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1635 SE 7th Ave
Portland, OR 97214
503.234.BEER
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Mon: 3 - 10:30 pm
Tue - Thu: 3 pm - 1 am
Fri: 3 pm - 2:30 am
Sat: 6:30 pm - 2:30 am
Sun: closed
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Jon & Jennifer Wallace
"...one of the best roots-rock/ Americana rooms in the city, a place where you can hear the rockabilly of Cave Catt Sammy one night and hot jazz from the Kung Pao Chickens the next."
--John Foyston,
The Oregonian
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Live Music Calendar
Nominal cover charge. Most shows start at 9:30 pm; please call to confirm.
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March 2010
March 2010
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Tue 9th – Happy Hour Show 6-8pm – Keeter Stuart band (country) $2
9:30pm - Dover Weinberg Quartet
9:30pm - Dover Weinberg Quartet
All-star blues/eclectic rhythm 'n' blues/swing. $2, 9:30 pm - midnight
Wed 10th – HAPPY HOUR SHOW
Wed 10th – HAPPY HOUR SHOW
6-8pm - Chris Miller Band - $2
9:30pm - Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam - $2
Usually featuring Marco Savo on bass and Jimi Bott or Jeff Strawbridge on drums. 9:30-12:30
Thu 11th – HAPPY HOUR
Thu 11th – HAPPY HOUR
6 - 8 pm - Pete Krebs & The Portland Playboys ('30s jazz/country-western 3-piece)
Hailing from rainy Portland, Oregon, the Pete Krebs Trio can be found performing somewhere around town almost every night of the week-- clubs, pubs, restaurants, old man bars and gas stations-- playing their own music, a mix of hillbilly swing, gypsy jazz and tunes from the Great American Songbook. Led by guitarist and vocalist Pete Krebs, the Trio features Keith Brush on upright bass and David Langenes on guitar. Formed in 2006, the Trio has appeared nationally as well as internationally and has been featured on Oregon Public Broadcasting's 'Art Beat', KMHD's 'Home Grown Live' and both the Portland and Cathedral Park Jazz Festivals and the PDX Lindy Exchange. The band's sound is timeless, equal parts Texas roadhouse, Paris dive bar and New York's sonic landscape. A regional favorite of the northwest swing dance community, the Trio often find themselves shaking the shack for dancers and listeners alike. As they like to say, it's "music for your drinking, dining and dancing pleasure." C'mon out to a show and say howdy, we'd love to see you there!
9:30pm – Ron Rodgers (L.A.) - (country)
ABOUT RON ROGERS and the WAILING WIND
From deep in the heart of Texas, by way of Los Angeles, and now Portland, Oregon, singer/songwriter/guitarist Ron Rogers has amassed a gritty songbook of original timeless stories about restless highways, shady characters, broken hearts and shattered dreams – all in a mix that defies easy categorization. Call it American roots, call it rock, call it alt-country, call it swampy country blues, call it what you will Rogers is an honest and refreshing new voice in the vibrant Portland music scene.
Rogers was raised in Ft. Worth, Texas, and was musically schooled in the road houses of the Lone Star State. He was based out of Austin for many years before heading to Los Angeles, where he served as a staff songwriter for Island Records for two years and worked for Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss at A&M Studios for another nine before relocating to Portland in 2004. In 2007 he co-wrote a song with Joe New and bluegrass legend Del McCoury, “40 Acres and a Fool,” that was released on McCoury’s CD, Moneyland. He is also a mixed media artist and his Shrines to Dead Musicians hang in galleries in Portland and around the US. He was commissioned in 2007 and 2008 to produce the covers of the Oregonian A&E Waterfront Blues Festival guides.
For his new band, the Wailing Wind, Rogers has corralled some of Portland’s best musicians – Dave Grafe on pedal steel guitar, Don Campbell on bass and vocals, and drummer Chris Bond laying down the beat. Each is a musical journeyman in his own right whose style fits seamlessly with Rogers’ music. The band’s debut recording project, “Country and Eastern,” drops in Spring 2010.
Blue Moon Hwy will open.
Fri 12th – Deke Dickerson / Chris Olson’s Hi-Flyers (rockabilly)
Deke's got a brand new CD, "KING OF THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!" This new CD will drop in the stores and be available on the web very soon. For now, Deke's been performing some of the new songs at his shows, including the HIT "Misshapen Hillbilly Gal", "Deep River","Bomb Shelter For My Heart", and the twin guitar instrumental "Double-Clutchin'" featuring Crazy Joe Tritschler!
9:30pm – Ron Rodgers (L.A.) - (country)
ABOUT RON ROGERS and the WAILING WIND
From deep in the heart of Texas, by way of Los Angeles, and now Portland, Oregon, singer/songwriter/guitarist Ron Rogers has amassed a gritty songbook of original timeless stories about restless highways, shady characters, broken hearts and shattered dreams – all in a mix that defies easy categorization. Call it American roots, call it rock, call it alt-country, call it swampy country blues, call it what you will Rogers is an honest and refreshing new voice in the vibrant Portland music scene.
Rogers was raised in Ft. Worth, Texas, and was musically schooled in the road houses of the Lone Star State. He was based out of Austin for many years before heading to Los Angeles, where he served as a staff songwriter for Island Records for two years and worked for Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss at A&M Studios for another nine before relocating to Portland in 2004. In 2007 he co-wrote a song with Joe New and bluegrass legend Del McCoury, “40 Acres and a Fool,” that was released on McCoury’s CD, Moneyland. He is also a mixed media artist and his Shrines to Dead Musicians hang in galleries in Portland and around the US. He was commissioned in 2007 and 2008 to produce the covers of the Oregonian A&E Waterfront Blues Festival guides.
For his new band, the Wailing Wind, Rogers has corralled some of Portland’s best musicians – Dave Grafe on pedal steel guitar, Don Campbell on bass and vocals, and drummer Chris Bond laying down the beat. Each is a musical journeyman in his own right whose style fits seamlessly with Rogers’ music. The band’s debut recording project, “Country and Eastern,” drops in Spring 2010.
Blue Moon Hwy will open.
Fri 12th – Deke Dickerson / Chris Olson’s Hi-Flyers (rockabilly)
Deke's got a brand new CD, "KING OF THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!" This new CD will drop in the stores and be available on the web very soon. For now, Deke's been performing some of the new songs at his shows, including the HIT "Misshapen Hillbilly Gal", "Deep River","Bomb Shelter For My Heart", and the twin guitar instrumental "Double-Clutchin'" featuring Crazy Joe Tritschler!
JUST OUT-- Deke has written not one, not two, but THREE giant new box set books for Bear Family Records. Two of the Box Sets are on MERLE HAGGARD, covering his Capitol Years from 1969 - 1976. Deke has written two books on Merle for these sets, over 250 pages of writing in all, and even got to interview Merle Haggard himself for over 5 hours! The third box set is on Merle's ex-wife and singer BONNIE OWENS, who had a long recording career on her own.
If you've got XM Radio, check out THE THEME TIME RADIO HOUR in which Bob Dylan hosts an hour of his favorite music based on themes like "luck" and "laughter." Deke has been hired to not only supply guitar instrumental music for the interludes, but has also been interviewed for the show and can be heard giving at least one nugget of knowledge most every show. Deke and Bob Dylan-- who'd a thunk it? But Dylan is a diehard rockabilly fan, if you know anything about him, so it makes perfect sense.
DEKE THE JOURNALIST! Deke now has a bi-monthly column in Guitar Player magazine called "Deke the Guitar Geek." The latest issue (with Derek Trucks on the cover) has Deke's 2nd column, on the ultra-rare Stratosphere Guitar made in Springfield, MO in the 1950s.
Sat 13th – Deke Dickerson (see above description) / Marshall Scott Warner (rockabilly from Seattle)
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Mon 15th – Big “D” Jamboree / 2 Country, Rockabilly or American Roots Bands / Dance lesson included at 8:30 pm / $3
Tue 16th – Happy Hour Show
Tue 16th – Happy Hour Show
6 – 8 pm - Keeter Stuart Band (country) $2
9:30 pm - Dover Weinberg Quartet
9:30 pm - Dover Weinberg Quartet
All-star blues/eclectic rhythm 'n' blues/swing. $2, 9:30 pm - midnight
Wed 17th – HAPPY HOUR SHOW
Wed 17th – HAPPY HOUR SHOW
6 - 8pm - Chris Miller Band - $2
9:30 pm - Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam - $2
Usually featuring Marco Savo on bass and Jimi Bott or Jeff Strawbridge on drums. 9:30 - 12:30
Thu 18th – HAPPY HOUR
Thu 18th – HAPPY HOUR
6 - 8 pm - Pete Krebs & The Portland Playboys ('30s jazz/country-western 3-piece)
Hailing from rainy Portland, Oregon, the Pete Krebs Trio can be found performing somewhere around town almost every night of the week-- clubs, pubs, restaurants, old man bars and gas stations-- playing their own music, a mix of hillbilly swing, gypsy jazz and tunes from the Great American Songbook. Led by guitarist and vocalist Pete Krebs, the Trio features Keith Brush on upright bass and David Langenes on guitar. Formed in 2006, the Trio has appeared nationally as well as internationally and has been featured on Oregon Public Broadcasting's 'Art Beat', KMHD's 'Home Grown Live' and both the Portland and Cathedral Park Jazz Festivals and the PDX Lindy Exchange. The band's sound is timeless, equal parts Texas roadhouse, Paris dive bar and New York's sonic landscape. A regional favorite of the northwest swing dance community, the Trio often find themselves shaking the shack for dancers and listeners alike. As they like to say, it's "music for your drinking, dining and dancing pleasure." C'mon out to a show and say howdy, we'd love to see you there!
9:30 pm – Jim Wallace's Housecats (jump swing blues)
Fri 19th – HAPPY HOUR SHOW
9:30 pm – Jim Wallace's Housecats (jump swing blues)
Fri 19th – HAPPY HOUR SHOW
6 - 8 pm Allison Rice Band (country)
9:30pm - Becki Sue & Her Big Rockin’ Daddies (Olympia, WA; blues)
Texas-style blues around. Becki Sue’s powerful vocals recall those of Angela Strehli. The Daddies are a tight four-piece combo capable of sounding larger, thanks to Jim King’s double duty on sax and harmonica.
Sat 20th – John Foyston Tribute:
Music Editor of the Oregonian is retiring...This night, many of our areas top musicians will gather to pay tribute to Foyston's longterm support of the Portland music scene.
Featuring: Jon Koonce
9:30pm - Becki Sue & Her Big Rockin’ Daddies (Olympia, WA; blues)
Texas-style blues around. Becki Sue’s powerful vocals recall those of Angela Strehli. The Daddies are a tight four-piece combo capable of sounding larger, thanks to Jim King’s double duty on sax and harmonica.
Sat 20th – John Foyston Tribute:
Music Editor of the Oregonian is retiring...This night, many of our areas top musicians will gather to pay tribute to Foyston's longterm support of the Portland music scene.
Featuring: Jon Koonce
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Sun 21st – Candye Kane - $10 - 8pm
"Superhero" is the name of Candyes' original song and the title of her latest CD for Los Angeles based label, Delta Groove records. It is also an apt description of the jump blues singer and songwriter from East Los Angeles who has earned this moniker the hard way. Nominated for three 2010 National Blues Foundation Awards blues.org for BB King Entertainer of the Year, Best Blues Contemporary CD and Best Contemporary Blues Female (the highest honor for blues artists) and beating down pancreatic cancer in the last two years, Kane is one tough cookie. She has performed worldwide for presidents and movie stars but her path to success was not always glamorous or easy.
"Superhero" is the name of Candyes' original song and the title of her latest CD for Los Angeles based label, Delta Groove records. It is also an apt description of the jump blues singer and songwriter from East Los Angeles who has earned this moniker the hard way. Nominated for three 2010 National Blues Foundation Awards blues.org for BB King Entertainer of the Year, Best Blues Contemporary CD and Best Contemporary Blues Female (the highest honor for blues artists) and beating down pancreatic cancer in the last two years, Kane is one tough cookie. She has performed worldwide for presidents and movie stars but her path to success was not always glamorous or easy.
Raised in a dysfunctional, blue-collar family, Candye became a teenage mother, a pin-up cover girl and a punk rock, hillbilly and blues-belting anarchist by the time she was just 21 years old. Ten CDs, six record labels, millions of international road miles and countless awards later, Miss Kane has proven to be a true survivor as she scrambled her way to the top of the roots music heap, creating a world renowned reputation that has spanned two decades.
A colorful mixture of the traditional and the eclectic, Kane cut her musical teeth in the early '80s onstage with Hollywood musicians and friends Social Distortion, Dwight Yoakum, Dave Alvin, The Blasters, X, Fear, and Los Lobos, to name just a few. While raising two sons, this role model for the disenfranchised championed large-sized women, fought for the equal rights of sex workers and the GLBT community and inspired music lovers everywhere. Her fans are a mixture of true outsiders: bikers, blues fans, punk rockers, drag queens, fat girls, queers, burlesque dancers, porn fans, sex workers, rockabilly and swing dancers, grey-haired hippies, sex-positive feminists and everyday folk of all ages, flock to see Candye and hear her musical messages of love, hope and empowerment.
Kane's live shows are the stuff of legend. She honors the bold blues women of the past with both feet firmly planted in the present. She belts - growls - shouts - croons and moans from a lifetime of suffering and overcoming obstacles. She uses music as therapy and often writes and chooses material with positive affirmations that leave the audience feeling healed and exhilarated. A show that is part humor, revival meeting and sexuality celebration, she'll deliver a barrelhouse-tongue-in-cheek blues tune or a gospel ballad like Jesus and Mohammed, encouraging audiences to leave behind religious intolerance. She'll slay the crowd with her balls-out rendition of "Whole Lotta Love" or glorify the virtues of zaftig women with 200 pounds of fun. She often says she is a "fat black drag queen trapped in a white woman's body" and she dresses the part. Bedecked in bright-colored feathers, sequins and rhinestones, Kane's performance is Mississippi by way of Las Vegas with a quick stopover in San Francisco.
Mon 22nd – Big “D” Jamboree / 2 Country, Rockabilly or American Roots Bands / Dance lesson included at 8:30 pm / $3
Tue 23rd – Happy Hour Show
Tue 23rd – Happy Hour Show
6 – 8pm - Keeter Stuart Band (country) $2
9:30 pm - Dover Weinberg Quartet
9:30 pm - Dover Weinberg Quartet
All-star blues/eclectic rhythm 'n' blues/swing. $2, 9:30 pm - midnight
Wed 24th – HAPPY HOUR SHOW
Wed 24th – HAPPY HOUR SHOW
6 - 8 pm - Chris Miller Band - $2
9:30 pm - Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam - $2
Usually featuring Marco Savo on bass and Jimi Bott or Jeff Strawbridge on drums. 9:30-12:30
Thu 25th – HAPPY HOUR
Thu 25th – HAPPY HOUR
6 - 8 pm - Pete Krebs & The Portland Playboys ('30s jazz/country-western 3-piece)
Hailing from rainy Portland, Oregon, the Pete Krebs Trio can be found performing somewhere around town almost every night of the week-- clubs, pubs, restaurants, old man bars and gas stations-- playing their own music, a mix of hillbilly swing, gypsy jazz and tunes from the Great American Songbook. Led by guitarist and vocalist Pete Krebs, the Trio features Keith Brush on upright bass and David Langenes on guitar. Formed in 2006, the Trio has appeared nationally as well as internationally and has been featured on Oregon Public Broadcasting's 'Art Beat', KMHD's 'Home Grown Live' and both the Portland and Cathedral Park Jazz Festivals and the PDX Lindy Exchange. The band's sound is timeless, equal parts Texas roadhouse, Paris dive bar and New York's sonic landscape. A regional favorite of the northwest swing dance community, the Trio often find themselves shaking the shack for dancers and listeners alike. As they like to say, it's "music for your drinking, dining and dancing pleasure." C'mon out to a show and say howdy, we'd love to see you there!
9:30 pm - Jim Wallace's Housecats (Jump Swing Blues)
Fri 26th – Oblivion Seekers / Americans
Don't miss this 20th anniversary of one of Portland's longest roots rock n' roll bands. Seekers mix elements of X and The Cramps and New Wave to create a dark sounding rock n' roll style of their own.
Sat 27th – Give Me Some Lovin’ (Blues Brothers tribute)
Featuring the vocals of Kevin Selfe.
9:30 pm - Jim Wallace's Housecats (Jump Swing Blues)
Fri 26th – Oblivion Seekers / Americans
Don't miss this 20th anniversary of one of Portland's longest roots rock n' roll bands. Seekers mix elements of X and The Cramps and New Wave to create a dark sounding rock n' roll style of their own.
Sat 27th – Give Me Some Lovin’ (Blues Brothers tribute)
Featuring the vocals of Kevin Selfe.
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Mon 29th – Big “D” Jamboree / 2 Country, Rockabilly or American Roots Bands / Dance lesson included at 8:30pm / $3
Tue 30th – Happy Hour Show
Tue 30th – Happy Hour Show
6 – 8 pm - Keeter Stuart Band (country) $2
9:30 pm - Dover Weinberg Quartet
9:30 pm - Dover Weinberg Quartet
All-star blues/eclectic rhythm 'n' blues/swing. $2, 9:30 pm - midnight
Wed 31st – HAPPY HOUR SHOW
Wed 31st – HAPPY HOUR SHOW
6 - 8 pm - Chris Miller Band - $2
9:30 pm - Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam - $2
Usually featuring Marco Savo on bass and Jimi Bott or Jeff Strawbridge on drums. 9:30-12:30
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April 2010
April 2010
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Thu 1st – HAPPY HOUR
6 - 8 pm - Pete Krebs & The Portland Playboys ('30s jazz/country-western 3-piece)
Hailing from rainy Portland, Oregon, the Pete Krebs Trio can be found performing somewhere around town almost every night of the week-- clubs, pubs, restaurants, old man bars and gas stations-- playing their own music, a mix of hillbilly swing, gypsy jazz and tunes from the Great American Songbook. Led by guitarist and vocalist Pete Krebs, the Trio features Keith Brush on upright bass and David Langenes on guitar. Formed in 2006, the Trio has appeared nationally as well as internationally and has been featured on Oregon Public Broadcasting's 'Art Beat', KMHD's 'Home Grown Live' and both the Portland and Cathedral Park Jazz Festivals and the PDX Lindy Exchange. The band's sound is timeless, equal parts Texas roadhouse, Paris dive bar and New York's sonic landscape. A regional favorite of the northwest swing dance community, the Trio often find themselves shaking the shack for dancers and listeners alike. As they like to say, it's "music for your drinking, dining and dancing pleasure." C'mon out to a show and say howdy, we'd love to see you there!
9:30 pm - TBA
Fri 2nd – DK Stewart & the Soul Survivor Horns
9:30 pm - TBA
Fri 2nd – DK Stewart & the Soul Survivor Horns
This all-star Portland quartet (plus horns) infuses classic cuts, obscure nuggets and DK Stewart originals with a fresh take on the blues, New Orleans funk and R&B.
Stewart, whose New Orleans, boogie-woogie piano style has been a driving force behind such Northwest blues giants as Robert Cray, Paul deLay and Curtis Salgado, has for the past several years been tearing up major festival stages with his own group, the DK Stewart Band. Backed by former Paul deLay Band bassist Don Campbell, longtime deLay guitarist Peter Dammann, and drummer Cory Burden, Stewart serves up swinging, uptempo jump blues by Nat Cole, Charles Brown and T-Bone Walker; hard-grooving New Orleans funk by Professor Longhair, Clifton Chenier and the Meters; slashing Chicago blues by Howlin’ Wolf and Magic Sam; and his own soulful, compelling originals.
Stewart has performed with such blues legends as Big Walter Horton, S.P. Leary, Hubert Sumlin, Sunnyland Slim, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, James Cotton, Albert Collins, George "Harmonica" Smith, Joe Louis Walker, and Roomful of Blues, and has appeared on bills with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Junior Walker, Clifton Chenier, Ray Charles, Paul Butterfield, and BB King. Stewart’s keyboard virtuosity can be heard on recordings by Robert Cray, Paul deLay, Curtis Salgado, Lloyd Jones, and on his own three solo projects, including the band’s latest release, IN THE HOUSE.
The band frequently teams up with the Soul Survivor Horns, featuring British sax legend Chris Mercer and NW all-star trumpeter Joe McCarthy.
Sat 3rd – Midnight Serenaders ('30s jazz, swing)
Riding the crest of the neo-traditional jazz craze presently occurring on the West Coast, the MIDNIGHT SERENADERS are a six-piece swing band playing regularly to enthusiastic audiences throughout the Pacific Northwest. Performing vintage pop, hot jazz, and Hawaiian instrumentals, as well as an expanding collection of Jazz Age-sounding original songs, these six veteran musicians strive to share their love for the music of the 1920s, '30s and '40s. With an exciting stage show, tight musical arrangements, and outstanding solo and harmony vocals, MIDNIGHT SERENADERS fans include nostalgists, swing dancers, melody junkies, retro-clothing hounds, and folks who simply appreciate good quality, jubilant music.
Riding the crest of the neo-traditional jazz craze presently occurring on the West Coast, the MIDNIGHT SERENADERS are a six-piece swing band playing regularly to enthusiastic audiences throughout the Pacific Northwest. Performing vintage pop, hot jazz, and Hawaiian instrumentals, as well as an expanding collection of Jazz Age-sounding original songs, these six veteran musicians strive to share their love for the music of the 1920s, '30s and '40s. With an exciting stage show, tight musical arrangements, and outstanding solo and harmony vocals, MIDNIGHT SERENADERS fans include nostalgists, swing dancers, melody junkies, retro-clothing hounds, and folks who simply appreciate good quality, jubilant music.
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