Internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter/pianist GRAYSON HUGH, with singer POLLY MESSER, will be appearing at The Towne Crier, 379 Main Street, Beacon NY on Friday, March 21, 2015.
Besides dipping into Grayson's vast repertoire of songs, Grayson and Polly will also be performing several songs from his new record “Save Your Love For Me”, which is set for release sometime this March.
Showtime is 8:30. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the link provided below. For further details call (845) 855-1300.
Frank Carillo & Eddie Seville will open the show with a short set.
Bursting on the music scene with his 1988 RCA release “Blind To Reason”, Grayson Hugh has been wowing audiences around the world ever since with his soulful singing, virtuoso piano playing and poetic lyrics. His songs have been called “a soul-rock stew, with a dash of blues and a pinch of country” (Stone Phillips, The Today Show) and his voice has been compared to soul legends Sam Cooke and Otis Redding. His piano playing has been called "a veritable cyclone of soul, drawing its energy from such diverse regions as the swampland funk of Professor Longhair, the testifying soul of Ray Charles, with the rhythms of African drumming and bluegrass thrown in the mix." - Benny Metten, Ctrl. Alt. Country, August, 2010.
Singer Polly Messer is a former member of the popular western swing band Eight To The Bar and the rockabilly band Eugene Chrysler.
After three decades of hits in radio and in Oscar-winning films (Thelma & Louise”, “Fried Green Tomatoes”) Grayson Hugh has a new record called “Save Your Love For Me”. It’s a collection of 13 new songs by Grayson, written in a roots country style, as well as his arrangement of the Hank Williams classic “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”. Besides Grayson and Polly, this album features some of the top names in roots music: 5 time Grammy winner Cindy Cashdollar on dobro and lap steel guitar, acoustic bassist Tony Garnier (long time member of Bob Dylan’s band), Pete Kennedy on guitar, mandolin and banjo (The Kennedys, Nanci Griffith, Emmylou Harris), and Gary Oleyar on fiddle and guitar, who has toured and recorded Jim Messina, with Marty Stuart, Alan Jackson, Patrica Yearwood) and drummer Tyger MacNeal has played with Grayson, blues legend Johnny Winter, Jose Feliciano and The Average White Band.
“In a world where music is often a brittle artificiality, the music he makes is hard and strong, convicted and convincing. And true. Most of all, true. It's there in the gritty lament of his voice, in the roughhouse eloquence of his piano, and the atmospheric poetry of his words. And his lyrics! If you love words, if you’re one of those people for whom heaven is a rainy day and a good book, then know this: Hugh doesn’t write words — he writes pictures. He has that thing Sam Cooke and Ray Charles had, that thing you still hear sometimes in Bruce Springsteen, that lonely, train whistle in the dark thing, that yearning, keening thing that gets right to the heart of what it means to be alive, what it means to be a human being.”
- Leonard Pitts Jr., Miami Herald, March 8, 2010, Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
$20 In Advance / $25 At The Door