New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) Hill Country Live, DC's go-to destination for Americana, alt-country, and roots music, brings 21st century blues phenom
Cassie Taylor, finger-picking Taj Mahal devotee
David Jacobs-Strain,
Dr. John collaborator Shannon McNally, "USA Today's Top Band to Watch in 2013" Toy Soldiers, and many more and more to their Capital Hill roadhouse this May.
May 2 -
Cassie Taylor - Already a ten-year veteran of the road at 26,
Cassie Taylor, the daughter of venerated bluesman Otis Taylor, draws on a wide swath of influences—from the Delta blues she grew up on to electronica, New Orleans second line, and West African psychedelic rock—to create her own indelible and utterly modern sound on 'Out Of My Mind,' out May 7 on Yellow Dog Records. No Depression calls the album "sultry, sexy and soulful," adding that she "soars like Phoebe Snow" and "brings the sass of Shemekia Copeland."
https://music.hillcountrywdc.com/event/244369-cassie-taylor-washington/
May 4 - Toy Soldiers - USA Today called this quintet the "Top Band to Watch in 2013." Playing 120+ shows a year, they've toured with Dr. Dog, The Felice Brothers, The Walkmen, and Fitz and the Tantrums, raising the roof and burning the barn wherever they go. WXPN called their debut album "a gritty, dirty collection of liquor-fueled Americana music."
https://music.hillcountrywdc.com/event/224149-toy-soldiers-washington/
May 7 -
David Jacobs-Strain - Consummate finger-style and slide guitarist, plays in the blues tradition but isn't from it. You can imagine him inviting his touchstone, American bluesman Taj Mahal, on a musical walkabout. You can imagine them conferring with Salif Keita, Afro-pop songster of Mali; and conversing with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Indian slide guitarist; and even conjuring the spirit of
John Lennon while tramping in the Siskiyou Mountains of Oregon.
https://music.hillcountrywdc.com/event/245857-david-jacobs-strain-washington/
May 9 - The Nadas - Folk-rock lifers the Nada have been Iowa fixtures almost as long as the
Lovejoy Building in downtown Des Moines. Its fitting that the former Mack Truck plant now graces the band's eighth album,
Lovejoy Revival, [just released last week], an album that's as grounded in the Nadas' heartland roots as anything they've put out before.https://music.hillcountrywdc.com/event/223211-nadas-washington/
May 13 - Shinyribs - Doug Sahm once told
Kevin "Shinyribs" Russell, "There are two kinds of people in
Texas - those that got West
Texas Dust, and those that got East
Texas Rust. You got both of 'em!" Most folks who follow such things consider Russell's outfit the Gourds one of the best live bands in the land, in large part because of Russell's brazen eccentricities and creative syntax. The most overlooked thing about Russell is that when he plays it straight - as he does for most of his latest Shinyribs record 'Well After Awhile' - the man can produce some of the funkiest and most beautiful roots music on the planet.
https://music.hillcountrywdc.com/event/252267-shinyribs-washington/
May 16 - Shannon McNally -
Dr. John helmed McNally's brand new album 'Small Town Talk' and recruited guys like Derek Trucks,
Vince Gill and Luther Dickinson to pay tribute to John's longtime songwriting partner
Bobby Charles.
Dr. John is only the latest of McNally's a-list admirers in a two-decades career that has seen her tour with John Mellencamp, Ryan Adams, Stevie Nicks, and many more.
https://music.hillcountrywdc.com/event/250743-shannon-mcnally-washington/
May 17 - Jess Klein - "Klein's confident vocals are what set her music apart from that of other folk singers," the Washington Post wrote last year. The Boston-Austin-New York transplant has performed on Good Morning
America and sold out theaters across the country. Now she has shed her girl-and-a-guitar image for a fuller sound and band on new album 'Behind the Veil.'
https://music.hillcountrywdc.com/event/254393-jess-klein-washington/
May 18 - Connor Christian & Southern Gothic - Equal parts modern troubadours, back road poets and outlaw rockers, Connor Christian & Southern Gothic create gritty, soulful songs of experience, with a dustbowl sensibility. The band was recently named an "Artist on the Verge" by Billboard.
https://music.hillcountrywdc.com/event/248459-connor-christian-southern-washington/
May 30 - Walt Wilkins and the Mystiqueros - After a thirty year career playing music, Wilkins calls his new outfit the Mystiqueros a "Texas Hill Country super-group." Onstage and in the studio, Wilkins is joined by Bill Small, Corby Schaub, Jimmy Davis and Ray Rodriguez. As No Depression put it, "There's country deep in Wilkins' soul, and deep soul in his country music."https://music.hillcountrywdc.com/event/255561-walt-wilkins-mystiqueros-washington/
Hill Country Live is located at 410 Seventh St, NW, Washington, DC 20004. Phone: 202-556-2050
About Hill Country Live:
Hill Country Live features the best of Americana, Alt-Country and
Roots music presented in state-of-the-art performance venues in New York City and Washington DC. Since 2007, Hill Country Barbecue Market has been NYC's premier destination for authentic
Texas barbecue and recently, with Hill Country Live, has established itself as NYC's home for Americana music, hosting performances by legends such as Billy Joe Shaver, Rosanne Cash, Norah Jones, Bob Schneider, Dale Watson, Asleep at the Wheel and Shooter Jennings and live music events in partnership with Nashville's Americana
Music Association and New Orleans' Export NOLA. A second location, in Washington, D.C.'s thriving Penn Quarter (410 Seventh Street, NW) opened in 2011 meeting with equal success and has presented shows by
Roger Creager, Band of Heathens, Carolyn Wonderland, Slaid Cleaves and The Holmes Bros. Part of Hill Country Live's core mission is to serve our local communities in Washington DC and New York, as well as to serve the communities of our familial and spiritual roots: Austin, the Hill Country, and the great state of Texas.
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