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Lauren Sheehan, Songster
 April, 2011
GRASSROOTS AMERICANA BLUES * BALLADS * COUNTRY * FOLK
Rose City Ramble - New CD and intimate concerts to celebrate
April 16 8 pm Artichoke Music (reservations suggested)
$15 door Backgate Stage, 3130 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 503.232.8845
- with Johnnie Ward, Greg Clarke, Betsy Branch, Elizabeth Nicholson, Bill Uhlig
April 17 7 30 pm O'Connar's (blues band night)
$5-15 sliding scale 7850 S.W. Capitol Hwy Portland OR 97219
503.244.1690
- with Terry Robb, Michael Ballash, Johnnie Ward, Bill Uhlig and Greg Clarke
April 23 7 pm Alberta St Pub (reservations suggested)
$15 door 1036 NE Alberta St Portland OR 97211 503.284.7665
- with Johnnie Ward, Dean Meuller, Greg Clarke, Betsy Branch, Elizabeth Nicholson.
This CD is a ramble, a fun excursion through different styles of American music with many of my favorite Portland musicians with whom I love to work. We recorded out at Big Red Stud
io, Corbett, OR, so you know it sounds great. One glance at the guest musicians suggests the stellar playing and singing that you'll hear on the project.
Most of the music is rooted in traditional styles, but has a modern treatment, even the original material. Imagine double banjos or mandolins with Greg Clarke, the beautiful slide and sting of Terry Robb's guitar work, the gorgeous plaintive harmonica by Johnnie Ward along with his lighthearted horn playing. There is bowed and plucked bass by Laura Quigley who also adds some harmony singing. The lovely Strawberry Rune ladies, Betsy Branch and Elizabeth Nicholson, add a serene shimmer with vocals, fiddle and harp, and blues players Dean Meuller and Michael Ballash add bass and drums to some fun upbeat dance pieces. My favorite 'color' though, is from my daughter, Zoe Carpenter whose voice creates a tight family harmony sound and feel that I just love.
I hope you can make it to one of the evenings shows with featured artists from the recording.
Thanks to Ed Carpenter, Sherrie Wolf and Norm Nicholson for photos, to Centrum and Neville Pierce for the live concert recording from Port Townsend, WA, to Billy, Alan and Jim for making this happen at Big Red Studio and beyond, to Joseph Chaijaroen at asmble for the graphic fun, and to all the musicians for all the great sounds and in and out of the studio.
Pick a Peck of Piedmont Pickers by Andy Cohen, Gareth Hedges, Mike Higgins, Russ Mello & Lauren Sheehan
http://www.wepecket.com/music.htm
PURCHASE at my shows OR
This new east coast blues CD is here. It's a fine collection of fingerpickin' east coast blues on Wepecket IslandRecords. If you like my melodic pickin' style, I think you'll like this CD. Available from me or at the Wepecket web site. Here's a description.
The American Eastern Piedmont – The Eastern slopes of the Appalachians, from Virginia to Alabama – were where "East Coast Blues" evolved in the early part of the 20th century.
While Delta Blues migrated north in the '30s and became the "Chicago Sound," Piedmont-style players either stayed home or found themselves in Harlem. The most renowned of the Harlem street-singers, and one of the early masters of Piedmont finger-picking was the Rev. Gary Davis. Arthur (Blind) Blake, Blind Willie McTell were among other early luminaries of the style, which borrowed from ragtime piano and so-called "Spanish-style" guitar playing. More recently, Etta Baker, Elizabeth Cotton, John Jackson and John Cephas kept the tradition alive into the '70s, '80s and '90s. With the deaths of Baker and Cephas in the last few years, the torch of this distinctly American music has been passed to another generation,
The men and women on this recording have all studied either at the feet of those earlier masters themselves, or with folks like Paul Geremia and Andy Cohen, who knew, befriended, and studied for years with the giants of the genre.
Chantoozy Floozy romp at Tony Starlights Supper Club
April 14 7:30 pm
Reservations: 503-517-8584
I will be joining Gretchen Rumbaugh as one of her ladies for a night of song, big voices and a good time.
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Hosted by Gretchen Rumbaugh
Now on Thursdays, Cabaret Chanteuse is an evening of vocal music hosted by the dynamic Gretchen Rumbaugh, and accompanied by the redoubtable Bo Ayars. We will showcase each month a different line-up of Portland's finest professional female singers performing in the great Cabaret tradition!
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Muddy Rudder Shows winding down
April 7, 28 - Gone in May - June 9
Bill Uhlig, one of my favorite bass players, will be joining me at the Rudder this week, (and for many of my releae concerts as well). We will be playing from my great American song basket, with plenty of hippie folk in the mix. Then, I'll be touring in May, home a bit in June.
Later in April I will have guest Jim Brauneis, harmonica Ace, down from Seattle area as my guest for a couple Portland shows, including the Rudder.
Atomic Cocktails - with Johnnie Ward May 3 8 pm
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 North Lombard Street Portland, OR 97217
It's a blast, Atomic cocktail night with the elder statesman of Portland blues and jive, Johnnie Ward with his Eagle Ridin' Papas jug band. Expect drink specials guaranteed to mushroom your mind, new tunes and hokum, as Mr. Chauncey blows the coolest jug west of the Mississippi. That's right folks, it's a modern jug band with a jug. Paul Bassett in washboard, Bill Uhlig on bass and I play mostly blues mandolin and some guitar.
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