Name: Michael Tarbox Band with special guest Frank Morey!
Start: 2024-06-15T21:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-06-15T23:30:00-04:00
Location: Lizard Lounge

Michael Tarbox Band with special guest Frank Morey!

Lizard Lounge

Michael Tarbox and his Band at the Lizard Lounge with special guest Frank Morey!

Event is 21+$18/$22 Door “At the heart of Tarbox’s music is his guitar, as raw as it is charismatic. It creates an electricity that courses through every song." - TwangvilleMichael Tarbox writes songs anchored in rock ‘n’ roll, backwater blues, and hillbilly music. The Chicago Reader calls Tarbox’s singing “ageless.” His gospel-tinged electric guitar playing, tough as Texas barbed-wire, brings it all together. Tarbox grew up in a mill town just west of Boston. He credits a cool babysitter with introducing him to the music that led him to become a musician. “She was the older sister I never had,” says Tarbox, “She and her art-room friends would come over and play these incredible rock ‘n’ roll records. They were also listening to Leadbelly and Robert Johnson. It was a window into another world, and it changed everything for me.”Tarbox began his career with <a href="https://www.tarboxramblers.com/" title="https://www.tarboxramblers.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Tarbox Ramblers</a>, a hard-hitting quartet that released well-received albums on Rounder and played countless shows throughout the US and Canada. The group featured both Tarbox’s own songs and his unusual arrangements of old blues and string-band music. The Washington Post called The Tarbox Ramblers “a force of nature.” Robert Plant saw the band play and recruited them, on the spot, to open a string of concert dates.These days Tarbox is, for the most part, playing solo shows. His new songs are rough-hewn, and imbued with a sense of hard-won perspective. They sound lived in. “My inspirations are from a world that’s vanished,” says Tarbox. “I let them guide me, but my goal is to create something new.” <a href="https://www.michaeltarbox.com/" title="https://www.michaeltarbox.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.michaeltarbox.com/</a>

"Singer/songwriter Frank Morey has never been accused of having a sweet, pretty, angelic sort of voice. The Lowell, MA, native is known for a rough, rugged, throaty style of singing, and his voice is perfect for his very earthy, blues-minded folk-rock and roots rock -- Morey's expressive vocals are as gritty as they are soulful. The New Englander, who plays acoustic guitar and harmonica, brings a variety of influences to the table. He has often been compared to early <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tom-waits-mn0000615119" title="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tom-waits-mn0000615119" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Tom Waits</a>, and his other influences range from <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bob-dylan-mn0000066915" title="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bob-dylan-mn0000066915" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Bob Dylan</a> and <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/leonard-cohen-mn0000071209" title="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/leonard-cohen-mn0000071209" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Leonard Cohen</a> to the late Chicago blues giant <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/howlin-wolf-mn0000276085" title="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/howlin-wolf-mn0000276085" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Howlin' Wolf</a>. In the northeastern part of the United States, Morey has tended to fare well among fans of anti-folk -- a gutsy, punk-minded, in-your-face form of folk-rock that is associated with artists like <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lach-mn0000778540" title="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lach-mn0000778540" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Lach</a>, Lenny Molotov, and the Philadelphia-based <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/adam-brodsky-mn0002297754" title="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/adam-brodsky-mn0002297754" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Adam Brodsky</a> (among others). Morey isn't anti-folk per se -- he has a more classic type of sound -- but like the anti-folk crowd, he likes his folk-rock with a tough, hard edge and a lot of guts. And he shares many of anti-folk's influences, especially the seminal <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bob-dylan-mn0000066915" title="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bob-dylan-mn0000066915" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Bob Dylan</a>."-Alex Henderson

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