Wednesday, December 18th
Doors: 7pm / Two-Step Lesson 7:30pm / Show: 8pm
$15 in advance / $20 day of the show
21+
GEOFFREY MILLER
Boogie woogie cheating songs, love-lamenting ballads, rockabilly country bops, lonesome melodic soliloquies—the tones of Geoffrey Miller’s debut solo album “All Night Honky Tonk Man”—tell a story reaching back to Miller’s childhood.
Miller grew up breathing the air of country and oldies AM radio and listening to Waylon, Willie, and Hank Jr. cassettes in the dash of his adoptive father Vern Miller’s work truck. Echos of Bakersfield, California’s “Nashville West”, reverberate across the Central Valley to Sacramento, CA where Miller grew up through family record collections, boom box radios at summer trips to the river, and Hee Haw on afternoon TV. Picking up the frequency from a young age, Miller strummed on toy guitars and sang Merle Haggard verses as a child.
Fast forward to 2019, Miller bends crying notes from his fender telecaster over a room full of two-steppers and swing dancers on a hardwood dance floor. The worlds of country and rockabilly meld in a crowd topped with cowboy hats, pompadours, and pin-up style hairdos. Between the occasional classic by his favorites, Merle, Johnny Horton, and Faron Young, MIller’s original songs fill the room and make a direct connection to the moment. The clacking of a stand-up bass, the break-up of a 50s tweed guitar amplifier, and the slight rasp in Miller’s voice burrow into the audience with something real.
“All Night Honky Tonk Man” is the incarnation of personal truth rooted in the living lore of Americana country music. Years of playing guitar and singing in honky tonk bars, the discovery of lost musical heritage, and a true-life world of heartaches, wine and neon funnel into the album’s 12 original songs.
JERRY B. LOGAN & THE COUNTRY SQUIRESJerry B Logan with the Country Squires brings the twang. Hits from the times when Hank & Lefty crowded every jukebox and a nickle got you a song. Come to cry in your beer or honky tonk the night away. Noah Hall on the bass, Freddy Deubert on drums and Bob Kolb on the steel. The boys will joined for a few by the lovely and talented Miss Molly Joy. Molly is just out of the studio laying tracks for her first recording project. Come & get a preview!