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Another Landmark season in Yachats
Landmark Lounge announces July 2009's live music lineup
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[Posted June 22, 2009]
Players from two of New Orleans’ first families of music bring true Louisiana funk to the Coast on Saturday, headlining a summer-long lineup of national and international performers at the Landmark in Yachats.
Russell Batiste and Friends with Jason Neville bring together the sons of two of the founders of the seminal funk bands, the Meters (Aaron Neville) and the Gladiators (David Batiste). Russell Batiste became drummer in 1989 for the Funky Meters, the reincarnation of the original Meters. He is also a member of Porter Batiste Stoltz and plays regularly with organ player Joe Krown and guitarist Walter “Wolfman” Washington as the Krown Washington Batiste trio. This band released a live CD Live at the Maple Leaf in 2008.
Batiste and Friends is just one of the national bands heading for the Landmark, 12 in all before the season is over. They come from New York, St. Louis and Los Angeles, from North Carolina, Texas and New Orleans.
“Bands often need a freshener out of their home territory,” Landmark music booker Bruce Olson says. “We manage to snag them as they travel around in the summer.”
Another national band plays this weekend, the sizzling blues/rock of the Eric Jerardi Band from Toledo, Ohio, on Friday. He’s been a mainstay of several House of Blues stages around the country and likes to share a mike with Dan Ackroyd on the House of Blues radio show.
The Independence Day weekend starts out with a soulful Friday with Terry Evans, whose just been nominated a Muddy award for his work with the Dutch folk star Hans Theessinks. Evans, originally from the Mississippi Delta and now living in Los Angeles, made records with Ry Cooder and Bobby King and sang the title track in the influential blues film “Crossroads.”
Evans’ band is followed Saturday night, July 4, with Jim Suhler, the nine-year lead guitar in George Thorogood and the Destroyers. Suhler has three CDs in his own right with his band Monkey Beat, which will be ripping some old school rock the night of the Yachats fireworks show.
Robin Rogers, another nationally nominated artist, hits the club on Thursday, July 9. She was honored in the best female blues vocalist category for “Treat Me Right,” a CD that includes “Color-Blind Angel,” a moving account of the life and death of white civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo, assassinated by the KKK in 1965.
On Saturday, July 11, from St. Louis, it’s the Bottoms Up Blues Gang – singer-percussionist Kari Liston and guitarist-harmonica player Jeremy Segel-Moss, a small gang to be sure, but one that manages to get the full-band sound, especially when a few locals join them on stage. The Gang has averaged 275 shows a year in the past four years, released three albums, and twice won the Peoples Choice Award for best acoustic blues in St. Louis.
Sunday, July 19, sees the Harmed Brothers, from North Carolina, for a little Americana, and on Sunday, Aug. 16, Eric John Kaiser from Paris, France, brings in the sounds of an international troubador.
The summer will also see the return of Rockin’ Jake, whose previous shows at the Landmark have become legendary. He’s sliding into town for a Thursday night gig, Aug. 6, bringing his five-straight “Best Harmonica Player in New Orleans” awards with him. Jake plays an ambitious schedule and this summer is touring from Buffalo, N.Y., to Long Beach, Calif.
On Thursday, Aug. 20, Runaway Pete Karp, an East Coast folkie from New Jersey, makes his Landmark debut. Raised in the trailer parks of Southern Alabama and the swamps of North Jersey this Yankee/Rebel songsmith can spin a yarn. USA Today says Karp is “a great writer and performer whose songs are driven by verbal word play and insights into the human experience like James Taylor and Bob Dylan.”
Also in August, on the 23 and 30th, a pair of Sundays, come the Balkan influenced Petrojvic Blasting Company, and the Italian strings of Gypsy Moon. Both of these show start at 5 p.m.
The season winds up with two Saturday night shows, Sept. 5 with Studebaker John, and Sept. 12 with Todd Wolfe, from Texas and New York. The Studebaker has done some serious rewrites of the blues in four Blind Pig recordings. He plays a stinging slide guitar and launches occasionally on a raunchy harp.
Wolfe, who also lives in New Jersey and plays the New York and Philadelphia regions most of the year, takes a tour in the summer and has landed at the Landmark a couple of times. He has built a solid career after leaving the Sheryl Crow band four years ago.
The summer at the Landmark will also feature bands from Portland, including Lisa Mann, T Ray and the Shades, Diggabone, Pilar French Intention, as well as groups from Eugene, Salem and the coast.
“These shows allow an up-close look at some of the best players in the country,” Olson says. “You never know what you’re going to get, but you know it will be great quality in an intimate setting.”
The Landmark Restaurant, 111 Hwy. 101 in Yachats, is open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday. The kitchen at the Landmark Lounge offers a late night menu until 1:15 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights. To learn more, call the restaurant, 541-547-3215, or the lounge, 541-547-5459.
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Landmark Lounge
Sizzlin’ Sounds of July 2009
No cover unless otherwise noted
Friday, July 3 The Terry Evans Band (9 p.m., $5 cover)
Saturday, July 4 Richwood (1 p.m.) Jim Suhler & Monkey Beat (9 p.m.)
Sunday, July 5 Terry & Lito (5 p.m.)
Thursday, July 9 Robin Rogers (9 p.m.)
Friday, July 10 Speed Limit & the Violations (9 p.m.)
Saturday, July 11 Bottoms Up Blues Gang (9 p.m.)
Sunday, July 12 Lozelle Jennings & Henry Cooper (4 p.m.)
Thursday, July 16 Jerry Zybach Blues Jam (7 p.m.)
Friday, July 17 Henry Turner Jr. & Flavor (9 p.m.)
Saturday, July 18 Pilar French Intention (9 p.m.)
Sunday, July 19 The Harmed Brothers (5 p.m.)
Friday, July 24 The Streamliners (9 p.m.)
Saturday, July 25 Diggabone (9 p.m.)
Thursday, July 30 Outpost (9 p.m.)
Saturday, July 31 Parish Gap (9 p.m.)
For details, call 541-547-5459.
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