Looking to ease into some KC blues this weekend -- and maybe a purple silk shirt, too?
On Friday night, the Hideout (6948 North Oak Trafficway, 816-468-0050) hosts the J.D. Summers Band. Led by Jordan D'Ray Summers, a 29-year-old guitarist, keyboard player and vocalist, this band boasts a solid party song lineup. How could you not respect a band that makes these promises on its Web site?
We only play with the highest quality instruments available and always have back up equipment on hand in case of the unforeseen malfunction. We provide lights, top quality PA, and flyers in advance, as well as a weekly update to more than 100 fans on our mailing list. The one thing we don't bring is drama. We show up on time, play solid and provide a memorable evening for all. We understand this is business and as such we treat your club, your staff and your customers with the respect they deserve.
You deserve that, right?
Or maybe get started building local blues tastes with a few sets from Fast Johnny Ricker.
Fast Johnny, who has opened for the Fabulous Thunderbirds, George Thorogood and Chubby Carrier lays down his mean slide guitar at B.B.'s Lawnside BBQ this Saturday. Check out his experimental Texas/Delta Blues from 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.
But the real action this weekend, I mean, the real action ...
is definitely at MerleJam.
As Jason Harper wrote in this week's Pitch...
When Tom Petty sang, You got a heart so big/It could crush this town, he could have been talking about Merle Zuel -- in more ways than one. When Zuel, a longtime heart-condition sufferer, got a transplant in February 2007 at St. Luke's Hospital, his original ticker was about twice the size of the normal human heart, breaking the hospital's record by 100 grams, according to an article that ran afterward in the Lawrence Journal-World. This year marks the third anniversary of the live-music benefit concert that Zuel, a former local music booker, founded after his surgery. Extending over two nights, MerleJam pulses Friday and Saturday at Knuckleheads Saloon. Beginning at 8 p.m. Friday, an ampersand-heavy, all-country lineup featuring Tater & the Gravy Train, Outlaw Jim & the Whiskey Benders and Justa Billy & the Bull Hollers breaks out the honk. Blues is the order for Saturday; the seven-band bill begins at 5 p.m. and includes Danny Cox, Four Fried Chickens and a Coke, Chicago's Joe Moss and Howard & the White Boys, and climaxes with South Dakota blues-rockers Indigenous. Cost is $10 in advance for the first night, $15 for the second. Net proceeds from the concert go to the Saint Luke's Hospital Foundation-MerleJam Transplant Fund.
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can't wait for the big show merle. it's getting better every year. and so are you.
You rock, Merle. I hope your Jam is a whopping triumph this weekend. And also that the weather's kind to it!
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