Home » Events » Crying Time and Howell Devine – Ivy Room and Fireside Lounge presents Tiny Towns Outdoor Concert Series

Tiny Towns Outdoor Concert Series (Public Domain)
MUSIC: Ivy Room and Fireside Lounge Presents: Tiny Towns Outdoor Concert Series featuring live music and more!

Crying Time and Howell Devine – Ivy Room and Fireside Lounge presents Tiny Towns Outdoor Concert Series

Loading Map....

Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/29/2021
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Location
The Fireside Lounge

Category(ies)

Add This Event to Your Calendar


BUY TICKETS – Doors open at 1 PM, Show at 2 PM… *We will be maintaining social distancing practices and following all health precautions and guidelines. (Children 3 and under are free but must sit on a lap of an adult)

Crying Time

Country singing from Oakland standouts. Real musicians, not just stompers. Jill Rogers is an amazing singer. Just plain beautiful.
– KALX Radio

Honkytonk revisionists out of Oakland, Crying Time plays straight-up country and western music, from Bob Wills to Glen Campbell with whistle stops in between. Their original songs sit pretty in the mix – you’ll think you heard these tunes on your daddy’s stereo when you were little. Jill Rogers is a singer’s singer with a 1974 voice and a story to tell, and Myles Boisen is a hero of juke joint licks on the six string and lap steel guitar. Bay Area music scene veteran Tony Marcus’s fiddle weaves through the songs while Tim Rowe on drums and Smilin’ Pete Garellick on bass hold down the rhythm with grace, style, and swing. Steel guitar legend Bobby Black frequently sits in with the band, too.

Howell Devine – Shack-Shaking Music

There is no blues band performing today as different as HowellDevine—nor as delightful.
– Lee Hildebrand, Living Blues Magazine/SF Chronicle

Triple threat talent, Joshua Howell (guitar, harmonica, vocals) and percussion savant, Pete Devine (drums, washboard), plus veteran upright bassist, Joe Kyle Jr. deftly mix Delta/Country Blues with wildly syncopated rhythms to create a rollicking present-day sound rooted in early blues. HowellDevine breaks from the norm, providing rich and complex textures integral to the music rather than simple backing for a soloist. The result is a sound which stands in stark contrast to the typical blues heard in bars these days and would more likely be shaking the floors of a Southern juke joint some 70 years ago.

IMAGE courtesy of Fireside Lounge (Public Domain)

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.