Flanfire

THIS, folks, is guitar gunslinger Kevin Hollingsworth on that Gibson and Austin legend Mandy Mercier (the ONLY woman whom I have ever heard sing Janis with as much passion as Janis) on guitar and vocals — all at Maria’s Taco X-Press.  The song is “Outlaw Man,” one of my favorites from Mandy, a woman who personally took care of more than her share of “outlaw men” (Blaze Foley, for one).

Why is Jodi Adair dancing on stage?  Maybe because her band this evening at the Amsterdam Cafe is Carl Ryals on drums, BB Morse on bass, and the Stratocaster Kings — Spencer Jarmon and Landis Armstrong — on twin lead guitar.  Landis had played a set with the lovely Paula Nelson (along with bassist Mark “Eppy” Epstein, who just flew in from Hawaii — guy’s credits include Johnny Winter and Jon Bonamassa), and for some ODD reason needed little armtwisting to stick around.  Gotta love Paula’s new songs, BTW.

The ABSOLUTELY AMAZING Jess Klein at Flipnotics and her AMAZING song, “Out on the Riverview,” perhaps the most beautiful, most powerful song she has ever written .. but then again, there are so many.  Wise birds and people will FLOCK to Momo’s Club Tuesdays in June to see this treasured jewel before her new album (produced by Mark Addison and Scrappy Jud Newcomb, who with Rob Hooper are her band these days at Momo’s) is released and she is flying all over the world again.