Michael Charles Band “After Midnight”, 11/13/22 Byron’s Bar, Pomeroy, IA
Tag: 2022
“Damn Right, I’ve Got The Blues” (Buddy Guy) Paul Nelson Trio 10/30/22 Byron’s Bar Pomeroy, Iowa
Paul Nelson: Guitar, Joey Pafumi: Drums, Lars Chappell: bass, vocals
Photos: Tom Brandt
Video: Steve Ross
This show won’t be appearing in the Archive until it receives some post production treatment, but here’s a little number from the third set to tide you over:
“Death Don’t Have No Mercy” Bruce Katz Band 10/15/22 Byron’s Bar
The Bruce Katz Band played a song just for me last night at Byron’s Bar in Pomeroy, Iowa.
The thing is: they’d never played the song before and initially declined my request for it but Aaron Lieberman (guitar, vocals) said he knew the song (by Rev. Gary Davis), and when I told them why I’d like to hear it, which was a death in the family earlier that day, they pulled a rabbit out of their hat and produced this track, completely unrehearsed:
My Dad was always a little mystified by my passion for music, and he is no longer around for yet another explanation from me, but the reason for that passion is contained here. Music is medicine.
Much thanks to
Bruce Katz, keyboards
Aaron Lieberman, guitar, vocals
Liviu Pop, drums
Recap: Brothers Burn Mountain Live At Byron’s Bar, Pomeroy, IA 10/2/22
This duo, Ryan and brother Jesse Demody, killed it at Byron’s last night.
We got some video:
Click Here For The Whole Show:
Brothers Burn Mountain “I Rise Up” 11/26/21
Brothers Burn Mountain are returning to Pomeroy next Sunday, October 2 (2022)
Here’s the set closer from Set 3 last time they were there.
The percussion at the end is the brothers drumming on everything in the place.
Mike Younger Set Opener “Ragtime Angel” 9/17/22 Byron’s Bar
Cousin Curtiss Duo “One More Saturday Night” 9/8/22 Byron’s Bar
It isn’t particularly unusual for a band at Byron’s to cover a Grateful Dead song. The Cousin Curtiss Duo did a real nice job on this “One More Saturday Night”. Due to a small amount of confusion, we arrived at the conclusion of the show but still caught this one. We didn’t have time to check our levels and to position the mics; this was from the front of our table very close to the band.
Deeper Dive: Rod Picott “Your Father’s Tattoo” 7/31/22 Byron’s Bar
Our upload to Archive.org doesn’t include this interesting introduction to this powerful song:
Dirk Quinn “No Puppet” 8/19/22 Lake Avenue Lounge, Storm Lake
Dirk Quinn Band
“No Puppet”
8/19/22
Lake Avenue Lounge, Storm Lake, Iowa- annual Wood, Wine And Blues event.
Satchell Schwartz – Drums, Rory Flynn – Bass, Cody Munson – Keyboard, Dirk Quinn – Guitar
Chad Elliott, 8/6/22, Mural Reveal And Concert, Spencer, Ia Public Library
Chad Elliott was commissioned by Spencer Public Library to produce this five panel mural, made possible by The American Rescue Plan: Humanities Grants for Libraries. Here’s video of the reveal and audio of the concert.
Amanda Fish Band 7/9/22 Byron’s Bar 10 Minute Snack Fill “Voodoo Chile”
So this happened. The Amanda Fish Band played at the annual street dance that Byron’s sponsors for Pomeroy homecoming. Pomeroy should be grateful (but they’re not). Late in the band’s second set, Amanda took a ten minute break to feed her eight week old son and Glen James started into a ten minute drum solo requested by the audience, when Bob Pace joined him with this little Hendrix ditty:
Dave Zollo & The Body Electric, Okoboji Store, Okoboji, IA 6/30/22
Well, that was odd. Earlier in the week, David Zollo posted on his Facebook page “we will be at the Okoboji Store Thursday”. So we went. It seemed like nobody else did.
Apparently, the Okoboji Store is primarily a restaurant with a lower level bar and near the bar there’s a stage with a couple of tables nearby.
The Hyper-Capable Staff virtually insisted that we make reservations at either the restaurant or the bar, so we did that, but subsequently discovered that if you were ONLY going to listen to the band, you didn’t need a reservation, and you could just sit at one of the tables, which we did. They cancelled the reservation.
It seemed as if nobody ever goes there just to listen to the band.
But the table next to us filled up with some talkers right about the time things got underway, and it took our Intrepid Taper about five songs to decide to relocate his mics to the conduit running up the side of a tree, and that pretty much took care of those guys, who moved as soon as Intrepid Taper took the trouble to make that tricky relocation in the middle of a song.
So we got the sound the way we like it at the sixth track “New Man Blues”.
At the end of the songs there was some scattered applause from the diners and the bar patrons, but it was sparse enough that Zollo could thank individual tables.
People strolled by on a nearby sidewalk and occasionally bobbed their heads like they’d heard something catchy. And kept walking; nobody came up close around the stage.
We virtually had one of the best bands in Iowa to ourselves.
Okoboji is a funny place-they’ll pay $50 to see Night Ranger but negative nothing for a really hot band that probably spent the entire night hoping for some synergy with crowd.
The Okoboji Store has valet parking for big boats though. Really big boats.
