Okay, for all you country and folk lovers, Slaid Cleeves....

I saw him tonight in a bar in Cleveland, the Rock-n-Roll capital of the world which, BTW, is not being visited by either Cold Play or Depeche Mode on their current tours...

After spending the evening with this very gifted and soft singing guitar playin' story teller, well I say who needs the big acts....

This guy had more passion and showed us more about life than anything I have ever heard for either of those headline acts.....

And I do like their music, it just seems to me to be too constructed, to devoid of real emotion and feeling....

Slaid, well he ran the gamut from funny songs like If it Wasn't for Divorces and Horses to heart rendering real people ballads such as Broke Down, the story of a band of gold with words of love written on the inside layin' at the bottom of Lake Ponchetrain....

All I can say is thank god for Austin Texas, the city that Nashville loves to hate, the city that nurtures talented music while the rest of the country turns a deaf ear.....

If you get a chance, listen to this young man sing.... Catch him now, he will be a star someday. And since Cleveland loves this guy, we will keep him...

The rest of you can have Cold Play... And I'd say we would get the better of it.....

thank you ... :thumbsup:

There were some bikers there... Your trike would have looked good in front of the joint.....

Slaid Cleeves....I'll make a note of his name...

He sounds excellent......and you are the expert in this....

I wonder if he has recorded anything? I'll google him and see...

Hope it was smoke-free for you...

:hi:

It's a new genre they have come up with called Americana.....

He's been traveling all over the country for about 10 uears now, trying to get his career going....

Yes, he has a few albums out....

I'm no expert, just like good music....

Believe it or not; could you point me in the direction of a webby of his?

http://www.slaid.com/

You gotta hear Broke down or My Drinkin Days are over....

I saw him at the beachland Ballroom.. And old ethinc club and bar bought byt the woman who use to run the Cleveland Free TImes, Cindy Barber.......

they have a web site....

He was great, E..... A breath of fresh air....

I'll see if I can get ahold of him a a link up to his webby of the station site...

He's a fan of my boy Fred Eaglesmith, one of Canada's greatest songwriters; I like him already..

with Russel Crow who told him one of his songs Fucking got to him.....

It was an hilarious story....

Then he sang a folk song about a log jam that went horribly wrong only made it funny, if such a thing is possible,,,,,

It's one of my favorites from him. Did he have the crowd do the "Oo - Ah's"?

I really would have liked to be there.

It was funny......

Slaid isn't quite as sarcastic as Fred is in concert.

If you like his style, try Robbie Fulks, too.

I have a natural block against spellin'

It's probably why I ended up an accountant.....

there is tons of good music out there jusy like that. 'americana' rocks!

Or one of those other little bitty NE states.

He moved to Austin because he knew he could make it there with the type of music he does.

We love him but can't claim him originally.

FSC

Itty bitty states, indeed FSC!
He was in a band called the Moxie Men before he decided to move to Austin where the music scene suited his style.
Slaid is a great storyteller and has very entertaining narrative in concert.

Ya gotta understand. Anything smaller than Alaska looks little tiny to us Texans.

We think nothing of a 300 mile road trip for the weekend. "Just down the road" in Georgetown is how I think of my cousin, who's 200 something miles away.

:hi:
FSC :blush:

Mainiacs could travel 300 miles without leaving that state but it would be an awfully long trip what with the paucity of wide, straight roads on flat land, not to mention the problem of "you can't get there from here."

:hi:

I knew he was from Maine... He told us last night....

He is a tall dude.

Talk politcs.......