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Wild Honey Presents Chris Stamey and Mark Eitzel for the Autism Think Tank
To benefit the Autism Think Tank, Wild Honey Presents Chris Stamey (The dB's) and Mark Eitzel (American Music Club), two of most brilliant songwriters of the past 35 years on Backyard Stage on Sunday October 1st! Both artists will be performing brand new songs as well tunes from their extensive catalogs. Miss this show at your own peril. Tickets are $20 dollars and $40 with food.
Chris Stamey will be performing with Wild Honey Orchestra players: ROB LAUFER (electric guitar), Kaitlin Wolfberg (Violin), Matt Fish (cello). Mark Eitzel will be performing solo.
CHRIS STAMEY has participated in indie music of all stripes since the 1970s, as both a musician and a producer. After two now-classic albums with the dB's, 1981's Stands for deciBels and 1982's Repercussion, he started a string of acclaimed solo releases, including It's Alright, Fireworks, and Travels in the South. His recent albums include Euphoria, as well as Falling Off the Sky with the dBs. As a producer, he has worked with Ryan Adams, Alejandro Escovedo, Flat Duo Jets, Skylar Gudasz, Tift Merritt, and Le Tigre. Since 2010, Stamey has been musical director for an international series of concert performances of Big Stars classic album Third, alongside Big Stars Jody Stephens, Ray Davies, the Kronos Quartet, members of the Posies, R.E.M., Teenage Fanclub, Wilco, and Yo La Tengo; Thank You, Friends, a concert film of these arrangements, was released in March 2017. His original jazz radio play about the early sixties in Manhattan, Occasional Shivers, premiered nationwide on Christmas Day 2016 on American Public Media.
A new album, The Great Escape, is being finished now for 2018 release, to coincide with University of Texas Press's publication of his "songwriting memoir" of the CBGB era in NYC, entitled A Spy in the House of Loud. Stamey lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
www.chrisstameymusic.com
https://www.facebook.com/chrisstameymusic/
Mark Eitzels tenth solo album and his first in three years, Hey Mr Ferryman, was released on January 27, 2017, by Decor & Merge Records on LP, limited edition LP w/bonus disc, cd and download. Hey Mr Ferryman is Eitzels first full studio album recorded entirely in London. It was made at 355 Studios with Mercury Prize winner Bernard Butler (ex-Suede, McAlmont & Butler), who has produced and/or recorded albums with Tricky, Ben Watt, Bert Jansch, Edwyn Collins, and more. Butler produced Hey Mr Ferryman and played all of the electric guitar, bass, and keyboard parts on the album. Butler wrote of the process: I spent a fortnight on my own in the studio seeing where I could go, how to expand every mood, make the dark songs darker, the drama bigger, the joy more celebratory. I was elated when I sent initial mixes off and Mark was happy. The greatest gift for a producer is the trust of the artist with their work. I knew from the off with this record that the songwriting was in a different league. It was for me to find beautiful frames for each story.
Mark says of the album Many of these songs I demod 4-5 times with different musicians and arrangements over a couple of years including the great Bruce Kaphan and Patrick Main as well as my UK band and somehow they never came together for me. My manager met Bernard Butler at the school gates where their children go and asked if he would be interested. I sent Bernard my 15 demos and our original idea was to make an acoustic album because the budget was severely limited but he had different ideas and insisted on re-recording the whole thing and did an absolutely amazing job. I think this might be the best record I have made since recording with Tom Mallon of American Music Club. He produced the songs much as I imagined them though I didnt know it. Hey Mr Ferryman features the vivid melodies long associated with Eitzels former band American Music Club (aka AMC), which remains a cult favorite to this day, as well as Butlers distinctive guitar that serves to complement Eitzels expressive vocals. Of that voice, Pitchfork once wrote: If Leonard Cohens voice is a story about the passage of time and Levon Helms is a story about losing what is most precious to you, Eitzels is about the circuitous roads we take in search of ourselves. As both a solo artist and the frontman for AMC, Mark Eitzel is a celebrated lyricist and champion of the downtrodden. A hauntingly evocative singer, he has earned even greater notoriety for his brilliance as a composer, combining the intensity of Ian Curtis, the pastoral beauty of Nick Drake, and the melodrama of Scott Walker and Jacques Brel to build one of the most impressive and darkly poetic bodies of song in the modern pop canon. The songs on this record are about celebrating musicians and music, about misogyny, the long shadow of history, getting ones head out of ones ass, quips Eitzel on the themes of Ferryman. Also oceans, blood, skies, hearts, gay pioneers, carpenters, weeping women, and how death waits for you even in the happiest place on earth: Las Vegas. The album opens with The Last Ten Years which includes the lyric, Spent the last ten years / Trying to waste half an hour which, like the best verses, will leave you pensive and wanting more. The album continues with a sensuous love song (An Answer), an ode to the plight of the working musician (The Road), the growing political divide in America (In My Role as Professional Singer and Ham), the frustration of ripped trousers (Let Me Go), and Sleep From My Eyes, which Mark describes as an experiment to write a love song from the point of view of someone in a coma. As you do. As I wrote these songs, I moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles; painted two houses; spent all my money; threw away everything I owned; traveled to and from London, New York; performed various shows; gained and lost and gained 20 pounds; went to the doctor a lot; moved to the mountains; moved to New York; and ran my car into the ground, continues Eitzel.
Mark Eitzel has released over 15 albums of original material with American Music Club and as a solo artist. The Guardian has called him Americas greatest living lyricist, and Rolling Stone once gave him their Songwriter of the Year award. Originally formed in 1983, AMC released seven albums before breaking up in 1995. The band reunited in 2004 for two full-lengths, Love Songs for Patriots and The Golden Age. In April of 2012 while working on a solo record, Eitzel suffered a heart attack which forced him to slow down and delayed the albums release. That fall, Decor & Merge Records put out Dont Be a Stranger to much critical acclaim, and in 2013, a newly healthy Eitzel embarked on what proved to be the most successful tour of his career to date. In 2015, he wrote music for Simon Stephens Song from Far Away, his second collaboration with the English playwright, and began work on the forthcoming Hey Mr Ferryman.
The Wild Honey Foundation, a 501 (3)(c) non-profit, seeks to celebrate and keep alive the passion, creativity, and idealism of the musical giants of the late 20th century and pass on their legacy to future generations. Wild Honey shows bring together the global music community to raise funds for a variety of charitable causes, especially autism treatment/research and assisting ailing musicians in financial need https://www.facebook.com/groups/Wildhoneyfoundation/
The Autism Think Tank, NJ is an internationally recognized 501(c)(3) (Non-profit) organization whose mission is to facilitate the medical and psychosocial stabilization of the child and family. Bringing together a team of world renowned medical experts via telemedicine, the Autism Think Tank, NJ is designed to provide a multidisciplinary team approach to the identification and treatment of the complicated medical comorbidities of autism. The Autism Think Tank is committed to improving the lives of children and families in the home, school and community through comprehensive case management, community outreach, research and education.
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LocationWild Honey Eagle Rock Backyard Amphitheater (View)
1167 Kipling Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90041
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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| Owner: Wild Honey |
| On BPT Since: Mar 11, 2013 |
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