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Willy Tea Taylor & The Sam Chase at The Ruins (Hood River, OR)
The Ruins is pleased to welcome singer-songwriters extraordinaire Willy Tea Taylor and The Sam Chase.
This show will be in the Back Room, the indoor venue at The Ruins.
Willy Tea Taylor is a father, brother, and son. His remarkable ability to sing about profound subjects in a simple way makes his songs a great place to lose yourself. Much of that comes from his upbringing.
Willy grew up surrounded by rolling hills and horses in the small town of Oakdale, California. Known as the Cowboy Capital of the World for breeding so many world champion rodeo cowboys, Oakdale is still Willys home and the setting for many of his songs.
Willy calls John Hartford, Roscoe Holcomb, Bob Dylan, KISS, Weird Al Yankovic and Willie Nelson his biggest influences, but is always quick to advocate for his favorite contemporary songwriters which include Tom VandenAvond, Nathan Moore, and his Good Luck partner in crime, Chris Doud. He and VandenAvond have travelled the country together on a series of tours they call Searchin for Guy Clarks Kitchen where each evenings show is just a precursor to an endless quest for the kind of serene late night scene depicted in the cult classic documentary Heartworn Highways.
On his new release "Knuckleball Prime," Willy received support from greats like Benmont Tench (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers), Greg Leisz (Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton), and Gabe Witcher and Noam Pikelny of the Punch Brothers. Of the albums title, Taylor says most baseball players peak in their twenties, but knuckleball pitchers tend to blossom in their late thirties and early forties. Im staring down my knuckleball prime.
Led by producer Michael Witcher, the songs on Knuckleball Prime are arranged and accompanied magnificently by a first rate team of musicians and engineers. If youre a fan of well-written lyrics, alluring melodies, and a voice that ties them together with emotion as deep as the artists own roots, youll savor Knuckleball Prime, and just about anything else Willy Tea Taylor has ever done.
Sam Chase:
"I love Sam Chase. Hes got mischievous eyes and a booming voice. Hes a clever songsmith and a dazzling performer. He was born in the punk scene and raised on the back of Merle Haggard and John Prine and was given dollops of Woody Guthrie in his oatmeal. Hes sensitive and gruff at the same time in equal doses. I call him sensigruff. His voice is so powerful he couldve cut through the noise on the floor of The New York Stock Exchange in the height of the 80s. Everyone wouldve just shut their pie-holes and listened to what the man had to say. Sam Chase is an American original and a welcome card carrying member of the united family of songwriting troubadours. God bless you Sam Chase."
- Steve Poltz
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LocationThe Ruins (View)
Railroad Street
Hood River, OR 97031
United States
Categories
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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