From: Frank Swart (funkwrench_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 2004-11-21 01:04:05
Can you forward to your list?November 19 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
"...infectious, old-school R&B and soul grooves spiced with hip-hop samples,
guitar, organ, a killer horn section and bitchin' backup singers"
WHO: The Ragman Son Revue and The Billy Nayer Show to perform two nights at
The Lizard
WHEN: Friday and Saturday December 10 and 11 Doors are at 7:00 for "Soul
Low" featuring Joey Pesce (ex- 'til tuesday) 12/10
Showtime: 9:30
WHERE: The Lizard Lounge
1667 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02138 617-547-1228
HOW: Tickets are $6 advance and $8 at the door available at
www.virtuous.com
21+ ONLY
WHY: IT WILL ROCK
Contact: RAGMAN C/O Billy Beard at wmbeard_at_comcast.net or call 617-283-1704
BILLY NAYER C/O Steve Martin Nasty Little Man steve_at_nastylittleman.com
www.nastylitteman.com
THE RAGMAN SON REVUE
Unlike many songwriters who have enjoyed success on Nashville's Music Row,
former Bostonian (Face to Face, The Immortals) Angelo Petraglia--better
known simply as Angelo--has managed to maintain credibility and respect from
the more heartfelt artists operating at the fringes of the country and rock
mainstreams. He has now branched out into producing killer rock records -
most notably the new Kings of Leon record (co - produced with Ethan Johns)
and has returned to the performing side of the equation with his band,
Ragman Son Revue. According to Angelo, despite having had his songs cut by
the likes of Trisha Yearwood, Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, and Martina
McBride, his own current project is "much less songwriter-y. It's sort of a
modern Mad Dogs and Englishmen meets Exile on Main Street...more of a groove
thing, with samples...and gang-bang choruses."Ragman Son Revue (both
Angelo's father and grandfather were ragmen) also features drummer Billy
Beard, bassist Frank Swart, horn masters Paul Ahlstrand, Dana Colley, and
Walter Platt, Lori Perkins on organ, Hillary Lindsey and Eulene Sherman on
vocals, and the newest member of Bob Dylan's band, Stuart Kimball on guitar.
It's sure to be a big beautiful mess. This is a can't-miss event at The
Lizard Lounge, and a rare opportunity to see Angelo perform his own
material.
Best New Band: Ragman Son Revue Songwriter Angelo Petraglia--known to most
Nashvillians simply as Angelo--has been a fount of material for country and
roots-rock artists looking for less typical, more soulful songs to play. He
recently returned to the performing side of the equation with his band,
Ragman Son Revue. He half-sings, half-speaks his songs in an assured but
unpretentious manner over infectious, old-school R&B and soul grooves spiced
with hip-hop samples, guitar, organ, a killer horn section and bitchin'
backup singers. But unlike a lot of the "modern rocker-meets-hip-hop
sampler" drivel that permeates the airwaves, Ragman Son Revue have a
sophistication, maturity and timeless quality that embodies Angelo's many
years toiling away in the music industry. There's no substitute for
experience.
--Jack Silverman
THE BILLY NAYER SHOW
Explaining The Billy Nayer Show is like the Supreme Court trying to define
pornography: You canıt describe it, but you know it when you see it. Their
specialty is a dark and sometimes cryptic sarcasm that encases a surprising
core belief in the power of love. BNS is a band infused by an entirely
unique, internal mythology outside and beyond any trends.
The San Francisco born, New York based Billy Nayer Show is
singer/songwriter/electric autoharpist Cory McAbee, drummer Bobby Lurie and
bassist Frank Swart.
The bandıs newest CD, Rabbit (2004), offers this question: Is this a story
about rabbits and bears or is this a story about saying your prayers? Of
course, this is not an album about rabbits; it is an album about sex. At
once slinky and angular, lush and bright, rough, raw and refined, Rabbit
sparkles with a glam rock aesthetic delivered with straightforward garage
attitude. Rabbit will appear as the most accessible of the groupıs work,
however, nothing is just what it seems in the world of BNS.