North Bay Livea

Upcoming Events, ALL AT STUDIO E; details follow

• Thurs., September 18, 2008, STEVE SESKIN, ALLEN SHAMBLIN and CHUCK JONES

• Wed., September 24, 2008, SLAID CLEAVES with MICHAEL O'CONNOR

• Fri., October 10, 2008, TERRI HENDRIX with LLOYD MAINES and STEVIE COYLE

• Sat., December 13, 2008, KENNY WHITE (details & tickets available soon)

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Nashville Songwriters

in the round

STEVE SESKIN, ALLEN SHAMBLIN

and CHUCK JONES

STEVE SESKIN

Looking forward to Steve's return to STUDIO E. He has seven number one songs, including Grammy-nominated “Grown Men Don’t Cry,” recorded by Tim McGraw, and “Don’t Laugh at Me,” winner of NSAI Song of the Year. This year he brings two different fellow songwriters:

ALLEN SHAMBLIN

In 1989, it was Randy Travis’ #1 version of He Walked On Water, which brought Allen to the forefront of the songwriting community seemingly “overnight”. This began a string of award winning songs throughout the 1990’s and on into the new millennium such as Walk On Faith , In This Life, Thinkin’ Problem, Life’s A Dance, We Were In Love, Don’t Laugh At Me, Live, Laugh, Love, Where The Blacktop Ends, and Dove Award winner It’s In Gods Hands Now .

I Can’t Make You Love Me, a song co-written with Mike Reid and recorded by Bonnie Raitt, was nominated for a Grammy Award and voted the #8 song of “The 100 Greatest Songs Of All Time” in he August 2000 issue of Mojo Magazine.

Shamblin rarely travels to California so it's a huge treat to be hosting him!

CHUCK JONES

Chuck Jones

House Concert at
Studio E

Rural Sebastopol

7:30 p.m. concert /

7:00 doors

$25 in advance

Tickets are available at the Last Record Store ($1 per ticket service fee)

1899 Mendocino Ave.

Santa Rosa

To get tickets through

mail order, send a check, payable to LAURIE SCHAEFFER, to

Laurie Schaeffer

1275 Fourth Street , PMB 653

Santa Rosa , CA 95404

Please include a self-addressed stamped envelope, along with a note indicating which concert(s) you'd like tickets to. The tickets and the map to STUDIO E will be sent back.

Contact:

Laurie Schaeffer

musicfan@sonic.net

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 24, 2008

SLAID CLEAVES

with

MICHAEL O'CONNOR

SLAID CLEAVES

Slaid Cleaves is known as a "songwriter's songwriter," which is usually a polite way of saying "he can't sing." But there's no need for decorum with the Maine-born, Texas-based troubadour: For all of his command of song craft, Cleaves would still be working as a pharmaceutical guinea pig were it not for his warm, gently burred tenor. He phrases like a grifter trying to croon his low-down past away -- and writes like he knows he never will. When his new folkie peers see angels over every other barista's shoulder, Cleaves sees through sentiment. "I've been chasing grace but grace ain't so easily found," he sings on "One Good Year," just one of many subtle, momentary stays against the dark side of his heart. That heart doesn't bleed easily -- but when it does, it bleeds true.

House Concert at
Studio E

Tickets are available at the Last Record Store (1899 Mendocino Avenue, Santa Rosa) + a $1 per ticket service fee.

To order tickets via the mail, send SASE, check (payable to Laurie Schaeffer) and note indicating which concert(s) you want tickets for, to:

Laurie Schaeffer

1275 Fourth St., PMB 653

Santa Rosa, CA 95404

Tickets and a map to STUDIO E will be returned to you.

Contact:

Laurie Schaeffer

musicfan@sonic.net

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2008

TERRI HENDRIX

with LLOYD MAINES

and STEVIE COYLE

Two great singer-songwriters and an incredibly talented "side man" come to our "living room" . . .. and we're invited to sit in and watch and listen!

TERRI HENDRIX

Over the course of the last decade, Terri Hendrix has evolved from a modest coffeehouse act into one of Texas’ most beloved songwriters and a stubbornly independent business woman … To loosely quote one of Hendrix’s new songs, everything seems to be coming around her way.

~ Richard Skanse, XL Austin American Statesman

Hendrix's music showcases a brace of tuneful, sharply observed roots songs that cheerfully defy easy stylistic pigeonholing.
~ Chris Morris, Billboard

Hendrix has a firm but fanciful way of laying down a song, impressing me as much with her lyrics as with her innovative melodies.

~ Kay Clements, Freight Train Boogie, KWMR Program Director

STEVIE COYLE

Stevie Coyle (late of the infamously talented string band, The Waybacks) spent his early years surrounded by music, thanks to a radio station-running dad, mandolinist mom, string-meister David Lindley as his first guitar teacher, and a bluegrass band as next door neighbors. Stevie himself has led a somewhat checkered past, including stints as a university theology major, as a traveling sword swallower with The Royal Lichtenstein Circus, and as an animal show announcer at Marine World/Africa USA. All this and more provides grist for his quirky, tuneful, and insightful songs.

LLOYD MAINES

Long before Dixie Chicks were even full-grown, Lloyd Maines (father of Dixie Chick Natalie Maines) had established himself as a country music giant, both as a legendary steel guitarist and a producer.

Maines' pedal steel work seems to crop up everywhere, from work by earlier non-mainstream country artists to upstarts. He has carved out a career as a sought-after producer.

Lloyd has produced most of Terri's CDs and Lloyd and Terri have been performing together for almost eleven years. Maines also produced the last CD of the Waybacks when Stevie was with the band.

House Concert at
Studio E

Tickets are available at the Last Record Store (1899 Mendocino Avenue, Santa Rosa) + a $1 per ticket service fee.

To order tickets via the mail, send SASE, check (payable to Laurie Schaeffer) and note indicating which concert(s) you want tickets for, to:

Laurie Schaeffer

1275 Fourth St., PMB 653

Santa Rosa, CA 95404

Tickets and a map to STUDIO E will be returned to you.

Contact:

Laurie Schaeffer

musicfan@sonic.net