Thursday, Feb 26th @ Pappy & Harriet’s featuring Travis Meadows 8pm-12am
Friday, Feb 27th @ Schmidy’s Tavern, Nashville and SoCal Songwriter Showcase, Benefiting Street Life Project Outreach for Local Homeless (Granville Automatic only)
Saturday, Feb 28th @ Schmidy’s Tavern FULL PERFORMANCE 9pm-12am
By Lisa Morgan
GRANVILLE AUTOMATIC: You may have first seen Vanessa Olivarez on the second season of American Idol. Her vocal skills and personality got her into the televised finals only to be controversially eliminated, much to the disappointment of many Idol viewers. However, my first experience with Granville Automatic was via a streamed concert with popular, Nashville songwriter, Travis Meadows. Elizabeth skillfully strummed the original melodies on guitar. Vanessa opened her mouth. Out poured a voice like warm honey, that effortlessly and immediately inspired those “Holy crap, that’s gorgeous” kind of chills in all of us as she delivered story after heart gripping story surrounding the American Civil War. While I’m generally critical of female voices, hers absolutely owned me as she and Elizabeth painted beautiful, nostalgic pictures and stories, some of which can only be found within the generations of families who have protected their family histories, honoring the blood sacrifices that were foundational in making our country what it is today.
With their natural, fluid ability to make beautiful, meaningful music, and their down to earth sense of humor and absolute likable nature, Granville Automatic work their way into a heart like few others. These ladies who spend much of their time between Atlanta, Georgia and Nashville, Tennessee, will be performing their collection of story-songs with a full band Thursday and Saturday, joined by the phenomenal, Ted Russell Camp. This will leave audiences inspired and educated in the true stories of the American south, the ones you will not find in history books.
TED RUSSELL CAMP: After decades spent holding down the bottom end for bands as diverse as Shooter Jennings and Wilson Phillips, Ted Russell Kamp has become the go-to guy for bands needing a player that can easily and soulfully handle many genres of music. The past five years, however, have found Kamp rising to be one of the current stars out of California on the National Americana and Country scenes as he has focused on his own career with constant touring of the US and Europe, and releasing six solo albums. His most recent, Night Owl.
Easily his most autobiographical work, the album documents the many phases of a man comfortable in his own skin, yet constantly searching for more answers to the mysteries of life. The record reflects the sound of several cities Kamp has become familiar with from country music roots of Nashville, the rock-gospel blues of Tulsa and Texas and the cosmic American country rock sounds of L.A. All of the songs were written on the road or in brief breaks from touring and the record, produced by Kamp, was actually recorded in L.A, Nashville, Fort Worth, Tulsa and Helsinki, Finland. Ted, an accomplished producer in Los Angeles, and also produced Granville Automatic’s self titled album.
