Category Archives: Americana
Scott H. Biram Fall Dates
From the Sleaze-Meister himself:
So I just got back from Davenport, IA playing at the River Roots Live Festival with The Black Crowes, The Gourds, Alejandro Escovedo, and 12 other acts on Saturday. We had alot of fun out there!
Keep your TVs tuned to NBC on November 2nd for “My Name is Earl”.
SHB original song “Blood, Sweat and Murder” will be used on the show.
Some other good news is that I’ll be playing with Clutch, and The Sword
in Sayreville, New Jersey at Starland Ballroom on Dec. 29th!!
Clutch and I have been trying to make something happen for over a year now.
They want to tour with me, but our schedules keep clashing. IT WILL HAPPEN EVENTUALLY!!
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For now you can see us together on Dec. 29th in Sayreville, New Jersey!
Don’t forget about SHB and Nashville Pussy on October 24th either!
I’ll also be playing, both the Bloodshot Showcase, and The Billions Showcase at CMJ Music Fest in NYC this November. We are building an entire East Coast November tour around this so check the schedule below, and check www.scottbiram.com for updates on the tour schedule. Also, The Shack Shakers and I are working on a New Year’s Eve Show in Chicago, but this is not yet confirmed.
I’ll keep you posted and hopefully we can all spend NYE together.
Once again, I have to thank everybody for all the support on the new record.
The tours have been great and my songs have been getting alot of play on both satellite and traditional radio.
Thanks so much!!
Okay here are the latest dates. Remember that we are always adding to them.
Please check out www.scottbiram.com for updates.
Fri 9/29/06
Austin, TX
Jovita’s
Sat 10/14/06
Manor, TX
The Oaks (festival with several bands…call for show time)
Fri 10/20/06
Denton, TX
Dan’s Silverleaf
Sat 10/21/06
Pflugerville, TX
Hanover’s Draught Haus (festival with several bands…call for show time)
Tue 10/24/06
Austin, TX
Emo’s
(With Nashville Pussy, and Priestess)
THE FOLLOWING TOUR WILL BE ADDED TO SOON…
I WILL SEND OUT ANOTHER SCHEDULE BEFORE I LEAVE
Tue 10/31/06 (HALLOWEEN SHOW)
Johnson City, TN
Cahootenanny’s
Wed 11/1/06
Roanoke, VA
Martin’s Downtown Bar & Grill
Fri 11/3/06
New York, NY
Rebel
(CMJ Festival Billions Showcase)
Sat 11/4/06
Union Pool
Brooklyn NY
(CMJ Festival Bloodshot Showcase)
Sun 11/5/06
Providence, RI
Jake’s Bar and Grille
Mon 11/6/06
Asbury Park, NJ
Asbury Lanes
Thu 11/9/06
Pittsburgh, PA
Smiling Moose Bar
Sat 12/2/06
Lafayette, LA
Blue Moon Saloon
Fri 12/29/06
Sayreville, NJ
Starland Ballroom
(With Clutch and The Sword)
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Nels Andrews – The Living Room – 10/30
Albuquerque carpenter turned musician Nels Andrews will be bringing his smooth-roots sounds to The Living Room in New York City on 10/30.Â
MySpace Showcase Tuesday – (2 fer)
I’m in such a great mood from my Nashville trip I decided to give you, loyal reader, two for the money on this MySpace Showcase Tuesday.
The first band is the Lonesome Spurs. I liked these folks the first time I heard their song come streaming from their page and like ‘em even more after making their acquaintance in Nashville and seeing them live. Lynda Kay & Danny B. Harvey make music as though it were a spawn from Patsy Cline and Merle Travis, but kidnapped from the crib and raised up in a West Texas trailer park by Wanda Jackson. Sold hillbilly sound and snappy dressers to boot!
The second band is a new one for me. Backyard Tire Fire has a smooth groove as if Leon Russell fronted Uncle Tupelo. The twang is there fused with funk and the harmonious folk of C.S.N.Y.
Both are killer. Check ‘em out!
AMA Conference – Tuesday, 19th
After arriving in Nashville on Tuesday I was dismayed to discover there were no more rental cars to be had on site without a prior reservation. Three years in New York City has skewed my expectations on public transportation and led to my piss poor planning and not booking a car earlier.
Mt Uncle Tony Lane picked me up on this beautiful, sunny Tennessee day in his big, black Tacoma truck. Agter a detour to his home, my Uncle, who is a local songwriter (Trace Adkins, George Strait, to name couple) and I headed over to the 3rd & Lindsley Bar & Grill to get a beer and wait for some old friends of his from high-school to fly in from Dallas on their personal plane to eat some BBQ. We caught a show by a friend of Tony’s and had some good old Shiner (Not available in New York, though Lone Star is. Go figure.)
The BBQ place was closed on Tuesdays so we headed up a street a way and ate at a great hole-in-the-wall Tex-Mex joint advertising the “Best Margaritas†(they weren’t.) The food was greasy good, they had a killer Mexican shrimp cocktail and the good old boys reminisced about late nights in Dallas bars.
Later that night I was lucky enough to attend a guitar pull at the legendary Bluebird Café. Besides my Uncle Tony there was Victoria Banks (“Saints and Angelsâ€), Dave Turnbull (“If Something Should Happen”) and Dallas Davidson (“Honkytonk Badonkadonk.”)
The Bluebird is a very ordinary place in a strip mall a little out of town. It looks like the type of place your Grandparents might take you for breakfast when you visit (assuming Grandma’s not up for cooking.) The Bluebird and the crowd that comes to hear the performers are all about the music. Theirs is absolutely NO TALKING during the songs. No “blah blah blah†as some poor girl or guy with a guitar tries to pour their heart out as a crowd of drunken idiots use them as background music. This was a music lover’s Xanadu.
After that, how could it possibly get batter? How about a round of beer and tequila at the Corner Bar with the Bluebird performers and Gary Hannon, a South African and great guy that penned the #1 Joe Nichols hit “Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off.â€
Yeah, I know that the Americana community at large has a certain disdain for pop-country, but the songwriters that work for the machine are as authentic and passionate about their craft as any folkster.
The night was young (1 am), but I needed my sleep for the conference.
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Johnny Cash’s San Quentin Reissued, Expanded
A nice announcement on Pitchfork – Columbia/Legacy will reissue Johnny Cash’s first chart-topping album– the live Johnny Cash at San Quentin– on November 14 as a three-disc (two CDs and one DVD) set, along with plenty of previously unreleased extras.
The 2000 remastered version of the 1969 LP expanded the original’s tracklist from 10 to 18 tracks, but this release will transcend both by including 13 previously unreleased performances from Cash and his entire ensemble, which included his wife June Carter Cash, the Carter Family, Carl Perkins, and the Statler Brothers.
Click on the above link for track lists.
Nashville Bound
So as I said a while back I’m going to be heading to Nashville to spend some quality time with my Uncle Tony Lane, (here comes the bragging) a singer/songwriter on Music Row that has written songs for Lee Ann Womack and George Strait among others, and his wonderful family and to attend the Americana Music Conference. This is going to be a great week.
I’ve never been to Nashville and am looking forward to visiting legendary joints like the Ryman Auditorium (home of the original Grand ‘Ol Opry) The Bluebird Café (where legends come to try out their tunes) and, of course, the Country Music Hall of Fame. And I can’t wait to get to see so many great performances (Rosanne Cash. Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint, Alejandro Escovedo, Jon Langford, Tres Chicas and Ray Wylie Hubbard just to name a few.)
If you’re going to the conference and would like to meet for a drink drop me a line. I’ll be checking email on and off and will try and post from the road, but you know how these things go. If I can’t post from there I’ll wrap up when I get back to New York.
King of the Road – Roger Miller, Merle Haggard, Dwight Yoakam, Marty Stuart, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton
Hem – Red Wing
Hem – Funnel Cloud (Nettwerk Records)
They sound like they should be making their brand of dreamy folk music over the smoldering embers of an Appalachian campfire instead of on the stop of a brownstone in their residential Brooklyn, but Hem’s music blurs place as well as time.
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Much of Hem’s muscle comes as much from the sweet crystal clear vocals of Sally Ellyson as it does from the potently restrained songs of Dan Messe. During the recording of Funnel Cloud, Messe’s home was flooded during the recording sessions by hurricane Ivan and his father died a week later, the themes of tragedy, hope and acceptance run throughout the lyrics and the feel of the songs. Assisted by a 21-piece orchestra, Ollabelle singer Amy Helm and Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha, the music fills in the spaces between the silences at just the right time for emotional impact. Funnel Cloud is a glisteningly sparse and melancholy work that show Hem continues to deliver. Â