Venue: Fatback Soul Shack, Christiansburg
Organizations: New River Blues Society, The Billy Crawford Band
Date: Friday, August 16, 2019
Time: 7:00 - 10:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost: $5.00
Description:
Fatback Soul Shack presents Blues Friday with The Billy Crawford Band on the outdoor stage on Friday, August 16, 2019.
Billy Crawford was raised playing bass in church, then gaining an early hard-rock pedigree on electric guitar. But for the past three decades, he has turned his six-string action toward the blues. Now playing with his band, The Billy Crawford Band, he performs blues rock across the region.
Blues guitar might be associated with Mississippi, Texas and Chicago, but a man of the mid-South has something to say about that. The city of Bristol, smack on the Tennessee / Virginia border, claims itself as the birthplace of country music. But one of its native sons is making a huge blues noise.
The common denominator in all of this is Billy Crawford – raised playing bass in church, then gaining an early hard-rock pedigree on electric guitar. But for the past three decades, he has turned his six-string action toward the blues.
For much of the 1990s, audiences around the world heard Crawford’s intense work with blues-rocker Deborah Coleman. He gave up the road in 2002, when his wife gave birth to their son. Turns out, son Tyler is a little guitar hotshot, too.
But his daddy still has something to say. His Bristol-based Billy Crawford Band includes some of that region’s finest blues men. The fire is still burning blue from Crawford’s Guitar, as he rips through blues, ballads, rock, surf – even New Orleans-style. Underpinning it all is a band with plenty of energy and mastery of dynamics.
Links:
• http://www.thebillycrawfordband.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/TheBillyCrawfordBand
There is $5.00 cover.
The concert is sponsored by the New River Blues Society.
For more information, visit: http://www.fatbacksoulshack.com or https://www.facebook.com/fatbacksoulshack or call 540-251-3182.
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