Phil Lee and Tom Mason YES YES YES!
O.k...it's time to start thinking about the next house concert and this one is going to be REALLY special!!! Phil Lee and Tom Mason will be at our place on Friday, April 1, 2011. We'll start with a potluck (feel free to join us---you don't have to bring anything--some people do, some people don't but it's great fun either way) at 6:00 and have music afterwards.
We'll need donations of $15 or more to make it happen. You can donate ahead of time by clicking on the picture of Phil at the top of the right column over there or you can donate at the time of the event. Please pass this invite on to others. We started out just throwing a party with music and it has kind of evolved into having house concerts on a semi-regular basis and asking for donations upfront. This has of course narrowed the crowd a bit so we're really looking to expand out list of people. We LOVE meeting other people that love to hear live music front and center like this so do NOT be shy. We NEED you to make this work and I can guarantee that Phil and Tom will be greatly entertaining with songs that will make you weep from both laughter and sadness! So please forward this to any friends you know, or email lists or what have you....
Here are a few quotes to get you going....
With thirty years of road work and songwriting, Nashville singer
songwriter Phil Lee is the real deal. You can hear it in his rough-edged
voice, and in the vivid imagery that his lyrics present, with stories of
worker-bee illegals, truck-driving killers, rats, weasels, and humans
with rodent-like qualities. Lee’s is a world of people on the literal and
figurative outskirts, straight out of Springsteen’s Nebraska, just a little
further south and with a sense of humor. And there’s always that
burning desire to rock to a country beat. They are songs without
judgment: Phil isn’t throwing stones, but he is a master knife-thrower
(seriously), so don’t cross him. His songs hit their target on first listen.
The new album is named after a Woody Guthrie classic updated on the
record with the Phil Lee touch, So Long It’s Been Good to Know You.
Get to know him before he gets away.
--Rush Evans, SteadyBoy Records
John Prine, Lucinda Williams, Guy Clark--if there’s ever a Music City Mount
Rushmore, save the fourth head for Phil Lee. Could this man be the best
songwriter in Nashville?
--Jim Ridley, Nashville Scene
The Don Rickles of disenfranchised nashtwang strikes again...Lee presents
himself as a lovable, if formerly dangerous, rapscallion. Skirting genre
boundaries between rock, soul and country with his music and writing lyrics
that knock right through walls of taste, decency and political correctness
without ever landing him in a punk-rockish, spittin' for show camp.
--Peter Cooper, Nashville Tennessean
You can rsvp on facebook and easily invite other people that way as well. Mark it on your calendars!! This is going to be great!