Name: HowellDivine + Jill Rogers & Crying Time (Record Release)
Start: 2023-01-27T20:00:00
End: 2023-01-27T00:00:00
Location: Ivy Room

ivy room presentsFRIDAY JANUARY 27TH----<h2>HOWELLDIVINE</h2><h2>JILL ROGERS &amp; CRYING TIME</h2>(record release)<h2>JOE RUT</h2>-----Doors 7:30pm / Show 8pm$15 Advance / $18 Door-----IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+ <h2>HOWELLDIVINE</h2><a href="https://www.howelldevine.com/" target="_blank">Website</a> / <a href="https://www.facebook.com/howelldevine/" target="_blank">Facebook</a>----Shack-Shaking Music"There is no blues band performing today as different as HowellDevine—nor as delightful."&nbsp;&nbsp;~&nbsp;Lee Hildebrand, Living Blues Magazine/SF ChronicleTriple threat talent, Joshua&nbsp;Howell&nbsp;(guitar, harmonica, vocals) and percussion savant, Pete&nbsp;Devine&nbsp;(drums, washboard), plus veteran upright bassist, Joe Kyle Jr. deftly mix Delta/Country Blues with wildly syncopated&nbsp;rhythms to create a rollicking present-day sound rooted in early blues.&nbsp;Their music stands in stark contrast to the typical blues heard in bars these days and would more likely be&nbsp;shaking&nbsp;the floors of a Southern juke joint some 70 years ago. <h2>JILL ROGERS &amp; CRYING TIME</h2><a href="https://www.cryingtimeband.com/" target="_blank">Website</a> / <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/2cWTjwfgjEFJJkuS7Yn4ln" target="_blank">Spotify</a> / <a href="https://www.facebook.com/cryingtime/" target="_blank">Facebook</a>----New album – Many Worlds Theory – CD Release Party! &nbsp;Oakland’s own Jill Rogers and Crying Time plays California honky-tonk – music that’s true to the roots of country, with a dash of the Golden State. Frontwoman Jill Rogers’s songs illuminate love at the edge of dissolution or look back with regret at something that might have been. She’s a singer’s singer with a 1974 voice and a story to tell. The band’s original songs sit pretty in a mix of tunes from Bob Wills to George Jones to Glen Campbell, with unexpected whistle stops in between. Myles Boisen brings an inventive and authentic take on country, rockabilly, and blues guitar, while Bay Area music scene veteran Tony Marcus's (Lost Weekend, Cheap Suit Serenaders) fiddle weaves through the songs. Drummer Tim Rowe is widely respected throughout the local scene (and not just for his non-instructional How to Play the Drums video series) and Russell Keil on bass holds down the rhythm with grace, style, and swing.&nbsp; “Jill Rogers delivers convincing, full-throated, but not faux-hillbilly, lead vocals...a great spin on the no-nonsense country of Bakersfield and pre-pop Nashville —in a tradition that includes Jimmie Rivers, Asleep at the Wheel, and others. Crying Time begs for a dance floor to accommodate your happy feet and a beer to catch your tears. - Derk Richardson (Oakland Magazine/KPFA)&nbsp; KALX radio says, “Country singing from Oakland standouts. Real musicians, not just stompers. Jill Rogers is an amazing singer. Just plain beautiful.” <h2>JOE RUT</h2><a href="https://joerut.com/" target="_blank">Website</a> / <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2EPeuJnFSqVG0efmZ54hCu" target="_blank">Spotify</a> / <a href="https://www.facebook.com/joerutmusic/" target="_blank">Facebook</a>----On his 6th album release, Stolen Tools &amp; Stereos, Oakland songwriter Joe Rut’s quirky sense of humor underpins a heartfelt, richly lyrical and subtly hallucinatory Americana/Alt-country tapestry. Special guests including mandolin great David Grisman (Jerry Garcia, Old and In The Way), pedal steel master Bobby Black (Commander Cody, Asleep at the Wheel), and Scott Amendola (Charlie Hunter, Nels Cline) augment Joe’s band as he drunk dials his friends at 3 AM Tuesday morning, sings an abandoned black-velvet Elvis painting back home to Tupelo, pictures all his earthly belongings for sale at a flea market after his death, and ponders the tragic mating rituals of porcupines. It is a deeply American music, although the border guards seem to have been bribed with psychedelics to look the other way. Much of the album was written in a year-long road trip, during which Joe travelled the main streets and backroads of California with his dog Potato in a converted Ford Econoline Van, writing songs daily in The Pretty Good Book, a 3-inch thick antique accounting ledger given to him by friends for the trip