Dustin Arbuckle & Damnations featuring Matt Woods, Set Opener 1/15/23 “Woman Down In Arkansas”
Tag: Mark Gerking
Michael Charles Band “After Midnight”, 11/13/22 Byron’s Bar, Pomeroy, IA
“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:
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Mike Younger Set Opener “Ragtime Angel” 9/17/22 Byron’s Bar
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:
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:
“Small Photograph”, Mark Stuart, Byron’s Bar, 6/24/22
From the album “Songs From A Corner Stage”
Mark Stuart of Nashville, TN (not the Christian singer by the same name) turned in a great night at Byron’s Bar, Pomeroy, Ia on 6/24/22. We’ll have the full performance up at Archive in due time, but one song in particular caught my attention because it sounded very much like the Amazing Rhythm Aces. Mark confirmed to me that he was a Russell Smith fan, and I think that’s pretty obvious to anyone else who listens to the Aces (such as myself).
Poster by Mark Gerking, thanks to Tom Brandt for the photo (not the guitar the artist used in this number).
Union County Trio “Losing My Religion” (R.E.M. 1991) 5/15/22 Byron’s Bar
We’ve encountered a little backlog in our projects list, so it will take a while to get this full show up, but in the meantime, here’s a little sample of what you missed if you weren’t there (we mixed this to mono):
Claude Bourbon “Take It To Heart” Byron’s Bar, Pomeroy, IA 4/24/22
If you weren’t there, you didn’t see this………
Listen to full show here: Archive
Amelia White “Nowhere Man” 4/10/22 Byron’s Bar, Pomeroy, IA
We may not have an upload to Archive for this show-at least not until we have a further discussion with Amelia White about that (she has a trepidation about it).
In the meantime, here’s a little number she did that we just have to share. It’s atypical of the rest of the performance:
Eddie Turner “Hey Joe” 4/17/22 Byron’s Bar, Pomeroy, IA
Sorry for the shaky stuff and jumping around; didn’t realize it was going to be a fourteen minute video, and it’s missing a couple of intro minutes at that…….anyway, that’s a long time to try to hold something still without a tripod…..
