Andy Kirmayer + Daphne Lee Martin + Tripeg Lobo presents: “The only girl I've ever loved Was born with roses in her eyes”: History Songs + Cornbred @ The Way Station

7pm- Andy Kirmayer
Genre: Singer/Songwriter/Rock/Country

Andy Kirmayer is a Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter. From orange traffic cones to downhearted former mermaids, his songs cover the externally eccentric as intricately as the internally peculiar. Much of Kirmayer’s work is humorous and tongue-in-cheek, but the occasional introspective and serious song can be expected. Rhythm guitar and sing-a-longs dominate the set. These traits and more have been seen across the Brooklyn music and open mic scene for the better part of a decade.
myspace.com/andykirmayer
 
8pm- Daphne Lee Martin
Genre: Songwriter/Electronic
For fans of: Bat for Lashes, Portishead, Aimee Mann

After a whirlwind affair with roots music, garnering her several songwriting and performance awards, including CT Music Awards' 2012 Country Artist of the Yearand Whalie Awards' Album of the Year, Daphne Lee Martin is back in force with a new collection of songs on her latest record, Moxie (Telegraph Recording Company). Since its release, Moxie has been featured on The Needle Drop, Rolling Stone contributor Eric Danton's Listen, Dammit, NPR's Where We Live, No Depression, WTNH's CT Style, The Day's Live Lunch Break, and Boston Dig, Surviving the Golden Age, as well as a number of other national blogs and zines. Moxie charted in the Top 200 CMJ weekly chart in March (with over 45 adds) and was included in Under the Radar's official SXSW Sampler followed by a national tour including SXSW. She is currently in the studio working on the follow-up record, Frost and preparing to tour again in the fall.

Boasting a new cast of characters in a deeply provocative and reflective story, Daphne's live show leans heavily on trip hop, blue-eyed soul and prohibition-era voodoo all set in a seedy cabaret. Moxie was produced by Bill Readey in New Haven CT and features several guests from the wealth of the Elm City's music scene, including John Panos (Mates of State), Matt Lindauer (Sugarbat), Eric Stevenson (Pocket Vinyl), Milksop:Unsung, Matt Thomas (M.T.Bearington), Sam Perduta (Elison Jackson) and Erik Elligers (Goodnight Blue Moon).

“Moxie has a whole lot of style, confidence, and just the right amount of self-conscious smirk. Warm and inviting, it duly manifests its role as the hooker with a heart of gold.” - Fabricoh Magazine

"Lemme tell you it's a badly behaved set of tracks. It's a liquored up weekend whose hangover lasts well into the work week." -Anthony Fantano, The Needle Drop

"Moxie is an altogether different affair. Less a collection of songs – more a soundtrack to a wild burlesque show. Underwater, dreamy vocals, you hear reggae beats under New Orleans horns….bossa nova…honky tonk…Gypsy and swing….all in a late-night cabaret. " -John Dankosky, NPR

“The music is a little dirty, a little dangerous but a hell of a good time.” - Chip McCabe, CT.com

”Devilishly delightful… a skip through sin city.” - Dissociative ID, WKDU Phildelphia

”Cheeky, and full of verve and swing... equal to anything Dr. John might have conjured up in his voodoo lair.” - Vincent Bator, Examiner.com

“With her strong writing style and sultry vocal delivery, Martin has you in the palm of her hand from track one.” - Troy Michael, Innocent Words Chicago

"Channeling Peggy Lee singing in some interstellar speakeasy backed by Jack White, where the fashion of bowler hats and bow ties are mixed with Go Go boots and mini-skirts" -Rick Bowen, No Depression

www.daphneleemartin.com
https://soundcloud.com/telegraph-recording-co/sets/moxie-daphne-lee-martin

9pm- Tripeg Lobo presents:
“The only girl I've ever loved Was born with roses in her eyes”: History Songs

FIRST YEAR ANNIVERSARY!

There are hundreds of history songs about battles, explorers, labor struggles, princes, martyrs, gun slingers…Artists will either pick a song about an historical event or figure to cover, then write a new history song (it doesn’t have to be about the same subject!) or do two originals. Visual aids will be strongly encouraged: photos, costumes, props, dioramas…
Artists will include: Elisa Flynn, Sarah Bisman, The Halsey Hellhounds, Chris Q. Murphy, Maharajah Sweets; more TBD.

11pm- Cornbred
Genre: Blues / Afrillachian / Footstompin Craziness
For fans of: Official Joe Cocker, Dr. John, Black Diamond Heavies, The Black Keys, Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie

From the depths of of the hollars of Appalachia, the musicians of Tn congregate in the dirty little river town known as Knoxville. In a town where you can throw a stick and hit 10 musicians on a friday night in the old city, it takes a lot to continue the craft there. Cornbred is a culmination, the residue that's left in the bottom of the bottle of Knoxville's music scene. A collective of serious musicians who have unpretentiously dedicated themselves to the craft of musically taking an audience to a place emotionally, and sometimes intellectually, where the truths of living in modern Appalachia can be experienced, not just commented on.

http://www.reverbnation.com/cornbredblues