{"id":24577,"date":"2021-09-23T14:04:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T18:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=24577"},"modified":"2021-09-23T14:04:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T18:04:19","slug":"on-stage-katie-henry-headlines-at-jameys-house-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=24577","title":{"rendered":"On Stage: Katie Henry headlines at Jamey’s House of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Denny Dyroff<\/strong>,\u00a0 Entertainment Editor, The Times\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Katie Henry<\/p><\/div>\n

Katie Henry, who will headline a show on September 24 at Jamey\u2019s House of Music (32 South Lansdowne Avenue, Lansdowne, 215-477-9985, www.jameyshouseofmusic.com<\/a>), is one of the bright new prospects in America\u2019s flourishing blues scene. Her band features Antar Goodwin on bass, Jem Seidel on drums and Eric Santana on guitar.<\/p>\n

She is a talented and versatile blues guitar player. Ironically, neither blues nor guitar were her starting points.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up playing piano,\u201d said Henry, during a phone interview Wednesday morning prior to a rehearsal with her bass player in Philly\u2019s Mount Airy section. \u201cI also played clarinet in middle school.\u201d<\/p>\n

Henry\u2019s musical journey began when she was six and started taking piano lessons. She quickly became the \u201chouse\u201d piano player for all night family singalongs and very soon began crafting her own songs in the back of her school notebooks. Heavily involved in school band, her passion for music continued to grow in college, where she also picked up the guitar. <\/p>\n

\u201cI loved being in bands,\u201d said Henry, who grew up and attended high school in Vernon, New Jersey. \u201cI also loved playing for family and other gatherings. It was the best way to bond with other people.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went to Manhattan College in the Bronx. I graduated in 2014 with a degree in education. I was a teacher for three years in Riverdale in the Bronx.<\/p>\n

\u201cI joined a jazz band in college playing piano and also went to open mics. It was just a way for me to continue playing.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne night, I was at an open mic at the Bitter End and met Antar. We had similar interests o we started a blues band. I was playing piano at the time. He put a guitar in my hand, and I stared playing chords. He opened the door and I stepped through. That was five years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy first guitar was a Strat and then I got an SG. Now, the Atele Guitar is my favorite.\u201d<\/p>\n

Henry\u2019s musical world had expanded.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I started playing guitar, I was listening with new ears,\u201d said Henry. \u201cI had listened to the Allman Brothers Band. Now, I was tuning in to Dickie Betts. I like simple melody lines \u2013 like the playing of Robbie Robertson. I consider myself a melodic guitarist. Some of my biggest influences have been Freddie King and Susan Tedeschi.<\/p>\n

\u201cAntar and I started the band four years ago. We\u2019ve played wit a lot of different drummers. Jem, our current drummer, is really good. He\u2019s young and really talented.\u201d<\/p>\n

Henry\u2019s debut album, \u201cHigh Road,\u201d debuted at Number 12 on the Roots Music Reports Top 50 Contemporary Blues Albums chart in January 2019 and has continued to receive consistent airplay on radio stations throughout the country.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cI made \u2018High Road\u2019 in 2018 at Showplace Studio in Rockaway, New Jersey with a great engineer — Ben Elliott.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe recently passed away and his studio closed. I was lucky to record there before it closed down. It had a lot of great gear including a lot of analog recording equipment. I was there for two sessions \u2013 about a week total \u2013 and did a lot of recording analog.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just cut a new album in May 2021 at Degraw Sound in Brooklyn. Ben Rice produced the album and played guitar on it. We\u2019re getting ready to release it in January.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video link for Katie Henry — https:\/\/youtu.be\/SNWdJfZRlZ4<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show on September 24 at Jamey\u2019s will start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance and $18 at the door.<\/p>\n

Another show this weekend at Jamey\u2019s is Michael London on September 25.<\/p>\n

Area blues fans will be in for a double treat when 118 North (118 North Wayne Avenue, Wayne,\u00a0www.118northwayne.com<\/a>) presenst a twinbill featuring JD Simo and GA-20.<\/p>\n

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JD Simo<\/p><\/div>\n

Simo is known for his sizzling shows \u2013 concerts that blow the roofs off venues and leave audiences physically and emotionally drained.<\/p>\n

Prior to the pandemic, Simo built up his reputation locally \u2013 and his fanbase \u2013 with several intense shows at the Sellersville Theater.<\/p>\n

Like all musicians, he is happy to be back on the concert trail after the pandemic forced a hiatus for live shows.\u00a0 But he wasn\u2019t hit as hard as other musicians during the layoff.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been doing a lot actually,\u201d said Simo, during a recent phone interview from his home in Nashville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were pretty fortunate. We finished a really long tour last February. So, we were getting ready to take some time off anyway. I got home at the beginning of March.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a way, it was also terrifying. Playing live shows account for 90 per cent of my income. I do 150 shows or more a year. In 2016, I did 260 shows. The COVID shutdown was my longest break since I was a teenager and I\u2019m in my 30s now.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then, the pandemic hit.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike everyone, I was unprepared in how to deal with this new normal,\u00a0so I turned to the thing that always helps me \u2013 music. I just started playing, opening up my socials and jamming and from that,\u00a0\u2018Mind Control\u2019\u00a0was born.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMind Control,\u201d which is being released in November, is Simo\u2019s most original and rawest effort to date. During lockdown in 2020 along with playing live weekly on his socials, he began cutting tracks in his makeshift studio joined by longtime collaborator\u00a0Adam Abrashoff\u00a0on drums and the addition of his good friend, bassist-producer-engineer\u00a0Adam Bednarik.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a few weeks, I couldn\u2019t handle the layoff,\u201d said Simo. \u201cI got tested every Monday and then I\u2019d get together with my buddies every Wednesday and Thursday. We\u2019d just get together sand play. That went on for the length of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also did Livestreams. Every week, I\u2019d play a song I had recorded with my guys. That led to different placements. It actually became one of the busiest portions of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simo grew up in Chicago\u2019s North Side and began playing guitar before he even started elementary school. In 2006, he moved to Nashville, where he established himself as the lead guitarist in the Don Kelley Band. This led to Simo\u2019s employment as an in-demand session musician.<\/p>\n

In 2010, he joined bassist Frank Swart and drummer Adam Abrashoff to form the rock band SIMO. The band spent much of 2011 on tour and released its debut album in November 2011. SIMO\u2019s third and final album was \u201cRise and Shine\u201d in 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe old band \u2013 it had run its course with that particular lineup,\u201d said Simo, during a phone interview. \u201cA year ago, I had my first solo tour opening for Tommy Emmanuel here in America. I had never done that before. It was a very liberating experience. I\u2019d walk onstage and do whatever I wanted to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty much always been a trio. I have always preferred the trio format. When Buddy Guy was touring in the 60s, it was always a trio. When Magic Sam toured, it was always a trio. Playing in a trio is pretty wide open. It\u2019s fun. And it makes it really easy to improvise. You can really get out there.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery night is different. We don\u2019t work with a set list and typically don\u2019t play the same songs every night. And every song is open to where it\u2019s going to go. We have 20-30 songs in regular rotation. Some follow similar structures while the rest are really wide open and can be different every night. Every show starts with an improvisation.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a few weeks, Simo\u2019s new album will drop.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy new record is coming out on November 5,\u201d said Simo. \u201cIt\u2019s compiled from a year\u2019s worth of sessions. We were just throwing stuff on a pile.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t until February this year that I started going back and listening. A lot were funk instrumentals and Afrobeat. There was a handful of songs influenced by \u2018Hills Blues\u2019 from Mississippi that I fused with Afrobeat.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomehow, everything worked out well for me. Now, I don\u2019t feel like I have to do 200 shows a year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video link for JD Simo — https:\/\/youtu.be\/CGK6MN-SOCM<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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GA-20<\/p><\/div>\n

The high-energy electric blues trio GA-20 features guitarist Matt Stubbs, guitarist\/vocalist Pat Faherty, and drummer Tim Carman. They have drawn inspiration for their primal, original music from late 1950s\/early 1960s blues, R&B and rock \u2018n\u2019 roll. They use rare and vintage gear (including at times the famed Gibson GA-20 amplifier for which the band is named), creating powerfully raw, driving music that is at once traditional and refreshingly modern.<\/p>\n

\u201cPat and I have been friends for years,\u201d said Stubbs, during a recent phone interview from his home in Providence, Rhode Island.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was really into jazz and was just getting deeper into blues. In late 2017, he came to one of my shows.<\/p>\n

\u201cI played guitar with Charlie Musselwhite and also toured with Ben Harper\u2019s band. Then, I was looking at a year of no work because of the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stubbs was looking to put a new project together to do blues gigs aside from his Psych-Rock group, The Antiguas. Faherty had spent several years studying blues guitar and joined forces with Stubbs to form a new group. Early performances by the band had a rotating group of musicians with Faherty and Stubbs the core members. They adopted the name GA-20 in early 2018.<\/p>\n

The project was born out of their mutual love of heavy traditional Blues, R&B, and Rock & Roll of the late 50s and early 60s. Faherty and Stubbs bonded over legendary artists like Lazy Lester, J.B. Lenoir, Earl Hooker, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush and Junior Wells. Feeling a void in current music, the duo set out to write, record and perform a modern version of this beloved art form. Joined by drummer Tim Carman in 2019, GA-20 is a trio featuring two guitars, vocals and drums.<\/p>\n

\u201cPat and I wanted to do low-key local gigs playing early Chicago blues,\u201d said Stubbs. \u201cWe were doing gigs every Wednesday night in Boston and it kind of snowballed.\u201d<\/p>\n

GA-20 released its debut album \u201cLonely Soul\u201d in October 2019 on Karma Chief\/Colemine Records. The album debuted at Number 2 on the Billboard blues charts. \u201cLive: Vol. 1\u201d, released the following year, debuted at Number 1 on the Billboard blues charts and brought the band\u2019s live sound to a wider audience.<\/p>\n

In August 2021, the band released its new album, \u201cGA-20 Does Hound Dog Taylor: Try It\u2026You Might Like It!,\u201d a 50th anniversary celebration of Hound Dog Taylor. The album came out on Colemine Records in partnership with the legendary Alligator Records.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter we released the live EP, Bruce Iglauer (founder\/president of Alligator Records) reached out to us to do a record for Alligator,\u201d said Stubbs. \u201cSo, the label co-released it with Colemine.<\/p>\n

\u201cHound Dog Tayler\u2019s band was two guitars and drums. We\u2019ve always been compared to Hound Dog because we have two guitars and no bass. Now, people who aren\u2019t familiar with Hound Dog are buying our album.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iglauer\u00a0(then a shipping clerk for\u00a0Delmark Records) tried to persuade his employer to sign Taylor to a recording contract after he heard Taylor with his band, the HouseRockers in 1970 at Florence’s Lounge on Chicago’s South Side.\u00a0In 1971, having had no success in getting Delmark to sign Taylor, Iglauer used a $2,500 inheritance to form\u00a0Alligator Records, which recorded Taylor’s debut album,\u00a0\u201cHound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers.\u201d\u00a0The album was recorded in just two nights. It was the first release for Alligator, which eventually became a major blues label.<\/p>\n

\u201cHound Dog and his band played blues so differently,\u201d said Stubbs. \u201cThey were so bombastic. And they really played as one. They played off each other with a jazz sensibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe made this new album to celebrate 50 years of Hound Dog and 50 years of Alligator Records.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video link for GA-20 — https:\/\/youtu.be\/qG-aBv2grCM<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On a Thursday near the end of each month, the Candlelight Theater (2208 Millers Road, Arden, Delaware,\u00a0302- 475-2313,\u00a0www.candlelighttheatredelaware.org<\/em><\/a>) switches from a theater for plays and musicals to a venue for comedy.<\/p>\n

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John\u00a0Poveromo<\/p><\/div>\n

On September 23, it\u2019s time for Candlelight\u2019s February edition of its \u201cComedy Club.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0John\u00a0Poveromo\u00a0will be the main act with Joann Filan as the opening act and Katrina Braxton as the emcee.<\/p>\n

Poveromo is likely to change his set on the spot based on the crowd and whatever is on his mind.<\/p>\n

Born in Brooklyn and raised in Toms River,\u00a0Poveromo\u00a0gravitated toward humor ever since he was a youngster.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t hang out in the music scene,\u201d said\u00a0Poveromo, during a recent phone interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was much more interested in stand-up. For me, humor was a way to cope with stuff. I saw grownups coping with things with humor. I remember when I was about five and my parents were watching a video of Richard Jeni\u2019s \u2018Crazy from the Heat\u2019 and they were laughing like crazy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also really liked Robin Williams from his TV shows like \u2018Mork & Mindy\u2019 and that was another gateway to comedy for me. Then, I got into Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Reiser and Ellen and found out they all started with stand-up. And I liked stand-ups because they told it like it was.\u201d<\/p>\n

Poveromo\u2019s knack for being funny became evident during his high school days.<\/p>\n

\u201cI ended up getting named \u2018Class Comedian\u2019 out of 500 kids at Toms River East High School,\u201d said\u00a0Poveromo. \u201cMy sense of humor was always about cracking jokes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went to college after I graduated high school at Brookdale Community College. I didn\u2019t want to go to college, but I had to do it because if you didn\u2019t go to college, you were a failure.<\/p>\n

\u201cI left school after a year and took a stand-up course in New York. That was back in 2005. My first time on stage was at Carolines On Broadway \u2013 no pressure, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

Carolines on Broadway is a venue for stand-up comedy located in Times Square in New York City on Broadway between 49th and 50th Street. It is one of the most established, famous, and recognized stand-up comedy clubs in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was taking a risk,\u201d said\u00a0Poveromo. \u201cI wasn\u2019t going up with \u2018five minutes of comedy that worked\u2019 attitude. I thought \u2013 you just go on with whatever when you get onstage.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the beginning, I\u2019d go up with a couple ideas. I just do my own material \u2013 whatever I wanted talk about \u2013 because I\u2019m naturally funny.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since childhood,\u00a0Poveromo\u00a0has enjoyed making strangers laugh. He has written comedy for shows on HBO and VH1, as well as his own book, \u201cDrawings From a Nobody,\u201d which features his comic-strip style drawings of scenes from everyday life.<\/p>\n

Poveromo\u2019s perfect blend of self-deprecation and optimism makes him a dynamic and unpredictable performer who is both engaging and fun to watch as he struggles to make sense of himself and the world around him.<\/p>\n

He can be heard on Sirius XM Radio, has been featured at the Jersey City Comedy Festival and The New York Underground Comedy Festival, and has appeared on Comcast On Demand\u2019s \u201cYoung Comedians Showcase.\u201d<\/p>\n

Poveromo\u00a0also has written for a variety of shows, including ESPN\u2019s Sports Nation, Current TV\u2019s Viewpoint with John Fugelsang, Joy Behar\u2019s Say Anything on HLN, The Independents, and CNN Newsroom, as well as Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld, Hannity, and VH1\u2019s \u201cBest Of\u201d series.<\/p>\n

Poveromo hosts \u201cDystopia Tonight,\u201d a livestreaming show on Twitch, multiple times per week; after it runs, it\u2019s edited and posted on YouTube, as well as on Apple and Spotify as a podcast. The show was conceived during the pandemic, when comedians such as Poveromo were brainstorming ways to adapt and reinvent themselves.<\/p>\n

It started as comics sitting around shooting the breeze (Tom Papa, Judy Gold), and has expanded to include actors (Megan Cavanagh, Ed Begley Jr., Ed Asner!), musicians (Art Alexakis from Everclear, Marlana Sheetz of Milo Greene), and visual artists (comic book artist John Romita Jr. and Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist Steve Breen), and most recently comedy legend Lewis Black.<\/p>\n

Early this year Poveromo and some colleagues produced a live-stream comedy show on Twitch to raise money for children\u2019s cancer charities and broke the Guinness World Record for the longest live-streamed comedy event. Two hundred and fifty comedians participated and clocked 90 hours. The prior record was 80.5 hours.<\/p>\n

Now, Poveromo is headed to the stage at Candlelight.<\/p>\n

Video link for John\u00a0Poveromo — https:\/\/youtu.be\/FrCM6Cc7ALA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tickets are $30 and include complimentary light fare buffet,\u00a0cash bar, and free parking.\u00a0Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and show starts at 7:40 p.m.<\/p>\n

The Candlelight Dinner Theatre\u2019s brand-new mainstage production \u2013 \u201cThe Best of the Candlelight Theatre\u201d \u2013 is having its first full weekend Friday through Sunday. The show, which opened on September 18, will run through October 31.<\/p>\n

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Amigo the Devil<\/p><\/div>\n

Amigo the Devil, who will be performing on September 25 at Underground Arts (1200 Callowhill Street, Philadelphia, http:\/\/undergroundarts.org<\/a>), is the stage name of Danny Kiranos.<\/p>\n

If he were performing for his mother\u2019s side of the family, which is from a very Catholic region to the west of Madrid, Spain, he probably should stick with his birth name rather than a name associated with el Diablo.<\/p>\n

If he were performing for his father\u2019s side of the family, which is from Athens, Greece, he could wear a PAOK jersey to bedevil his Greek kin who are devout fans of Olympiacos. PAOK, which is located in Thessaloniki, and Olympiakos are perennially the best football (soccer) teams in Greece.<\/p>\n

When Kiranos is performing for his ever-growing legion of fans in America, the name Amigo the Devil works just fine.<\/p>\n

Kiranos is now touring in support of his new album, \u201cBorn Against.\u201d Song titles from the album offer an indication of what to expect \u2013 titles such as \u201cMurder at the Bingo Hall,\u201d \u201c24K Casket,\u201d \u201cLetter From Death Row,\u201d \u201cQuiet as a Rat\u201d and \u201cAnother Man\u2019s Grave.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe place I\u2019m writing from doesn\u2019t feel like it\u2019s dark,\u201d said Kiranos, during a phone interview last week from a tour stop in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the songs \u2013 I don\u2019t feel like they\u2019re that dark. Then, people tell me how dark they think it is. I don\u2019t really have a skewed opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kiranos\u2019 songwriting reflects some of his cultural influences such as Chavela Vargas, a Costa Rica-born Mexican singer, and Diamanda Galas, a Greek American avant-garde composer and performer.<\/p>\n

\u201cMusic cultures have been a surprising influence,\u201d said Kiranos. \u201cChavela Vargas is one of my favorite singers. She was one of the most aggressive dynamic vocalists. She was my mom\u2019s favorite. And Diamanda Galas is really intense.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted those dynamics to be there in my music. Tom Waits has also always been an influence. At times, I wish I could let loose a little more. The new album showed the most.<\/p>\n

\u201cWriting took me a long time, but I wouldn\u2019t say it was hard. I have to be in a place and isolate myself. The pandemic helped. I think this album was the easiest to write. It was more instinctual. It definitely was a different process. I wrote it in a stream of consciousness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBorn Against\u201d dropped in Spring 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cI recorded \u2018Born Against\u2019 in the summer of 2020,\u201d said Kiranos. \u201cI made the album at Modern Electric Studio in Dallas with Beau Bedford as the producer and Jeff Saenz as the engineer. Ninety per cent of the record was Beau and I playing together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video link for Amigo the Devil \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/uHDzYr3hcx0<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show at Underground Arts on September 25 will start at 9 p.m. Tickets are $22. On September 28, the Sellersville Theater (24 West Temple Avenue, Sellersville, 215-257-5808,\u00a0www.st94.com<\/a>) will host Bob Malone.<\/p>\n

Malone is an American virologist and immunologist. His work has focused on mRNA technology, pharmaceuticals, and drug repurposing research. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was criticized for promoting misinformation.<\/p>\n

Oops \u2013 wrong Bob Malone.<\/p>\n

Next Tuesday, the venue will present a concert by Bob Malone, a distinguished instrumentalist, songwriter, composer, live performer, and elite session musician for more than two decades.\u00a0Malone, who has played keyboards for John Fogerty for the last decade,\u00a0is now showing off his talents as a solo artist on his latest album, \u201cGood People,\u201d which was released on May 21.<\/p>\n

Malone tours solo at times and with his band other times.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m touring with my band now,\u201d said Malone, during a phone interview from a hotel in Detroit. \u201cThere are seven of us \u2013 piano, bass, drums, guitar and three Malonettes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Malone\u2019s four touring bands\u00a0are made up of all-star players from around the globe and include A-list session players in Los Angeles, New York, New Orleans, and Rome. Artists his bands have toured and recorded with include The Neville Brothers, Journey, Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, Joe Cocker, Jerry Douglas, Gino Vannelli, Joe Sample, and Claudio Baglioni. Add to this the gospel powered Malonettes background singers and it adds up to a high energy, eclectic hybrid of rock, blues, melodic piano pop, and New Orleans R&B, with a light dusting of jazz chops all around.<\/p>\n

Malone\u2019s bi-coastal ensemble features Rich Zukor – Drums; Ritt Henn – Bass; Anthony Babino – Guitar; Celeste Butler – Vocals; Trysette Loosemore – Vocals; Beth Falcone – Vocals; and LaDonna Burns – Vocals.<\/p>\n

\u201cI live in L.A. \u2013 Studio City \u2013 but this band is mainly based in New York City,\u201d said Malone. \u201cWe\u2019ve just played a couple shows so far. Many of these musicians played on \u2018Good People.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cMy new album is my 10th album overall. I didn\u2019t want to put it out in 2020. Now, I really want to get the songs out there, so I put the album out this spring. Even now, I just started my solo tour dates.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cut some of the album in New York City, some of it in New Orleans and the rest of it in L.A. Most of it was done in 2018 and 2019. Then in 2020 on the day everything locked down, we were in the studio in L.A. \u2013 Speakeasy Sound \u2013 recording the last track. The other studios we used were East Side Sound in New York and Esplanade Studios in New Orleans.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Malone, it was a project to explore \u201cthe loss, burnout, alienation, existential dread and fleeting moments of hopefulness I happened to be going through – in spite of the carefully curated self I presented to the world on social media. Nothing new, of course, but in 2020 those feelings suddenly became more universal than they\u2019d ever been in my lifetime.\u201d
\n\u201cGood People\u201d grabs onto\u00a0Malone\u2019s \u201ckeyboard wizardry\u201d on the piano and serves up a variety of bluesy rock — ranging from contemplative ballads to all-out sweeping jams, all carried along by smoky vocals and\u00a0Malone\u2019s unmatched ability to wrest every drop of emotion out of the keys possible.<\/p>\n

Malone and keyboards have a romance that has lasted for decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cI stared classical piano lessons when I was about a year old,\u201d said Malone. \u201cAbout a year in, I got obsessed. I couldn\u2019t stop playing. I was playing in a band when I was 15 and I\u2019ve been playing for a living since I was 18.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Beatles were one of the first things I heard that got me into rock. Aldo, I discovered that if I played Billy Joel, girls would crowd around. If I played Beethoven, no-one would crowd around.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really wanted to write songs. That form of communication appealed to me greatly. I wanted to be a songwriter. My early influences were Paul Simon, Bob Dylan and Randy Newman. I also listened to a lot of New Orleans piano and jazz piano players.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wrote my first song when I was 15 or 16. I didn\u2019t start to seriously play original songs until I was in college. The first time I did a whole show of my own tunes was in 1986 at The Channel \u2013 a rock club in Boston which no longer exists.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was in Boston going to school at Berklee studying piano, arranging and performing. After college, I stuck around Boston for a few years. Then I went to L.A. and put together a band.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy best friend from New York was working at The Record Plant in L.A. so he would let me come in at night and do some recording when the studio wasn\u2019t being used. I got a publishing deal. I got some record deals that didn\u2019t work and the started on and indie career doing 200 shows a year.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pandemic altered that course \u2013 but just for a while. Now, Malone is back on the road and heading to Sellersville next week.<\/p>\n

Video link for Bob Malone — https:\/\/youtu.be\/GQUYRVsM2m8<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show at Sellersville on September 28 will start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $<\/p>\n

Other upcoming shows at Sellersville are Southern Accents on September 23, Tom Paxton on September 24, Hollywood Nights on September 25, Dana Fuchs on September 26, and Big Brother & The Holding Company on September 27.
\nThe upcoming week\u2019s schedule at Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center (226 North High Street, West Chester, uptownwestchester.org<\/a>) includes Dueling Pianos on September 23 and Kashmnir on September 24.<\/p>\n

The Ardmore Music Hall (23 East Lancaster Avenue, Ardmore, 610-649-8389,\u00a0www.ardmoremusic.com<\/a>) is presenting Sarah Jarosz on September 24, David Uosikkinen\u2019s In The Pocket on September 25 and Melvin Seals and JGB on September 29 and October 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Denny Dyroff,\u00a0 Entertainment Editor, The Times\u00a0 Katie Henry, who will headline a show on September 24 at Jamey\u2019s House of Music (32 South Lansdowne Avenue, Lansdowne, 215-477-9985, www.jameyshouseofmusic.com), is one of the bright new prospects in America\u2019s flourishing blues scene. Her band features Antar Goodwin on bass, Jem Seidel on drums and Eric Santana […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4357],"tags":[7520,3162,9994,8242,8128,9993],"class_list":["post-24577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-d-arts-entertainment","tag-amigo-the-devil","tag-featured","tag-ga-20","tag-jd-simo","tag-john-poveromo","tag-katie-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24578,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24577\/revisions\/24578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}