Misisipi Mike Music and Gig Posters

Hey y’all
I’m playing tonight at Don Quixote’s California Music Hall in Felton (near Santa Cruz tonight). It’s gonna be a Mission Three gig. I guess I was booked a while ago and didn’t know it. Kind of a confusing story, but it’s all sunshine and red roses now!

Tell your friends who live in Santa Cruz to come out and show some love for a San Francisco band. It will surely help all of us to get gigs down there. Also playing will be Pete Devine’s Jug Band.

Show is starts at six, we go on around seven.

Hope you had a swell fourth!

Mike

P.S. KATY, CREE, GAYLE LYNN, DOUG, TOM DROHAN and me are going to St Louis, Louisville, South Eastern MO, and Lexington from July 29 to Aug. 4. Tell your friends!!

Friends
okay, no free beans, that was just the hook to get you here. But FREE MUSIC that is good for your heart, we got that, fer sher.

Gayle Lynn, Tom Drohan, Maurice Tani and Mike and Cree (North Beach Fest Satellite Gig)
Saturday 6/13 4-7 PM
Giordano Bros (North Beach, Columbus near Broaday)
EARLY GIG, grab a beer, a sandwich, a coke, hell, just come loiter, but come down for some good music and happiness, and it is FREE

MISISIPI RIDER at the Free Folk Fest
Sunday 6/14 2:30 PM (Faith Petric Stage)
Presidio Middle School (30th at Geary)
Please come down and show these Folk Fest folks that you love Free Folk (and bluegrass and other stuff) Music, especially MISISIPI RIDER music

Thank you for your time. Now let FREEDOM RING!

Hey y’all
I’m playing another short solo set tomorrow (Thursday) at the Ballyhood Bar and Cafe at 19th just east of Mission St. Cree and GIlly, my two loyal fans, are both out of town, so I’ll have no one to sing the fun backup parts with me. Might you come and take their place? It’s free, it’s at 8 PM, and it’ll only take half an hour of your time! And it will bring many more hours of happiness. At least it will for me…..

I will play the following tunes I hardly ever play
Just a Patch of Rain
Lonely Ol House on Memory Lane
Fly Low Little Bluebird
Louisiana Living and I’m Getting Fat
A Toast To Absent Friends
Me and Cree
Leave Me to my Dreams (ok, that one isn’t that rare)

If you come and help me sing, I will also do “Born Again”

thanks
Mike

Misisipi Rider is gonna be a playin’ at the Hotel Utah on Tuesday May 26. We storm the stage with a passion filled vengeance around 9:30 pm. Won’t you say yay and join us for our last official SF show till, like, August?

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

Hey all,

I’ll be live on KPIG at 1:45 tomorrow (Saturday) with Gayle Lynn to promote our show at the Starry Plough later in the night. Please tune in on the radio or on the web to the HAM JAM. Gayle will do three or four songs and I’ll play a special, long distance dedication of “These Bars” in memory of my passed away parakeet Mr. Tweetfeather.

-Mike

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

Hey y’all
Something silly but neat happened to me yesterday. A bunch of months ago my friend Peter filmed me singing the song “Strangers” by the Kinks, which we posted on Youtube. A little whiie later I got an email from someone asking if I would let them use the recording for a student film. I said sure, but never heard anything more from them.

Last night, while I was feeling particularly loserish about being a musician I got an email with just this link, nothing else.

This song is me and Gilly’s little theme song, the one that ran through my head as I went through that whole mess a couple of years ago. Who could of guessed this kind of thing would come from that. I know it is just a silly lttle student film, but it means the world to this loser!

Mike

I will be performing a half hour solo set tonight at the Bollyhood (19th near Mission) at 8:00 PM. New Maps of the West and a couple of other bands that I don’t know follow.

My set will be the following:
Oh Sweet Suzanne
Me And Cree
A Toast to Absent Friends
Leave me to my Dreams
Whiskey Warm and Mellow
The Price I Must Pay

Come round if you are in the hood. I will go on as close to eight as the angels allow
-Mike

Two neato shows this week, please come down for one if you can.

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