HVBA Events

Event 

Title:

CB Smith: HVBA Showcase Series

When:

05/25/2012 07.00PM

Where:

Christ Church - Poughkeepsie

Description

Newton Community Room (enter from 20 Carroll Street)
A 45 minute open jam begins at 7pm
Performance begins at 8pm

$10/person and all the money (less our minor expenses) go to the band.

Refreshments will be available.

C.B. Smith & the Lucky Devils are a modern bluegrass band quartet, steeped in tradition (they tore the house up at Caffé Lena’s recent Bill Monroe Centennial concert) but eager to try new ideas.  Heck, they even use cello on a few songs.

Half of the band’s repertoire consists of C.B. Smith songs from the recent release “Flesh & Bone” and the forthcoming album “Hardscrabble Road”.  The rest is a blend of high-and-lonesome classics and grassed-up songs by an eclectic mix of songwriting talent that includes Monroe, The Rolling Stones and Stephen Foster.

C.B. says his own songs are about “ordinary people searching for some hard-won peace of mind. For my money no other style of music so powerfully talks about life’s joys and sorrows as bluegrass.  Especially the sorrows.  Maybe that's why it's BLUEgrass.  This music reaches a deep place that may need healing.  But, strangely enough, it’s great fun to play, great fun to listen to.  We get people dancing, if only in their seats.”

The multi-generational Lucky Devils lineup features fiddle phenom Megan Gugliotta, mandolin prodigy Jason Borisoff, Berklee-trained bassist Bill Strohm, and C.B. Smith on guitar and lead vocals.  Everybody sings, with four-part harmonies to make you swoon.

"C.B. has something to say about life's ups and downs and he expertly creates the rhythm, melody, and words to convey each story." - David Angell, Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association website

"Awesome work! C.B.'s songs ring true. There's no higher compliment as far as I am concerned." - Mary Gauthier

"A gem...from the introspective title track...to the dark and delicious North Country Blues, Smith hits home and hits hard." - David Malachowski, Daily Freeman, Kingston, NY

 

"Flesh & Bone is authentic, alright, so much so that you can hear the picks and fingertips on the metal of guitar strings...it's like you're right there in the room, feeling the electricity flash...Something ‘Bout a Train does in three minutes what most films can't accomplish in two hours in evoking the romance of rail travel." - Roll Magazine, February 2011

Venue

Venue:

Christ Church   -   Website

Street:

20 Carroll Street

ZIP:

12601

City:

Poughkeepsie

State:

NY

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