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JUNE
SHOW
Friday,
June 2, 2006 at Poe's Pub featuring
THE
DEAVES with BEN JORDAN AND THE HEATHENS and DAVID SHULTZ opening
POE'S
PUB - 2706 E. Main Street
Here's
a little bit about the acts that are playing the June concert
series...
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THE TATERS
 THE
DEAVES
The
Deaves (deeves) play original rock and roll. They have been compared
to The Killers, The Pixies, Weezer and other bands with lotsa balls. The
name means (Deave) v. t. [See Deafen.] To stun or stupefy with noise; to
deafen. [Scot.]
The
history of The Deaves began with a studio project between
guitarist/singer/songwriter Paul Pearce and producer/bassist Kyle Miller in
Nashville TN in 2000. After listening to Paul's cassette demos one night, Kyle began
a collaboration that would eventually span three years and involve a host
of local musicians. Working after-hours in Kyle's basement studio for over
a year, the two produced a 10-song compilation of no-frills power pop.
While looking for a title Kyle found an old Scottish word, "deave",
meaning "to stun or deafen with noise"; a perfect fit for the
raw energy behind the recordings.
In
2002 Paul moved to Virginia, effectively ending the collaboration. However, both
continued work on the project independently, with Kyle mixing and mastering the
recording in 2003 and Paul continuing to write and search for musicians in the
Richmond area to form a live band. In the fall of 2004, Paul
found drummer Aaron Tunnell (Twain, Animal Farm) and bassist Mike Nelson,
to form The Deaves. Currently, the
band is playing throughout the
Richmond
area, gaining a reputation for catchy, well-constructed original songs. The
Deaves' first CD is available at live performances.
Website: www.thedeaves.com
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SCHNITZEL
BEN
JORDAN AND THE HEATHENS
Journeyman. If you look in the dictionary you'll
find Ben Jordan's picture next to the definition. For the last 13 years
Ben has traveled the country, listening, learning & playing. His journey has
had him living & playing in several of the country's musical hot beds
including, New York City, Nashville, New Orleans, San Francisco & Boulder,
CO. In these places he has had the privilege of befriending some rising stars
and established vets, including: Derek Trucks, members of The String Cheese
Incident, The Slip, Warren Haynes, Kelly Joe Phelps, The Jazz Mandolin Project,
Adam Levy (of Norah Jones' Handsome Band), Brad Rice (Ryan Adams & Son
Volt), to name a few.
The musical odyssey for this 34 year old
Richmond, VA resident began at the age of four when mom bought Ben a drum for
his birthday. This innocent and probably in mom's opinion regrettable decision
began a love affair with music whose fires burn brighter with every year. After
years of drumming, Ben began studying piano & continued to play both
instruments 'til the age of 18. After a couple years of not playing Ben picked
up the guitar at the age of 20. Within a year he was playing jazz &
improvising and decided to head to the National Guitar Summer Workshop where
established lifelong friendships with Bradd Barr of The SLip, Eric Krasno of
Soulive & Adam Levy guitarist for Norah Jones. Since
then Ben has gone on to learn every major style of American music including:
bluegrass, blues, folk, country, rock-n-roll and R&B. He has also had the
opportunity to study several non-western form of music and some of those
instruments including the Oud, from the middle east, and the big gongs of
Javanese Gamelan.
A gifted instrumentalist, singer and songwriter,
Ben hopes to keep writing, recording, touring and make a mark on the music we
call Americana.
Website:
www.myspace.com/benandtheheathens
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THE TATERS
 DAVID
SHULTZ
David
Shultz combines Country, Rock, and R&B to create an original style of music.
Whether he's playing by himself acoustic or with a full band backing him up,
Allen brings honest music to every audience he plays for. "Much
of David Shultz seems to respond to a line in "Flaws": "When you
get too close to beauty / You begin to see the flaws / But I really don't think
that's too close at all." Shultz approaches pop perfection in almost every
one of his songs, delivering one so-easy-I-shoulda-thought-of-that melody after
another over humble acoustic guitar, but he uses his music's simple elegance to
explore some serious hurt. His warm-as-an-old-LP voice cracks and shakes when he
probes deep, chipping away at his music's rounded pop surface and pushing on in
search of intimacy and revelation. Shultz
finds release in the discomfort of breaking personal boundaries, but to reduce
his music to pure catharsis would be to ignore the beauty of the impressions
that he leaves in spite of himself. The music's honesty prevents it from
wallowing in misery for too long. By rendering his feelings with a clarity that
mirrors his plainfolk chord structures and spartan arrangements, Shultz allows
his songs to speak more about the nature of his communication style than the
nature of his suffering. "The Fisher King"'s dark subject matter, for
instance, is less pivotal for the song than Shultz's delivery, which
demonstrates that even his figurative speech is relatively no-nonsense. The
album's only gratuitous notes come in "How It Was"'s Coldplay-lite
intro, and after those fleeting seconds, Shultz remains as economical as a
Hemingway narrator, even as he lures us in to examine his flaws." -Phillip
Buchan 11/12/05, spendidezine.com
Website: www.myspace.com/davidshultz
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