The Whiskey Richards
Misisipi Rider
The Bootcuts
Toshio Hirano

Café du Nord
2170 Market, SF, Calif

8PM, door open at 7PM
Advanced Tickets $10
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Door: $13

Sunday, April 25, 8:00 pm (doors open at 7:00 pm)

$14.50 advance / $15.50 at door
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Yard Sale is having their cd release Saturday at Cafe Royale at in the Tendernob, and Misisipi Rider is gonna be the opener! This time out it’ll just be me and Cree (and we have Jimmy Sweetwater sitting in to distract you from our Katy and Douglessness).

Yard Sale are the best best best. Jill, Mel, and Denise are stars in their own right but together they are the whole dang Milky Way. They write and sing the neato tunes your ear longs for, some will make you laugh, some will make you cry. I could go on and on about the famous people they remind me of, but that would be boring, and who needs famous people when we have top quality singing to us for free on a Saturday night?

Misisipi Rider/YARD SALE CD RELEASE!
Saturday July 11 8:30 sharp
800 Post at Leavenworth
admission is free for you!

Right on! I’ll see you there, you’ll see us there and all will be right for at least one more night.

Mike

ps. no poster for this one, so instead here’s some pictures of us in Potland

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

First, this Friday Cree, me and Jimmy Sweetwater debut our new group “The Mission Three” at the Red Devil lounge this Saturday, [Yes, Saturday] April 25. Jimmy adds some Levon Helms, I add some Dixieland, and Cree adds some blue eyed blues. We made an ep and it sounds real nice. We go on AT NINE PM SHARP, and we play one half hour exactly. Also playing (and, well, hell, this is the real meat of the whole deal) is 77 El Deora and Diego’s Umbrella. Now that is a show. Please come out for our world debut!

Sunday afternoon Misisipi Rider makes our debut at Thee Parkside Afternoon Roots Sundays. Just like the good ol’ Drifters days. We go on at 4:30 SHARP. They have to kick us out for a night show at seven, and there is another band, so we have to go on at 4:30. This show is FREE. The Country Squires/Starlene played it last Sunday, and the sound is really good in the place. Boom (the booker/sound guy) is really attentive, the bartender was real nice,  the patio was clean and peaceful and the food is good. They also have a Jim Beam/beer back special just for you! Please come see us, we are getting the songs down real nice! (I should mention that our friend Eric Reedy’s band the B Stars are playing later that night at Thee Parkside)

Mission Three (9 sharp)
w/ 77 el Deora and Diego’s Umbrella
Red Devil Lounge
Saturday [Yes, Saturday], April 25

Misisipi Rider (4:30 sharp)
Thee Parkside
Sunday, April 26
FREE

Upcoming Misisipi Rider Gigs

Apr 16 2009 8:00P 33 Revolutions El Cerrito, California
Apr 17 2009 8:00P Plough and Stars San Francisco, California
Apr 26 2009 4:00P Thee Parkside San Francisco, California
May 2 2009 1:00P Gayle and Tom’s Kentucky Derby Fete (Riptide) San Francisco, California
May 16 2009 8:00P Starry Plough East Bay cd Release San Francisco, California

More info and dates to be released REAL SOON-LIKE!