Sat 1/2 Will Straughan at Straightaway Cafe

Saturday January 2nd

Will Straughan

at Straightaway Cafe

6pm

Will Straughan is a talented multi-instrumentalist and regionally popular sideman and session player. He's what is referred to as a "musicians musician", a player who makes everyone he plays with sound better.

While most folks know Will for his work with numerous other musicians, he is rapidly establishing himself as a talented singer, songwriter, and solo performer.

Along with Natalya Weinstein and John Cloyd Miller, Will performs regularly in the Americana band Red June, as well as with members of Jim and Jennie, the Pinetops, and the Greasy Beans in the band Garbage Bear.

In addition, he is currently touring and recording with regional favorites Eliza Lynn and Lance Mills. He has performed or collaborated with the Emma Gibbs Band, Lo-Fi Breakdown, Kellin Watson, and Aaron Price, among many others.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=info&id=1437923109
www.myspace.com/willstraughan
http://www.straightawaycafe.com/

Sat 1/2 Taylor Martin Band at Town Pump Tavern

Saturday January 2nd
Taylor Martin Band
at Town Pump Tavern
8:30 pm

If you've listened to WNCW, you've probably heard Taylor Martin....and you've probably said...wow...great songs, great band. I'd sure like to hear that guy live sometime.

Taylor is quickly developing a following based on the airplay of his new CD, ENGINE. He'll play playing songs from Engine as well as some newer material at the Town Pump. Performing with Taylor will be many of Asheville favorite musicians (who also happen to be big fans of Taylor Martin): Woody Wood, Ty Gilpin, Shane Conerty, Brian Jones, Ricky Cooper, and Lyndsay Pruett.

Taylor Martin was born September 2, 1980. Raised near Richmond, Virginia, he fell in love with music at a young age. His first professional performances came at age 17 when he would attend hootenannies (folksinger-get-togethers). It was through these experiences that Taylor began to hone his musical identity.

He moved to northern Utah where he began to fuse personal experience with the craft of professional songwriting. "The spirit of the West spoke to me and in that I began to dream.
Taylor recalls. "The combination of fact and fiction, dark and light, knowingness and fear all became very real to me." Songwriting became a near obsession for him, and at age 24 he recorded his first album at Avon Sound Recording in Paradise, Utah.

After a brief tour of the West, he decided to move back to the South where he felt he could better explore his own "roots" music.

It’s the overlapping of the western spirit with his southern heritage that has giving birth to the songwriting on his new album, Engine. His songs are described as cryptic yet genuine, uplifting at times, heartbreaking at others. It doesn’t take much of a listen before you realize that this music is drenched with passion and heartache. These are human emotions in a genuine musical form.

http://www.myspace.com/taylormartinsmusic
http://www.myspace.com/townpumptavernllc

Sat 1/2 Bob Margolin at White Horse Black Mountain

Saturday Jan 2nd

Bob Margolin

at White Horse Black Mountain

8pm

Bob Margolin is a Blues guitar player and vocalist, a recording artist who tours worldwide both leading his own band and The Bob Margolin All-Star Blues Jam. He won a Blues Music Award for Guitar in 2008, known as the W.C. Handy Award in 2005 when he won that year, and played guitar in Muddy Waters’ Band from 1973-’80.

His most recent album is The Bob Margolin All-Star Blues Jam for Telarc Records, which features many of today’s surviving Chicago Blues legends. Since the ‘90s, he has also recorded albums for the Powerhouse, Alligator, and Blind Pig labels. He writes a regular column for Blues Revue magazine and contributes to BluesWax.com online magazine.

Bob also has played on, produced or consulted on, and written liner notes for four reissues of Muddy Waters’ albums on the Sony/Legacy label. He appears on the Muddy Waters Classic Concerts DVD, playing in 1977 with Muddy and writing liner notes for the DVD.

In today’s Blues music scene, Bob Margolin is carrying on the tradition with a full schedule of festivals, concerts, and club appearances.

www.bobmargolin.com/
www.whitehorseblackmountain.com/

Fri 1/1 The Good Old Boyz at The Town Pump

FRIDAY JANUARY 1st

Start the New Year off right with

The Good Old Boyz

at The Town Pump

9pm

Outlaw country done right ... right here in the land of the sky ...

The Good Old Boyz are in da hood at the Town Pump on Sat Oct 3rd brining old school outlaw country and honky-tonk favorites. Fans of Waylon, Willie, Hank, Merle, Lefty, Cash, Gram, Townes, George Jones, and the like will be pleased to know that the music lives on in Asheville in the form of The Goold Old Boyz.

The band features

Woody Wood, guitar
Scott Sharpe, pedal steel
David Connor Jones, bass
and
Richard Foulk, drums

http://www.myspace.com/goodoldboyz

www.myspace.com/townpumptavernllc