I think we got a beauty for you on Saturday…
Friends, neighbors, and the like…. When we’re lucky enough to have beauty in our lives we need to celebrate it.
77 el Deora/Misisipi Rider(cd release)/Gayle Lynn
Saturday May 16 9:00 PM sharp!
Starry Plough, Berkeley
cheap admission
Misisipi Rider is debuting our new cd for the east side on Saturday and I really, really hope you can make an appearance! The short version is we got two of the best bands (77 el Deora, Gayle Lynn who both played Slims in Jan.) on the West Coast to entice you out to our party. It’s at the Starry Plough, it is cheap, there is good food, and Misisipi Rider just got back from a short tour and are tighter then Lindsey Lohan’s skinny jeans.
now the long version…..
We are honored to have had this show organized by the headliner (and producer of my shiny solo cd “Cold Hard Facts”) Maurice Tani. Many people share my opinion that his group, 77 el Deora, is THE BEST BAND in the Bay Area. Not “best band following the current fads or wearing the silliest costumes or doing the most cloying schtick” – no, 77 el Deora is a timeless band that writes and performs an original and very catchy mix of noir rock, pop and (that dirty word) country music. If Fleetwood Mac and Leonard Cohen got together with Waylon Jennings and Jeff Beck, well that would be a great show and it would be a lot like the show you will get on Saturday.
The opener is Gayle Lynn and the Hired Hands, who will be the best band in the Bay Area when 77 el Deora finally gets signed to CURB Records. Gayle writes both stunningly personal songs and fun party songs, and sometimes puts both together that make you shed tears in your tequila, hug total strangers, and buy the bar a round. Gayle and her band will be LIVE ON THE RADIO Saturday afternoon to promote the show (with your truly as a special guest) on the HAM JAM on KPIG (also on the HAM JAM will be Gurf Morlix of Lucinda Wiliams, Dwight Yoakum and Warren Zevon). They are worth the price of admission alone, but y’all probably already know that too…..
Anyway, we go on in the middle, and we are gonna rock your socks off. We played and played and played in Portland, and wowwed them everywhere we went. We are real happy with the cd, it is getting great reviews and selling well. Please come out and help us keep local music accessible for all good people.
Mike
