Category:Rod Picott House Concert
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Please join Rod's us in the listening room before, during and after the show to discuss the music or say hello to Rod and Amanda or your fellow listeners. We'll keep the discussion generally focused on the show there, so if you'd like to communicate about that, stop on by!
Pre-Show Information
Who: Rod Picott - "...a reference point for the next generation of musicians..."
Amanda Shires - "...and I said ‘How about some Faded Love?’ and she played so pretty that Kenny and I missed our plane..."
Date: Saturday, June 14th, 2008 - Peter Cooper & Eric Brace House Concert began 1 mth, 10 days ago
Time: doors open all day - music starts at 7PM - entire concert is webcast live
Suggested in-house donation: $10 honor system - 100% of all proceeds generated go directly to the performer.
Where: The Whole Wheat Radio Palace in Talkeetna, Alaska. Click here for driving directions to Whole Wheat Radio in Talkeetna
Food: Some munchies are provided but if you'd like to bring desserts or other munchies either for yourself or to share, feel free.
Drink: Coffee, tea, non-alcoholic drinks provided. Otherwise, bring your own beer or wine. Please drink responsibly.
Kids: No kid care will be provided for this show - unless you bring it. Probably not a good show for small kids to attend anyway. But if you want to come and can't make other arrangements for the little ones, just make sure they are downstairs and don't disturb the adults in the audience. Thanks!
Contact: Jim Kloss at 733-2452
More Info: More general information about our cabin concerts can be found by clicking on this link If you cannot attend, remember that all of our cabin concerts are webcast live. Just click on the Listen (lo-fi) or Listen (med-fi) or Listen (hi-fi) links on the left-hand menu. In addition, if you can't make the concert, they are recorded and if the artist is happy and gives permission, the complete recording will be posted on this page within a few days of the show.
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Rod Picott Biography
Growing up in the small mill town of South Berwick, Maine, Rod Picott (pronounced Pie-caught) was exposed to a surprising mix of musical influences. His father, a former marine, owned a record collection that spanned from the marches of John Philip Sousa to Ray Charles. His older brother, an avid record collector, introduced Rod to the punk poetry of Patti Smith and The Clash, finishing the groundwork of influences that Rod would draw from later in his own music. The seacoast area of southern Maine had an unlikely but thriving local music scene in the late '80s and and Picott spent his late teens and early 20's in bands playing the clubs from Boston, Massachusetts to Portland, Maine.
After a few years in Boulder, Colorado busking the streets and studying song craft, 1994 saw a move to Nashville, Tennessee. Picott established himself as one of the better new writers in town and hosted a weekly showcase called Rod Picott's Fireside Whiskey Hour as well as opening shows for Alison Krauss and Union Station, and Gillian Welch. His co-write "Broke Down" with Slaid Cleaves was the most played song on Americana radio in 2001.
Picott's debut release, Tiger Tom Dixon's Blues, announced his arrival as an artist of note. The album received airplay from Bob Harris on the BBC, and Music Row magazine's Robert Oermann called the debut, "the birth of a major, major artist".
2002's Stray Dogs displayed even finer skills as a writer and vocalist and featured guest appearances from Alison Krauss and frequent co-writer Slaid Cleaves. The album was embraced by Americana radio and found it's way onto the chart for five weeks. It also found it's way onto many year's-best lists in both the States and Europe.
Released in November 2004 on his own Welding Rod Records label, girl from arkansas brought Picott's eye for lyric detail and whiskey-voiced delivery together with a newfound intimacy. With girl from arkansas Rod Picott continued to thrive and expand as a storyteller and singer.
In 2005 a collection of live performances titled Travel Log was released. Recorded in front of a small crowd in Charlotte, North Carolina, the CD documents a soulful performance with accompaniment from Dobro and lapsteel player Matt Mauch.
In 2006 Picott co-produced, [with David Henry] Slaid Cleaves' Rounder Records release Unsung to great reviews.
In the summer of 2007 Rod assembled some of his favorite musicians and Nashville sidemen and went after his fourth studio album. The resulting Summerbirds is a beautifully realized collection that contains both full-on rockers and the elegant ballads his audience has come to know him for. Maverick magazine called Summerbirds "as damn near perfect as you can get" and gave the album a full five-star review. A full band tour through the UK and Italy followed the European release of Summerbirds. Rod and the band played live on the BBC in London and a distribution deal with Proper Distribution was signed for the album. Picott continues to tour the U.S. in support of Summerbirds and is currently recording a duo album of songs co-written with Texas fiddle player and frequent side musician Amanda Shires.
Others Say
"Live, Picott cultivates an 'anti image', the slightly crumpled, lived in suit and raspy voice may have been the result of 12 nights on the road, (Johnny Cash only did six before he made it home) but it fits perfectly the homespun, down to earth music. The man is a blank canvas, his music paint the pictures." --Michael Mee
"You felt that he would have kept on singing if he's been allowed. And we would have kept on listening and shouting for more." --Keith Clark
"Rod Picott is a tall lean hunk of presence that dominates the Musician from the moment he sets foot on the stage. Touring to promote his third album, Girl from Arkansas, a quieter and more considered set than his previous two, rather fine, efforts, he splits his sets equally between new and old. His songs have a sparse grit to them that’s particularly noticeable in songs like “Broke Down” and Tiger Tom Dixon’s Blues”, especially when compared to boyhood pal Slaid Cleaves’ more showy versions. His voice meanwhile has a mournful and haunted quality that perfectly complements tales like “Bring It On”s beaten down defiance. He’s clearly having a whale of a time and occasionally there’s a slightly surreal contrast between a big goofy grin and a song like “Stray Dogs”. The new songs are at least the equal of his earlier work, with “Girl from Arkansas” being as good as anything he’s written. Throughout there’s an effortlessness and a lack of "performance" that makes you feel as though you’ve just gotten lucky and stumbled on him singing on a porch somewhere. It’s a privilege to be present on nights like these." --Jeremy Searle
Videos and Slideshows
External Links
- Rod's main site
- Rod's Myspace site
- Rod Picott Yahoo Fan Group
- Rod Picott on Wikipedia
- Rod Picott on Youtube
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Live chat
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Photos taken during the show
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