Saturday, March 23, 2019

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House Concerts Unlimited is pleased to announce, 

Songwriters In The Round with Rod Picott, Brock Zeman, and Scott Aycock


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When:  Friday, April 12th
Where:  The Stone Church 4225 W. 5th St. Tulsa, 74127
Time:  Doors open 6:30pm and show starts 7pm.
Suggested Donation:  $18 at the door and DOS, $15 in advance through paypal.  Click button below to make donation through paypal.
RSVP required, as seating is limited.  Your paypal donation will serve as your RSVP.  If you plan to pay at the door, please RSVP to scottaypoet@gmail.com
Food:  We will provide some food and beverages for this event, but any food contribution from you would be much appreciated.    Also, feel free to BYOB.

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WHAT IS SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND?
For those that maybe haven't experienced a "Songwriters In The Round," it is three songwriters sitting in a row and taking turns sharing songs, and sometimes a story or an explanation of how a song came about.  It is very intimate and often gives a glimpse behind the curtain to the songwriting process, which is a mystery in many respects, even to the songwriter. 

"Elbow Grease" - Rod Picott

Seventeen years ago Rod Picott dropped his tool belt, picked up an acoustic guitar and released his first album Tiger Tom Dixon’s BluesThe acclaimed debut put a nail in the coffin of his construction career and ignited his second career as a singer-songwriter. With his new album, Out Past The Wires, that second career reveals itself in full flame.

The sprawling twenty-two song Out Past The Wires ranges from whispery ballads to guitar driven rockers and hits every musical spot between. Like much of Picott’s catalog, many of the songs on Out Past The Wires center around the lives of working people and the losses, defeats and small victories that can come hard won in a calloused world. It is here in the ordinary where Picott finds the gold he mines so beautifully on songs such as “Take Home Pay” – one of four songs written with longtime friend and co-writer Slaid Cleaves.

 

PRESS FOR ROD PICOTT
“mesmerizing” - 
Rolling Stone.com
“songs like Raymond Carver short stories” - Houston Chronicle  

“proves once again he’s a ringmaster at turning misery into art” - Boston Globe

ROTTEN TOOTH BROCK ZEMAN

When it comes to storytelling, Brock Zeman is a master craftsman. The Canada-based singer-songwriter has spent the past 12 years carving and chiseling Americana soundscapes, drawing from roots-rock and alternative country. But what separates Zeman from his contemporaries isn’t a willingness to speak truth – it’s his unwillingness to conform to the rules of Nashville and the traditional framework of genre. What gives Zeman’s stories force isn’t that he’s just singing a narrative – he’s living it.

Over the course of his career, Zeman has released 12 studio albums, one live record, toured North America extensively and received praise from numerous press outlets. “His songs have more depth than can be realized first time through, which only enhances with each listen,” wrote Penguin Eggs. Zeman has also won a slew of songwriting awards, including 2nd place at both 2016’s Unsigned Only Competition as well as the International Songwriting Competition (ISC) for his track “Pulling Your Sword Out Of The Devil’s Back.” In 2017 he returned to ISC as a finalist with his song “Dead Man’s Shoes.”

“I was inspired to write from the feeling I got when I listened to music,” Zeman recalls about his childhood. “I always hoped I could pass on the same overwhelming feeling to others.”

CALENDAR


DATE                                      PERFORMER 

APRIL 12TH                           SONGWRITERS iN THE ROUND
                                               (Rod Picott, Brock Zeman, Scott Aycock)

May 5th                                  Mark Stuart opener TBA

May 24th                                Gretchen Peters
                                                             with Ken Pomeroy opening  

June 1st                                 SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND
                                                             (John William Davis, others TBA) 

June 9th                                Malcolm Holcombe w/ Jared Tyler on                                                   dobro 

September 20th                    Watermelon Slim (opener TBA)                                                                                                                                 

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

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House Concerts Unlimited is pleased to announce, 

 Abbie Gardner and Jared Tyler in Concert!


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When:  Thursday, March 21st
Where:  The Stone Church 4225 W. 5th St. Tulsa, 74127
Time:  Doors open 6:30pm and show starts 7pm.
Suggested Donation:  $18 at the door and DOS, $15 in advance through paypal.  Click button below to make donation through paypal.
RSVP required, as seating is limited.  Your paypal donation will serve as your RSVP.  If you plan to pay at the door, please RSVP to scottaypoet@gmail.com
Food:  We will provide some food and beverages for this event, but any food contribution from you would be much appreciated.    Also, feel free to BYOB

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"Don't Be Afraid of Love" by Abbie Gardner

Abbie Gardner is a fiery dobro player with an infectious smile. Whether performing solo or with Americana darlings Red Molly, her acclaimed tales of love and loss, both gritty and sweet, are propelled by her impeccable slide guitar chops. Her live show is truly unique - as both an award winning songwriter and interpreter of folk styles, a captivating vocalist, and a world class lap style dobro player, she has an unmistakable sound all her own. Her latest CD, Wishes on a Neon Sign was released in January 2018, and features twelve original songs, including a co-write with Chris Stapleton. She has opened for Lori McKenna, Hot Rize and Martina McBride.

"Not only a first-rate Dobro player, but a songwriter to be reckoned with." --John Platt, WFUV

 

Jared Tyler - Dirt On Your Hands (lyric video)

Jared Tyler sings and plays as good as anybody. Period.
His songs are poignant justice.” — 
Malcolm Holcombe
“He transcends all the boundaries of music with a remarkable force
that makes his music timeless.”
 —Ray Kennedy
 
 

At a fevered time roiled by anxiety and hatred, what more healing antidote is there than love? Tulsa native and respected multi-instrumentalist Jared Tyler’s third album, Dirt on Your Hands, celebrates romance, to be sure, but also the grounded, loyal love of family, friends, and characters who illuminate one’s life with lightning-bolt intensity.
Thematically, it builds on 2010’s Here With You, which was informed by Tyler’s mounting dismay over the country’s direction. “I felt like, ‘Hey, y’all, wake up, it’s all about love,’” he recalls. Dirt on Your Hands is a rootsier, more compositionally focused Americana set bookended by paeans of devotion to his partner, and livened by sparkling romps (“Lucky I Am,” the pedal steel-washed “Fort Gibson Lake,” the Dobro-grooving title track) that dispense homegrown wisdom passed down by Tyler’s grandparents. At times he sounds like Darrell Scott’s kid brother, vividly evoking cherished people (“Gwendolyn”) and places (the beautifully melodic “Norway”) with his soulful tenor and nimble fretwork on guitar, Dobro, mandolin and ukulele. The longtime Malcolm Holcombe sideman also warmly interprets two of his boss’ songs, with gravelly harmonies from Holcombe himself.
Tyler has recorded eight albums with the “super inspiring” Holcombe (two of which he produced) and toured with him throughout North America and Europe, opening for the likes of Billy Bragg, Merle Haggard, Shelby Lynne and Wilco. On his own, Tyler has opened for Karl Denson and Nickel Creek, and relished performing onstage alongside heroes Emmylou Harris and Buddy Miller after Harris sang on his 2005 album Blue Alleluia.
Those enlightening experiences burnished Tyler’s artistry, and readied him for a broader stage on which to share his openhearted stories. Dirt on Your Hands is his most relaxed, truly realized album, recorded live in the studio with guitarist Kenny Vaughn, bassist Dave Roe and drummer Dave Dunseath, with additional contributions from virtuosic fiddler Casey Driessen, harmonica player Jellyroll Johnson, songwriter/pianist John Fullbright, clarinetist Mike Cameron, slide guitarist Seth Lee Jones and pedal steel player Roger Ray. Elements of bluegrass, country, gospel, pop, swing and Hawaiian music joyfully color images from Tyler’s past, and suggest a vision for his musical path forward.

Saturday, March 9, 2019

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House Concerts Unlimited is pleased to announce,

 

Sarah Potenza in Concert!
  
Nightingale opening show.


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Note from the Host:  Just want to urge you to check out Sarah Potenza.  Go listen to this artist sing.  She is one of my favorite artists that we have ever hosted at House Concerts Unlimited.  He songwriting, singing, and performing will leave wondering why she's not a huge star.  

When:  Sunday, March 17th
Where:  The Stone Church 4225 W. 5th St. Tulsa, 74127
Time:  Doors open 6:30pm and show starts 7pm.
Suggested Donation:  $18 at the door and DOS, $15 in advance through paypal.  Click button below to make donation through paypal.
RSVP required, as seating is limited.  Your payment through paypal will serve as your RSVP, but if you plan to pay at the door, then please RSVP to scottaypoet@gmail.com
Food:  We will provide some beverages and some food, but we would appreciate any contribution of food for this show.
BYOB also encouraged.  

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Sarah Potenza performing "The Mountain" at Music City Roots live from the Loveless Cafe on 4.09.2014

“I work for me,” Sarah Potenza declares at the beginning of Road to Rome, kicking off her second solo album — a record of self-empowered R&B, swaggering soul, and contemporary blues — with her own declaration of independence.

Filled with messages of self-worth, determination, and drive, Road to Rome shines new light on a songwriter whose career already includes multiple albums as front-woman of Sarah and the Tall Boys, a game-changing appearance on The Voice, and an acclaimed solo debut titled Monster. Released one year after she sang in front of 12 million people during The Voice‘s eighth season, 2016’s Monster prompted Rolling Stone to gush, “Potenza is to the blues what Adele is to pop: a colossal-voiced singer who merges her old-school influences with a modernistic sound.” Three years later, that sound deepens and intensifies with Road to Rome, an album that shows the full scope of Potenza’s aims and ambitions.

And just who is Sarah Potenza? She’s a songwriter. A bold, brassy singer. A businesswoman. A proud, loud-mouthed Italian-American from Providence, Rhode Island, with roots in Nashville and an audience that stretches across the Atlantic. Road to Rome spells it all out. Co-written by Potenza, produced by Jordan Brooke Hamlin (Indigo Girls, Lucy Wainwright Roche), and recorded with a female-heavy cast of collaborators, the album isn’t just her own story. It’s the story of all artists — particularly women, who remain the minority within the male-dominated music industry — who’ve learned to trust their instincts, refusing to let mainstream trends dilute their own artistic statements.

Nightingale - Long Haul