Michael McNevin

  Wed April 24th  Mudpuddle Shop Concert featuring SoCal songwriter Randall Lamb!  w/ other special guests sitting in. Likely a Mudpuddle Song Swap & Jam to follow concert www.michaelmcnevin.com  510 794 9935 for info/RSVPs

Randall Lamb grew up in California, east of Los Angeles, where refugees, transients, Okies, Arkies, Cornhuskers, Mid-westerners, Texans, Mexicans and working stiffs settled between the desert and the dream. This was the end of the rainbow of Route 66, a place of bright sun, dark pasts and dim futures.  It was a time when all array of hillbilly, country, folk, rhythm and blues, jazz, and rock and roll were heard in the pre-programmed, pre-Beatle time zone of AM radio, 3 channel television, honkytonks, bars, cheap gas and open roads. This was Randall’s cultural and musical landscape.   Influenced by Cisco Houston, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Townes Van Zandt, Hank Williams and those of the troubadour tradition--not stardom bound, but passing through and maybe bound for glory—Randall writes and performs his own songs.  His songs have been recorded by the folk duo of Steve Werner and Fur Dixon. One song, “Can The Rich Get To Heaven?” received an honorable mention at the 2006 Woody Guthrie Folk Festival Songwriting Contest. “The songs don’t stray far from 3 chords and the truth,” Randall says, "….simple truths and existential blues."   Randall has four CDs, Coffee Drinkin’ Music, Can The Rich Get To Heaven?, Back On My Feet and Out Beyond the Great Beyond.  This is his first visit to Niles, he'll enjoy the Mud, and so will you.