READ THIS, PRINT THIS OUT Hi there everyone, these are the Blatant Plugs from Memphis, Tennessee. No extra charge for type-ohs! You must be pretty darn musically hip to be on this list, or a friend of someone who is to put you on the list. If you do not wish to receive further notices, please just let me know. If you want to add a friend to the list, let me know ... thanks! APRIL 7 THIS WEDNESDAY NIGHT is the NEXT SONGWRITER NIGHT at the SOUTH END. Besides Nancy of course, is BRUCE BILES aka KIDD BLUE, DELTA JOE SANDERS, and HAL HAWKINS! Show starts at around 9:30 or whenever you get there..... Tell everyone you know. Last gig at the South End was a terrible turnout....... What am I going to have to do to get you to show up? Wear thet blue dresss from the Premier Player Awards? The batteries are still charging back up! (oh, and you thought that was just my big ass back there huh?) at Huey's Downtown (of course the crowds are always better in midtown) Talkin' about DIANE PRICE and her Boyfriends Yes, though Hueys has thrown out their Sunday Jazz Policy after nearly 20 years, you can still hear a couple of members of the Midtown Jazzmobile backing up the Empress of Memphis Barrelhouse Piano at Hueys Downtown on the following Sunday afternoons from 4 - 7 : April 11th April 25th You can expect to hear plenty of sultry blusey numbers from her new cd release, A Good Man is Hard to Find which of course will be shamelessly hawked from the tiny bandstand in the window. APRIL 20 is the next songwriter night ar JUSTINS! Featuring Justice Natchez, Klaudia Ploderer, and Roy Brewer. Show time is at 7:30 assuming someone does not get lost on the way to the gig!!! "This is a public service announcement - with guitar!'' Joe Strummer I understand Mose Allison will be making the scene at Hi-Tone April 8. The Peabody rooftops open TAX DAY!!!!! April 15 with Kevin Paige. The Mid-town Rhythm & Blues party to benefit Porter Leath Children's Charities is being held at Askew Nixon Ferguson Architects (outdoors, indoors, & the courtyard), 1500 Union Ave. on APRIL 24. Kevin Paige hits the stage at 8:30 to get the crowd pumped up and going early, while Southern Lights & The Memphis Sound keep it going late with the widest mix of music in the mid-south. COMING UP MAY 7, 8, & 9 Beale Street Music Festival I think the line up is on their site www.memphisinmay.org It is pretty cool Reba Russell Band KoKo Taylor Wilson Picket Dr. John Clarece Carter Booker T Sheryl Crow Bobby Blue Bland Marcia Ball James Cotton Billy Lee Riley (about the only real rockabilly there that I have seen so far) The Bar-Kays Los Lobos R.L. Burnside GUESS WHAT YA'LL!!!!!! The band got invited by the Twang Gang to play at TwangFest 3 in St. Louis!!!! Coming up JUNE 10, 11, & 12 at Off Broadway in St. Louis!!!!! Yea Hawwww Here is the Thursday Night Line Up When We Play on JUNE 10 12am: V-Roys (Knoxville, TN - headliner) 11pm: Jim Roll (Ann Arbor, MI) 10pm: Deliberate Strangers (Pittsburgh, PA) 9pm: Cadillac Cowgirl (aka Nancy Apple) (Memphis, TN) 8pm: Elena Skye and the Demolition String Band (Hoboken, NJ) FRIDAY JUNE 11 The Damnations TX (Austin, TX - headliner) Jim Stringer and the Austin Music Band (Austin, TX) Hayseed (Nashville, TN) Gypsy Mechanics (Nashua, NH) Old Rip (Chicago, IL) SATURDAY JUNE 12 Dale Watson and His Lone Stars (Austin, TX - headliner) Ex-Husbands (Nashville, TN) Buck Diaz (Philadelphia, PA) Heartbreak Hill (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) Polish Hillbillies (Pittsburgh, PA) We think you'll agree with us that this is one achingly cool lineup. For all the latest developments, be sure to check out the Twangfest web site. Ok, that's it. Hope to see you at a gig soon. If you are a band that wants to be mentioned in future notices, e-mail me baby! Love, Nancy THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE FOR THE MEMPHIS MUSICIANS TRYING TO MAKE A LIVING, PLEASE PAY THE COVER WITHOUT TOO MUCH BITCHING! Thanks (and guest list weezles, we don't mind letting you in for free, but please refrain from talking throughout the entire show!) HANG IT ON YOUR FRIDGE.... THERE IS NEW STUFF IN HERE. WE KNOW WHEN YOU DELETE, BECAUSE YOU DON'T SHOW UP AT THE GIGS!!!!!
