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(SOLD OUT) Paul Thorn w/ Amy Black
Sat December 28, 2019 8:00 pm (Doors: 6:00 pm )
3rd and Lindsley
All Ages
$40.00

(FULL BAND SHOW!)

Paul Thorn has created an innovative and impressive career, pleasing crowds with his muscular brand of roots music – bluesy, rocking and thoroughly Southern American, yet also speaking universal truths.

 

Among those who value originality, inspiration, eccentricity and character – as well as talent that hovers somewhere on the outskirts of genius, the story of Paul Thorn is already familiar. Raised in Tupelo, Mississippi, among the same spirits (and some of the actual people) who nurtured the young Elvis generations before, Paul Thorn has rambled down back roads and jumped out of airplanes, worked for years in a furniture factory, battled four-time world champion boxer Roberto Duran on national television, signed with and been dropped by a major label, performed [on stages with Bonnie Raitt, Mark Knopfler, Sting, and John Prine among many others, and made some of the most emotionally restless yet fully accessible music of our time.

 

He’s also appeared on major television shows such as Late Night with Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Kimmel Live, been the subject of numerous National Public Radio (NPR) features and charted multiple times on the Billboard Top 100 and Americana Radio Charts.


In 2018, Paul released an album titled Don’t Let the Devil Ride, which he describes as “the culmination of my whole life in music, coming back to my roots.” It marks his first time recording gospel music - featuring guests such as the Blind Boys of Alabama, the McCrary Sisters, and Preservation Hall Horns - and his creation of a body of strikingly original songs that address the foibles of human relationships without necessarily favoring the sacred over the profane.

AMY BLACK

As a singer and songwriter, Amy Black is known for her authenticity and versatility. Her love of many classic forms of American music led her from Boston, where she started her career...to Nashville...to Muscle Shoals...and, most recently, to Memphis to record with members of the Hi rhythm section (Al Green's backing band) for her latest release, MEMPHIS.

While always drawn to singers of soul, blues and gospel, it wasn't until Amy began exploring her own southern soul roots for her third album, THE MUSCLE SHOALS SESSIONS, that she knew her next project had to be made in the place where blues and soul converge (and where she herself was conceived); Black sought out members Hi rhythm section and Grammy award-winning producer Scott Bomar to help her lay down the sound she wished to make...the sound of MEMPHIS.

You can hear Amy’s song "Without You" in the Clint Eastwood film, The Mule, now streaming on Amazon Prime.