| Date: | May 21, 2022 |
| Time: | 4:00 - 8:00 PM |
| Venue: | Rising Silo Farm Brewery |
| Organizations: | Chickenwings and Gravy, The Billy Crawford Band |
| Description: |
Rising Silo Farm Brewery hosts The Billy Crawford Band CD Release & 20th Anniversary Party on Saturday, May 21, 2022. Event Schedule: • 4:00 PM: Opening Set from Chickenwings and Gravy • 5:00 PM: The Billy Crawford Band Performs The world-famous Billy Crawford Band will be celebrating the release of another CD, and the 20th anniversary of the band. New River Valley favorites, Chickenwings & Gravy will play an opening set. Billy Crawford was raised playing bass in church, then gaining an early hard-rock pedigree on electric guitar. But for the past three decades, he has turned his six-string action toward the blues. Now playing with his band, The Billy Crawford Band, he performs blues rock across the region. Blues guitar might be associated with Mississippi, Texas and Chicago, but a man of the mid-South has something to say about that. The city of Bristol, smack on the Tennessee / Virginia border, claims itself as the birthplace of country music. But one of its native sons is making a huge blues noise. The common denominator in all of this is Billy Crawford – raised playing bass in church, then gaining an early hard-rock pedigree on electric guitar. But for the past three decades, he has turned his six-string action toward the blues. For much of the 1990s, audiences around the world heard Crawford’s intense work with blues-rocker Deborah Coleman. He gave up the road in 2002, when his wife gave birth to their son. Turns out, son Tyler is a little guitar hotshot, too. But his daddy still has something to say. His Bristol-based Billy Crawford Band includes some of that region’s finest blues men. The fire is still burning blue from Crawford’s Guitar, as he rips through blues, ballads, rock, surf – even New Orleans-style. Underpinning it all is a band with plenty of energy and mastery of dynamics. Links: • http://www.thebillycrawfordband.com/ • https://www.facebook.com/TheBillyCrawfordBand Bill, Rich and Tom are an electric Chicago-style blues and Americana trio. Enjoy originals and classic blues in the styles of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Slim Harpo, and Chickenwings & Gravy. They are among the few ensembles performing the authentic Chicago blues in southwestern Virginia today. With their originals and covers, they are carrying the genre into the 21st Century. Link: https://www.facebook.com/Chickenwings-Gravy-166032006758394/ There is no cover charge. In addition, the New River Blues Society (NRBS) will be drawing winners and awarding prizes from their annual opportunity drawing at this event. For more information on the raffle, visit: https://www.newriverbluessociety.com/Opportunity_Drawing_Ticket/p6199593_21589818.aspx For more information on the Rising Silo Brewery, visit: http://www.risingsilobrewery.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/risingsilobrewery or call 540-750-0796. |