David Lindley, The Elders, The Chapmans, The Nace Brothers, Samantha Fish & Aaron Burton, and MORE @ Knuckleheads 7/27 - 8/2/2009

Wednesday 7/29
Samantha Fish & Aaron Burton (Blues)
8pm $7 Cover

Thursday 7/30
The Elders ( Arse Kickin Celtic Music From the Heartland)
a Fundraiser for KKFI 90.1 FM Community Radio
"Named the Elders for good reason. Decades of combined experience have taught the band smart stagecraft, superb showmanship and taut professionalism. Many superstar acts would envy the level of audience participation the Elders achieve." Tim Finn, Kansas City Star "The Elders possess a wondrous and authentic Irish sound."
DISCOVERIES/ Krause Publication The Elders music is far from common. the lyrical and musical excellence of their songs will stick in your mind long after the final track has played." GOLDMINE Magazine
www.eldersmusic.com
8pm $20 adv donation

Friday 7/31
The Nace Brothers (Rock/Roots/Blues)
9pm $8 adv

Saturday 8/1
The Chapmans (Bluegrass)
and Billy Spears & the Beer Bellies
roots, hippie country, rock, western swing and bluegrass
8:30 pm $8 adv

Sunday 8/2
David Lindley (Strings Master)
Multi-instrumentalist David Lindley performs music that redefines the word "eclectic." Lindley, well known for his many years as the featured accompanist with Jackson Browne, and leader of his own band El Rayo-X, has long championed the concept of world music. The David Lindley electro-acoustic performance effortlessly combines American folk, blues, and bluegrass traditions with elements from African,
Arabic, Asian, Celtic, Malagasy, and Turkish musical sources. Lindley incorporates an incredible array of stringed instruments including but not limited to Kona and Weissenborn Hawaiian lap steel guitar, Turkish saz and chumbus, Middle Eastern oud,
and Irish bouzouki. The eye-poppingly clad "Mr. Dave's" uncanny vocal mimicry and demented sense of humor make his onstage banter a highlight of the show.

David Lindley grew up in southern California, first taking up the banjo as a teenager, and subsequently winning the annual Topanga canyon banjo and fiddle contest five times as he explored the American folk music tradition. between 1967 and 1971 Lindley founded and lead what must now be seen as the first world music rock band, the Kaleidoscope. In 1971, Mr. Dave joined forces with Jackson Browne, serving as Jackson's most significant musical co-conspirator until 1981. In 1979, Lindley had begun working with old friend Ry Cooder on 'Bop Till you Drop' and 'The Long Riders' sound track, a musical collaboration that lasts to this day, and has spawned many recording projects and several world tours as an acoustic duo.

In 1981, Lindley created his own remarkable Band El Rayo-X, which integrated American roots music and world beat with a heavy reggae influence. 'El Rayo-X', 'Win This Record' and 'Very Greasy', as well as a live e.p. during this period he also came forth with a solo album, 'Mr. Dave'. Lindley and guitarist Henry Kaiser went to Madagascar for two weeks in 1991 and recorded six albums of indigenous Malagasy music (including two collaborative cd's, 'A World Out of Time' volumes one and two on Shanachie) which proved to have a major impact on the world music scene, both for the quality of the Grammy nominated music recorded, and the fair and ethical way the Malagasy musicians were dealt with.
9pm $18 adv

Paul Thorn, Chubby Carrier, Jesse Dayton, The Sapsuckers, and MORE @ Knuckleheads 7/20 - 7/26/2009

Thursday 7/23
Paul Thorn
with special guest The Terry Quitte Band
The first thing you notice is The Voice, unique and distinctive, the voice of a man who has walked a long, hot span over dusty Mississippi country roads. At turns soulful, raw, melancholy, brazen, funky, circumspect, serene, brooding, and mutinous, the voice expresses the range of human emotions, from forlorn grimness to incandescent optimism. And after repeated listens, you realize that his is not erely the voice of a poet but also of a merciful prophet, a summation not unjustified. Those who follow the career of Paul Thorn believe he is both. His newest CD is A Long Way From Tupelo, a collection of songs which once again illustrates Thorn�s versatility and authentic connection to the music of the Mississippi heartland: blues, country, gospel, rhythm and blues, and rock 'n' roll. Thorn excels as a musical storyteller. Maybe, given his background, he just can't help it. His songs are conduits for that gritty part of the South where beleaguered wisdom is as likely from the bottom of a bottle of Johnny Walker Red as it is from the pulpit of an old country church. And the latest Paul Thorn CD remains true to form.
8 pm $18 adv
www.paulthorn.com

Friday 7/24
Jesse "Banjo and Sullivan" Dayton
& Tater & the Gravy Train
9pm $7 cover

Saturday 7/25
Chubby Carrier ( Zydeco)
One word to describe the swampdelic sounds of Chubby Carrier and Bayou Swamp Band? Fun. Pure Louisiana zydeco fun with a hot sauce chaser. Anybody who has doubts about the accordion as an instrument will be swayed the right way with Carrier's passion and fire on the instrument.
There's traditional roots in Chubby's zydeco, but expands the sound for all ages. Live and in studio he's taken songs like B.B. King's "Rock Me Baby," Billy Preston's "Will It Go Round in Circles," The Who's "Squeeze Box", War's "Cisco Kid" and the Grateful Dead's "Fire On The Mountain" and dragged them through the swamp with beautiful results. It's adding Louisiana spice to popular tunes that help Carrier build the bridge between zydeco and the rest of the world.
9pm $15 adv $20 dos
www.chubbycarrier.com

Sunday 7/26
The Supersuckers
The Supersuckers are an American Rock band. They are the self-proclaimed "Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World." Following the relative success of their 1997 foray into Country music with the release of Must've been High , they have also been known to play country shows under various names, including, of course, The Supersuckers.
9pm $12 adv doors open at 8pm