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Willy Tea Taylor, Leslie Stevens, and Bob Sumner
The Roost Presents:
Willy Tea Taylor
Leslie Stevens
Bob Sumner
21+ | 7PM | $10 adv, $12 day of show.
3 artists, 1 show. Join us for a night of great songwriting in the county/Americana vein, with artists from California and Canada.
Willy Tea Taylor
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Willy Tea Taylor is a father, brother, and son. His remarkable ability to sing about profound subjects in a simple way makes his songs a great place to lose yourself. Much of that comes from his upbringing.
Willy grew up surrounded by rolling hills and horses in the small town of Oakdale, California. Known as the Cowboy Capital of the World for breeding so many world champion rodeo cowboys, Oakdale is still Willys home and the setting for many of his songs.
Despite coming from a long line of cattlemen his grandfather Walt was one of the most respected of his generation Willys first love was baseball. As a catcher, he had a gift for the nuances of calling a game from behind the plate. When a knee injury ended his ability to catch, Willy turned his attention to music.
At the age of 18, a discerning and intimate set by Greg Brown at the Strawberry Music Festival inspired Willy to pursue life as a folk singer. Strawberry would play an integral role in Willys development as a musician, going from spectator to stagehand, to performer. He made his main stage debut with his band the Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit at the 2009 festival. In 2015, Willy made his solo debut on the main stage. Willy has charmed fans at some of the best festivals in the country.
On his new release Knuckleball Prime, Willy received support from greats like Benmont Tench (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers), Greg Leisz (Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton), and Gabe Witcher and Noam Pikelny of the Punch Brothers. Of the albums title, Taylor says most baseball players peak in their twenties, but knuckleball pitchers tend to blossom in their late thirties and early forties. Im staring down my knuckleball prime.
Leslie Stevens
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Awarded Best Country Singer in the LA Weeklys 2018 Best Of, you can feel Leslie Stevens voice reach the nails in the doorframe. She spins a high craft, with songs about donkeys and drinking and driving in heavenand just when you thought she might light your living room on fire with a giggle, shell blast you through the skylight into outer space. The LA Times calls her "one of the city's best" and Chris Ziegler (LA Record) explains that Leslie has "the kind of voice you'll realize you've been waiting to hear since forever." Shes sung on records by Jim James, Father John Misty, Jonathan Wilson, and live with Joe Walsh, Jackson Browne, and John Fogerty, as well as other musicians not beginning with the letter J. Brave lyrically and vulnerable in spirit: Leslie never shies away from laying down whats what, if only to leave a mark on the most golden part of your soul.
Bob Sumner
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"I'm kind of a junkie for sad songs and ballads," says Bob Sumner, the younger half of Vancouver-based Americana outfit The Sumner Brothers. "As a teenager most of my friends were into hip-hop, but I felt pretty out of place rolling around suburban White Rock, British Columbia, pumping gangster rap." Sitting in his room with his headphones on, Sumner compiled downhearted mixtapes pulling together the more introspective songs of CCR, The Band, Led Zeppelin, Emmylou Harris. As he began writing his own songs, this innate attentiveness to songcraft and emotional understanding became a hallmark of Sumner's songwriting and aesthetic. In the years since, he's released five albums with The Sumner Brothers, blending sounds as disparate as Neil Young and The Dead Kennedys, but Bob Sumner's Wasted Love Songs (out January 25) presents Sumner back in the bedroom, attentive to the quieter recordings of his formative years. Helmed by the gentle intentionality of Sumner's voice and lyricism, this rare debut from a songwriting veteran expresses the timeless quality found in the melancholy of Townes Van Zandt, the atmospheric momentum of Tom Petty, and the prophetic restlessness of Bruce Springsteen.
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LocationThe Firefly Lounge (View)
1015 N State St
Bellingham, WA 98225
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 21 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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