Stone Cupid: Julie Christensen, Sergio Webb and Chris Tench....FRIDAY!
Good Lord, I am behind, behind, behind talking about our next house concert. Time has gotten away from me but we are SUPER excited about our upcoming show this coming Friday, May 6, 2016. Julie Christensen will be here with our beloved SERGIO WEBB and Chris Tench. We have been wanting to have her here for awhile so I was thrilled when Sergio wrote and we pinned down this date.
Julie Christensen is now working out of East Nashville but she started out in LA's Divine Horsemen, and went on to tour with Leonard Cohen for a number of years. We love her most recent album (includes songs by Kevin Gordon and Chuck Prophet along with folks like David Olney and John Hadley) that just came out in January and can't wait to have her in our living room! A nice quote below from a recent No Depression article, and here's a link to another one.
You may not have heard of Stone Cupid, but you certainly have heard its founder, Julie Christensen, whose sublime vocals graced many recordings and live dates with Leonard Cohen. She formed this band in Nashville to explore her rock side and wrote its songs solo or with some folks you might know -- Chuck Prophet, David Olney, Kevin Gordon, and Cohen himself. Her return should not come as a complete surprise, since she co-fronted the LA punk-roots band Divine Horsemen in the early 1980s. To quote Skip Anderson in his ND review last year, "Her swagger is true to her rebellious punk-rock roots, and refined through working with the likes of Cohen, Iggy Pop, Public Image Limited, and Todd Rundgren [who produced an unreleased solo album]." Christensen has worn coats of many different colors, and this one's red. The Cardinal took flight on January 22. - Amos Perrine, No Depression
Sergio Webb, of course, needs no introduction to those of you that have been to a lot of our shows. Oh, maybe he'll bring some of the great Sergio shirts his wife Julie Sola designed! And he has a really great cd out himself. Chris Tench we have yet to meet but I know he's a sure thing if he's playing with these folks.
I love this song off of Julie's newest album, The Cardinal.
Here she is doing Leonard Cohen's Anthem with Alejandro Escovedo recently.
It's a Friday show so bring something to share if you can but no worries if you don't. I'm keeping it simple....maybe some grilled brats and the like, and a salad of some sort. Anything is welcome. BYOB. $20 suggested donation. If you can't do that, bring what you can. It's being divided up between the three of them but we'd rather have you come with a little less than not come at all.
And besides....you get to come see Sergio's eyes twinkle. One of the few people I know whose eyes really twinkle. Crazy.
Write with any questions....and please share the hell out of this. I would love, love, love to have a good crowd for them!
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