston. Still, put him head to head with those guys on the wrong Saturday night and he might still be inclined to kick both their asses.
Country Weekly Posted On: Sunday, Sep 3rd, 2006
Chris is a rough-hewn, detail-driven alt-country singer/songwriter—imagine a prepoliticized Steve Earle borrowing John Mellencamp’s larynx. The Slaughters, Ky., native’s songwriting is only getting more focused with time, as heard on this fine fourth effort. These carefully honed character sketches and surely paced narratives evoke real rural life more accurately and honestly than most anything you’ll hear on country radio—not just the glory and the romance of ordinary Southern existence, but the darkness and the disappointments. Chris Knight’s characters have dirt under their fingernails and life behind their eyes. ---
Pendergast is a bare bones rock band from Kansas City, Missouri. Their raw, ragged, roots pop preaches the gospel of rock and roll and the redemptive power of loud guitars, whisky, sex, and heartbreak.
Friday 9/15 8pm tickets $10 adv $12 dos
Four Fried Chickens and a Coke
Reviewer: Richard Amery Kenor Daily Miner and News
If you miss the Blues Brothers, Four Fried Chickens and Coke’s second CD is much welcomed. They’ve got the blues, they’ve got the horn section, they’ve got the soul and they bring out the funk, be it covering Chicago’s 25 or 6 or 4 or Shake a Tailfeather— my personal favourite track from the original Blues Brothers movie. They are all killer players who know how to set the groove and keep James Brown’s spirit alive. Most of these tracks are original which proves rhythm and blues will never die. And Howlin’ just puts the icing on the cake. Four Fried Chickens and a Coke may not be a healthy diet, but they sure taste good.
Sat 9/16 Open Jam 1pm till 8pm
Four Fried Chickens and a Coke
9PM tickets $8
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