Americana Cafe Sundays at Roberts Hall

BY MICHAEL MCKINNEY

Legendary Texas singer/songwriter Eric Taylor will appear at Roberts Hall in Lynn Haven Friday night, December 5th, for one show only. Presented by local folk duo singer/songwriters Lucky Mud as a part of their Americana Café Series, the performance will be upstairs in the historic music hall where Hank Williams, Sr . played in the late 1940s.

Eric Taylor’s original songs have been recorded by artists such as Lyle Lovett, Joan Baez and Nanci Griffith. As his songwriting skills grew, he began turning his incredible stories into songs such as Dean Moriarty, Whooping Crane, Hemingway’s Shotgun and Deadwood.

One of Taylor’s students in his writer’s workshops, Lyle Lovett, included Taylor’s Memphis Midnight/Memphis Morning on one of his albums. “Eric was a real teacher for me,” Lovett says. “I learned so much from the way he structured a song, and I’d try to learn his songs within days of hearing them.”

Two years ago, Lovett recorded Taylor’s Whooping Crane, and his upcoming album includes Taylor’s Understand You. Lovett sings Memphis Midnight/Memphis Morning as a duet with Taylor on Eric’s newest CD. Eric Taylor said about that CD, “I always wanted to wait till I had a big bag of songs and choose the ones I wanted on a record, but this’ll be a little different. I want a little blood on the bone on this record.”

Eric Taylor in Concert is a presentation of Lucky Mud’s concert series Americana Café Sundays at Roberts Hall. Lucky Mud has brought the finest of Americana artists to the Hall with an amazing variety of original music, from nationally known acts such as Pierce Pettis, Dana Cooper and Sally Spring to a selection of fine local and state talent. Every Sunday’s concert begins at 4 p.m. following a very good open mic at 3 . Information on the series is available at www.luckymudmusic.com.

Lucky Mud will end its second year of concerts at Roberts Hall with a full day music festival in January, Lucky Mud’s Roots and Wings Music Festival, which will feature Lucky Mud, Brian Smalley – a truly remarkable musician/singer and songwriter who creates what he calls “Acoustic Novels”, The New 76ers – a great young trio from Tallahassee, and a show closer with Kamm and MacDonald – a nationally renowned duo from Northern California.

[box type=”shadow” align=”aligncenter” ]Roberts Hall is located at 831 Florida Avenue, Lynn Haven. Purchase of advance tickets for the Eric Taylor concert is strongly suggested – $15 in advance or $20 at the door the night of the concert. Doors open at 6:30. Lucky Mud will play at 7 pm. The Eric Taylor concert will begin at 8 pm.

For further information, contact: 850-722-4915

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