“The name of the new album is American Beauty, and it has some of the first things I’ve written, and that we’ve performed as a band, that in my opinion are genuinely beautiful.” – Jerry Garcia, October 1970
American Beauty is also a Grateful Dead tribute band from Arizona, and they will be performing live Friday December 30th…only at the fabulous Flagstaff Brewing Company!
Gravy began as a Wednesday night jam session. Just for fun the guys would listen to all the country classics on old vinyl and would learn the hits of traditional artists writing tunes all along the way. Gravy has played such great events as the Redneck Olympics and The Demolition Derby. You will only find these guys in the dumpiest of dives in Arizona and Colorado, pulling 300 plus fans to their local shows. Gravy won best album in 2005 and best band in 2006 in their hometown, Flagstaff, AZ. Since the release of their first two CD’s, the band has been on something of a hiatus only engaging audiences a couple times a year when the guys can get together. Gravy gigs are special events because they are rare. Don’t miss a chance to catch ’em if you can.
Local rockers The Blenders take the stage this Friday night with special guests TJ Muddy Cox. Only at the fabulous Flagstaff Brewing Company.
If you can picture a man in black jeans and sunglasses riding his motorcycle into the sunset with his dog and guitar strapped to his back, you can picture this soft-on-the-inside-scarred-on-the-cheeks singer-songwriter from Phoenix, Arizona.
Most recently hailing from Flagstaff, where he turned his childhood talent into solid gold skill and weird experiential repertoire, Leavy directs groups of musicians with a wicked laugh, drill sergeant focus, and no-shirk, hands-on mastery. This well-suits the wide-ranging compositions he writes for an eclectic folk arrangement…and all for the sake of love songs.
If you get to know Leavy personally, what may come to mind are the lyrics of Belle and Sebastian: “we know you are soft cause we’ve all seen you dancin,’ / we know you are hard cause we’ve all seen you drinkin.”
If you get to know him through his music, you see this way of being translates into his own work:
“When the girls got the snow up her nose she’s ready to go puttin on that one woman show/
We all look back look back eyes front eyes front, heart attack she’s on the run./
I can see the pain in her eyes cause I’m the only one not seeing the top of her head/
Never been squeezed by those thighs cause I’ve never taken them to bed.”-One Woman Show
“How did that pistol get under your bed?/
How did that girl crawl into your head?/
How did that trigger wrap round your finger?/
Why does the blood on the concrete still linger?”-$30 Pistol
Leavy’s gritty, honest lyrical writing explores the complexities and contradictions of his relationship with the world, guided by haunting, melodic, and sometimes delightfully shuffling instrumentation. If you’re lucky enough to see him play in person, you might catch Tim hammering and howling on an upright piano with his new sly bass and sax ensemble on the back of a cow trailer in downtown Flagstaff.
If you can only buy his album from afar, you’ll find a rich, moody, bluesy, sexy, love-and-loss inspired take on sound with the lyrical fluidity of Tom Waits and bursting-seam energy of the Black Keys.
Tim’s ultimate goal is to play music that makes you feel, whether you love it or hate it, to write and collaborate on strange arrangements forever, to laugh at least as much as he yells, and ride across the country with his dog in a sidecar and a guitar strapped to his back. Then retire to a porch in the south.
Lucky Lenny plays home-grown Americana this Sunday afternoon. Only at the fabulous Flagstaff Brewing Company.
Next Friday the 13th local rocker and crooner Jay Meyer takes the stage with special guests Proud Mother. Only at the fabulous Flagstaff Brewing Company.
Saturday January 14th singer-songwriters Cara Alboucq and Brian White take the stage for an intimate night of original American music. Only at the fabulous Flagstaff Brewing Company.
A lifelong musician, Sutton James Papanikolas has recently embarked on his first official solo endeavor. The San Diego Music Award-nominated singer/songwriter recently relocated from the sunny beaches of San Diego to the eclectic and scenic mountain town of Flagstaff, Arizona. SJP — known for fronting groups including Shaggin Wagon, Help I’m Alive, and most recently, Neighbors To The North — is a lover of all periods and styles of music. Even though his most recent efforts fit quite nicely within the indie-folk/alt-country genres, the spirit of rock n’ roll will always be alive and well in his songwriting, as well as his engagingly energetic live shows
