Jill returns as the featured guest for Stacy Jone’s songwriter night at the Madison Ave. Pub in Everett Thursday July 9th at 7pm! It’s always a blast when Stacy and Jill get together and groove on their original tunes.
Madison Avenue Pub
905 Madison Street
Everett, WA
Jill Newman returns to Stones Throw Brewery with original roots and blues tunes from her newest album, Little Bit of Luck, with bassist Patrick McDanel!
6pm – 8pm
1009 Larrabee Avenue
Bellingham, WA
Free and family friendly!
Electric Guitarist, songwriter and singer, Jill Newman will play songs from her newest album, Little Bit of Luck, at the White Rock Jazz & Blues Festival on Saturday June 6th!
Show times and Locations:
11:30am-12:30pm at Five Corners performance site (Pacific Ave and Johnston Road)
1:30 – 2:15pm at Laura’s Coffee Corner performance site (15259 Pacific Avenue)
This is a free and family friendly event!
Every Thursday night in July at the Beach at Birch Bay. We’ll be playing danceable covers and original roots, blues and soul.
The Beach at Birch Bay (outdoor stage, weather permitting)
7876 Birch Bay Drive
Blaine, WA
6:30pm – 8:30pm
Thursday July 27th
This year’s Northwest Folklife Festival is all about beats, rhythms and the traditional roots of the music we enjoy today. I’m thrilled to be a part of the 44th Annual Festival as a blues performer and have been inspired by the artists who paved the way for contemporary blues artists, especially the women. From the guitar stylings of sister Rosetta Thorpe and Memphis Minnie to the slide playing of Bonnie Raitt and Debbie Davies, there are plenty of women who’ve led the way for the next generation of female blues musicians. I’ll be playing a featured set as part of the Lady Sings the Blues Showcase on Friday May 22nd at 4:45pm. C’mon out and enjoy the Festival.
Blame the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. And, while you’re at it, the White Stripes, Black Keys, and every other act that at some point decided the only thing Robert Johnson’s old recordings were missing was a lethal injection of distortion and some serious tub-thumping on the back-end. Somewhere along the line, blues rock fell out of fashion, replaced by blues rawk that sounds more indebted to Led Zeppelin than Leadbelly.
Jill Newman dials back time on Lovestruck Blues, a record that features an unfussy and economical production job that’s retro-sounding without seemingly precious or coldly calculated. The singer has a voice that’s more well-worn country twang than back-alley blues, but that works to her advantage on numbers like the strutting “Too Hard to Handle” and the last-call shuffle “Without You”.
As for the playing, if you’re looking for obnoxious showboating, better to haul that old Stevie Ray Vaughan vinyl out of the crawl space. Newman’s unflashy but solid work always comes down on the right side of tasteful, so close your eyes and cue up the title track and you’re transported to a honky-tonk somewhere deep in Tennessee—the kind of place where there’s sawdust on the floor, cigarette smoke hangs thick in the air, and no one has ever heard of those overamped phonies known as the Soledad Brothers.
Mike Usinger on Twitter at @mikeusinger.
http://www.straight.com/music/653851/jill-newman-travels-back-simpler-time-lovestruck-blues#
