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Friday 7th July, King's Head
Friday 7th July, King's Head TIM
WILLIAMS with Jim
Condie
Lots of people regard Ry Cooder as the most supremely accessible acoustic guitar sound of the century. And lots of people love good acoustic blues.
So the arrival in Allendale on Friday July 7th of a real roots wizard from North America's west coast, with a sound like that of a blue Ry Cooder, along with an accompanist we've grown to know and love, Mr. Jim Condie, is a real treat.
Tim Williams has been in constant demand by blues and roots festivals stateside ever since he settled in Vancouver in 1970. He's appeared with all the blues greats, from BB King, John Hammond, George 'Harmonica Smith, Honeyboy Edwards, Big Walter Horton, Lightnin' Hopkins, Taj Mahal -- the list goes on and on. Add in comics Steve Martin, jazz musicians Larry Coryell, and even bluegrass superstars like Earl Scruggs, and you get some idea of the breadth of his talent and audience.
Reviews across the western states and prairies are revealing too: "an easy-going, seemingly effortless country blues style"; "covering the Mississippi Sheikhs, Tampa Red, Blind Blake, Robert Johnson and WIllie McTell takes a lot of nerve but Tim Williams pulls it off; "all the gifts of a Ry Cooder and a dash of bluesy grit". I've been listening to his latest CD, 'Indigo Incidents', and it is certainly the real thing. His vocal style is easy and simple, straight from the heart and unaffected, while his guitar feels like it's ever so gently ripping my heart out.
Entertaining on guitar, slide guitar, mandolin and six-string banjo, in a delightful acoustic pair of sets with the well-honed guitar accompaniment skills of Jim Condie, this duo looks like a brilliant night of down-home raw acoustic blues at any price.
But for the summer season, and running into September, the Northumbrian Music Nights group are offering a special 2 for 1 sale on their starred 'Guys with Guitars' events. Pay for one *GWG* gig, and get into another one of your choice absolutely free! So this is live musical value that grows and grows, the more you listen. And isn't that the way music should be?
What we said
about Tim Williams with Jim Condie
Friday 14th July
NORTHUMBRIAN MUSIC
NIGHT
in which entertainers
provide all kinds of live music, for mutual edification and
good times.
Saturday 15th
July
Saturday 15th
July The MICKI MOUSE
EXPERIENCE
Friday, Saturday and
Sunday, 21st - 23rd July
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 21st - 23rd July
BRAMPTON LIVE
Sounds like an
incredible weekend!
Friday 28th
July
Friday 28th July
SPECIAL MUSIC
NIGHT!
(with special guests,
'Through the Quay Hole')
A song and drama
experience typifying the Geordie culture through the ages,
with extra participation from the floor.
King's Head
Always free entrance to
performers
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