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Band In A Box + Josh Max + Ervin Stellar + Jake La Botz @ The Way Station

8pm- Band In A Box
Genre: Jazz/Swing (1940’s/1950’s)
For fans of: Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Krall, Doris Day, Betty Hutton, Julie London, Peggy Lee, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, and other classic jazz artists

Band In A Box has a captivating jazz/swing style that will leave you singing along! Enjoy the sound that will take you back to the 1940's/1950's. The songs they perform range from classic jazz songs such as "Autumn Leaves" and "Sentimental Journey" to fresh big bandstyle songs such as "Murder, He Says". The New York based band has played in venues all over NY. Their sound has been described as “refreshing” and “enchanting”!

http://www.reverbnation.com/bandinabox
https://www.facebook.com/AmandaSprecherVocalist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc7kKHi4AkI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yieYeK_Utw

9pm- Josh Max
For fans of: Tin Pan Alley, Rockabilly, Pop, Country

Josh Max carries the spirit of “music for the people” with him, fast-pickin' on a Gibson Blues King guitar and singing in a Tilbrookian, Lennonesque, Carl Perkinsian, Hankish style as well as yodeling like an Ozark mountain boy. His falsetto also goes as high as a elephant’s eye and he writes melodies and lyrics about monkeys, cats, sex, the Devil, Olive Oyl, vacations, money, blind alleys and Sunday biscuits. Last year MPL Communications got one of his songs in a $208,000,000 Hollywood blow-'em-up called “Battleship.” Josh was also the first guy to arrange and play six guitars in a concert featuring the music of Nick Drake in the USA at Central Park Summerstage in 2005 with Robert Kirby conducting an 18-piece orchestra. He has performed in NYC, Los Angeles, Nashville, India, London, Maui, Bali, Kazahstan, China, Portugal and all parts of the tri-state area. He is sponsored by Gibson guitars and Hohner harmonicas.
 
www.JoshMax.com

10pm- Ervin Stellar

Genre: Americana
For fans of: Neil Young, Mason Jennings, Wilco, The Wood Bros., Bob Dylan

A. Jordan - Vocals, Harp, Rhythm Guitar
JT Paz - Bass
James Winwood - Pedal Steel Guitar

www.ervinstellar.com

11pm- Jake La Botz
Genre: Blues, Roots
For fans of: Howling Wolf, Lightning Hopkins, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan

After dropping out of school at 15, Jake La Botz hit the road, frequenting punk rock shows, hobo camps, and libraries. He found employment as a roofer, boilermaker, graphite factory worker, and obituary writer. In the midst of this he learned how to play guitar. He played on the streets and in the juke joints of New Orleans, Chicago, and the Mississippi Delta, finding kinship with some of the last of the pre-war era bluesmen: David “Honeyboy” Edwards, “Homesick” James, and “Maxwell Street” Jimmy Davis. La Botz has become known for his "Tattoo Across America Tour", where he tours the country performing at tattoo shops and as an actor in films in which he sometimes sings his original songs: RAMBO dir. Sylvester Stallone, ANIMAL FACTORY dir. Steve Buscemi, ON THE ROAD dir. Walter Salles.

"Jake La Botz is a creator of dark poetry and haunting song, the kind of music that gets in your bones and rides you for days, a sound and vision only those who've been to the bottom and clawed their way back up can generate. His midnight gifts evoke Hank Williams and Skip James as much as Tom Waits and Dylan. Not everybody will get this music - because not everybody is ready for the truth. --Jerry Stahl (author of Permanent Midnight)

"Jake is the modern day Hank Williams." --Steve Buscemi (Actor-Director)

www.jakelabotz.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69DZVA6YKI8

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