Years: 2016

While recording “The New Stumptown Rounders” in Sebastopol, CA he met Ed Neff, fiddle player for The Vern Williams Band, High Country and mandolin player for his own band ‘Blue And Lonesome’.  Neff soon became Riley’s mentor in bluegrass music and highly influenced his playing and singing.

While developing his own guitar style and singing, Hill met banjo player Isaac Cantor in 2011 and started the band ‘The Cherry Pickers’.  After some successful touring around Northern CA and Oregon and well received festival performances (Northwest String Summit 2014 and Grass Valley CBA Fathers Day Festival) Riley decided to put together some seasoned bluegrass vets and release his own album.

http://rileyhillguitar.com/

Born, raised and ruined in the big easy, Dean Martian takes the New Orleans traditional styles and merges them with the creative styles of his inner demons to bring you an original sound with comfortably familiar blues and jazz roots. Playing original songs reminiscent of the 40’s and 50’s, Dean tells his stories of love, death, epic happiness, and horrible loss. He has headlined venues such as world famous Tipitina’s, House of Blues New Orleans, House of Blues Chicago, The Howlin’ Wolf, and Jimmy’s Music Club. He has opened up for legendary acts such as The Specials, Dave Wakeling, Long Beach Dub Allstars, Chaka Kahn, Fishbone, Dr. John, Bell Biv DeVoe, Less Than Jake, and Reel Big Fish (to name a few).
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Dean has recorded and released 2 singles with Light Rail Studios: Los Marcianos Son De Marte (released 4/15/14) and Sad Sam Smith and other Tales of Woe (released 2/10/15). Dean Martian released his Light Rail Studios debut full length album, In Famous, in October of 2015.

www.deanmartian.com

With the release of his full length album, Carousel, Eric Long and The Soul and Bones Band restore a fresh attitude to a classic genre. Lush with catchy guitar hooks, addicting choruses, and naturally soulful vocals, the record hits the mark as a real deal classic rock album. Though the songs are diverse from one and other, there is a commonality that brings it all together much like a concept album. Most importantly, the record never loses sight of the emotional platform great songs are built from.

“This was my first experience working with Shaky Jake,a producer that I’ve known for years, working in a large studio setting where the sky was the limit as far as production goes. We had all the toys and we took our time with the album. I’ve been playing for rooms of people with an acoustic guitar, or onstage with various bands for years now; It’s my bread and butter, so having the chance to really experiment in a studio with a time frame that allowed us to play around with a lot of feels was a tremendous learning experience for me as a musician, and an artist. Normally I think of myself as a performance artist and with Carousel, I got to explore a whole other aspect of creating music” says Eric of the evolution of the recording process.

Now a California native, Eric reached back to his East Coast roots when assembling the diverse cast of musicians that appear on ‘Carousel.” The Soul and Bones Band has always been more of a studio incarnation than anything else. So when it was time to put it together, he worked with many of the upstanding musicians he had worked with growing up in York Pennsylvania, or through people he met down in Philly onstage or off. Working with members from bands like Killer Bangs, Cold Fronts, American Babies, and Ruby the Hatchet, the album became a culmination of high caliber musicianship all around.

As Eric himself puts it, “Carousel is a collection of songs that I played for years. These are songs that constantly evolved, and reshaped, and eventually with the help of a diverse group of musicians from my past, finally got recorded in a friendly environment in a warehouse in a pretty cutty part of Philadelphia with some of my favorite people in the world.”

ericlongofficial.com

Luke Erickson, a 17 year old Country/Rockabilly singer, songwriter and guitar player from Petaluma writes his own snappy originals.

luke941.wixsite.com

Eki Shola is a musical healer, composing music that allows listeners to relax and ease the daily stressors of life.  Her first album Final Beginning, released on August 20, 2016, mixes ambient piano, syncopated beats, unexpected effects, and jazz organ riffs, compelling listeners to engage with her music in the here and now.  As a musical memoir, Final Beginning unifies creative and pragmatic forces with the power of grief, personal challenges for healing, acceptance – and hope. Her creation is a mystical, funky, electro soul journey to which all can emotionally relate.  Final Beginning, defines Eki Shola as a messenger of inner awareness and reflects her gratitude to a higher and her fellow being.

Eki Shola grew up in a family of healers of both mind and body.  Her parents were multi-instrumentalists and her sibling uses his musical talents in his mental health practice. Eki Shola herself began classical piano lessons at the age of 5.  In college, she played vibes for the Cornell University Lab Ensemble (CULE) a jazz band; performing with jazz trumpeter Steve Turre and Dr. Donald Byrd under the direction of Dr. Karlton Hester of Hesterian Musicism.

Final Beginning draws on diverse and often unpredictable influences including Mary Lou Williams, Rachmaninoff, Robert Glasper, Go Go Penguins, Aphex Twin, Bonobo, Taylor McFerrin and Zero 7. “Music can be therapeutic on many levels,” says Eki Shola.  As a musician, Eki Shola knows the benefits of a creative outlet in developing and facilitating a more balanced lifestyle.  As a practicing physician, Eki Shola has witnessed how physical and emotional manifestations of stress, fatigue and spiritual disconnection can adversely impact the ability to live an enriched, purposeful and fulfilled life. She has played her songs at cardiovascular health presentations to illustrate the healing power of music in terms of stress reduction and its importance in relation to physical movement which is integral to one’s overall health.

Final Beginning reflects a journey triggered by grief and spurned by motivation for healing and spiritual growth. This musical venture concludes with the audible realization that life is about inner reflections and improvisational healing.

http://www.ekishola.com/

Karlyn DeSteno is a songwriter based somewhere between Oakland, New York, and Saint Paul.

www.karlyndesteno.com

“Jinx Jones and his trio serve up fine examples of American Music, all with Jinx playing the living hell out of the guitar.”
John Heidt, Vintage Guitar Magazine, June, 2007

“Magical’ rings as insufficient when looms the real article. Jinx proffers alacritous dexterity and excruciating elegance, integrating rockin’ with country with jazz with blues. May shame you into selling your own guitar.”
David Larson, Rockabilly Magazine, July, 2007

www.jinxjones.com

WHO-WHAT
Dave – vocals, guitar
Sean– vocals, harmonica
Ben – upright bass, guitar
Malcolm – vocals, drums, banjo, bass

DETAILS:
Can you dance to our music? Mostly
Can you drink to our music? Yes
Can you think to our music? No
Do we write our own songs? Yes
Do we play obscure awesome covers? Yes

www.dirtyredbarn.com