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Lynda...with a "Y", the band I blogged about previously has changed the name to "Mercy". It still has Lynda Morrison on lead vocals, myself on guitar, John Lingafelter on bass, Gary Nisbet playing keyboards and Jim Sitter on drums.
The band is readying itself for the 2009 season and has been working on covers and originals. Get out and see Mercy when you can. You won't be disappointed!
Check out www.myspace.com/lyndawithay3175
If you're in the southern Oregon or northern California area be on the lookout for a new band that I'm privileged to be helping out with. The group features vocalist Lynda Morrison. Presently I'm playing guitar with John Lingafelter on bass and Gary Nisbet handling the keyboards. The fantastic Jim Sitter has been holding the groove together on drums.
Lynda is truly one of the best vocalists I've ever heard or had the honor of playing with. You can hear some samples of this group on my MySpace site. The songs "Attitude" and "Lead Me On" are from a demo recently cut. I wish I could put copyrighted material on there as she does one of the best versions of Otis Redding's "Security" I've ever heard. I guess you'll just have to keep your eyes and ears open for when "Lynda...with a 'Y" comes to your area so you can check it out!
Also, be watching for the "Lynda...with a 'Y" MySpace site coming soon!
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Guitarist Dave Day has never met Robert Cray, but Cray's music has helped him discover that he is a bluesman himself. "I was pretty much just a rock 'n' roller before then," Day says. "I started listening to Cray, Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughn around 1989. I've been hooked on blues ever since.
"It was nice because then I could give up wearing Spandex and put on regular clothes," he says.
Who: Dave Day and the Robert Cray Band
When: 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4
Where: Rogue Theatre, 143 S.E. H St., Grants Pass
Tickets: $45 in advance; $50 at the door
Call: 471-1316 or see roguetheatre.com
Day will open the Robert Cray Band's show to be held at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, at the Rogue Theatre, 143 S.E. H St., Grants Pass.
Day is a music instructor by day and a guitarist for roots and blues band Broadway Phil and the Shouters by night.
"I spend most of my time playing with the Shouters," he says. "Another guitarist, Jake Thompson, and I joined the Shouters about a year and a half ago."
Harp player Phil Newton and drummer Dave Mathieu formed the Shouters in 1994. The band also features bassist Gary Davis.
Day also backs up recording artist and international touring act Darell Mansfield whenever he performs in the region.
"He's like the Eddie Van Halen of harmonica," Day says. "Two other local musicians, Jim Sitter and John Lingafelter, and I sit in with him."
Day says that he'll present an acoustic set of four or five songs to open Cray's show.
"I'll be doing one that I wrote, an instrumental on slide guitar call 'Slide Slippin' ' and some cover songs," Day says.
Day appears on the Shouters' new album, titled "Shout Back." The CD is available at theshouters.org. The group has two other albums to its credit, "Rock Bottom" (1996) and "Rhythm and Dues" (2002). The Shouters' performing credits include shows with Curtis Salgado, Roomful of Blues, the Paul deLay Band and Lloyd Jones of the Lloyd Jones Struggle — all of whom have performed with bluesman Cray during the late '70s early '80s while touring up and down the West Coast.
Cray started his band with members Tom Murphy, Rocky Manzanares and Richard Cousins in 1974 in Eugene. In 1978 Cray and his band appeared in "National Lampoon's Animal House" as the fictional Otis Day and the Knights. In 1980 Cray's band lineup changed to include Curtis Salgado. The lineup changed again in 1992 when keyboardist and saxophonist Michael Vannice joined the band. The group set out on an overseas tour with John Lee Hooker, Willie Dixon and Charlie Musselwhite that wound up at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Cray and his band continue to tour and record, as well as pick up a few Grammy Awards along the way.
Day says he hopes to meet Cray when the two perform at the Rogue Theatre.
"The real question is will he be able to meet me?" he laughs.
Tickets cost $45 in advance, $50 at the door and are available at roguetheatre.com; The Oregon Outpost, Music Shop and Larry's Music in Grants Pass; Larry's Music in Medford; Music Coop in Ashland; or by calling 471-1316.