Message from Kyle

GATORBONE RECORDS NIGHT,  at the American Legion Hall, Tallahassee

Gatorbone Records presents a roster performance this Friday at the American Legion Hall in Tallahassee.

Performing will be Frank Lindamood, Grant Peeples and The Peeples Republik Band, and Lis Williamson with the Gatorbone Band.   Each has released a record on the Gatorbone label during  the last year.

 “There’s a thread that runs through all three records,” explains  Lis Williamson, who runs the label with her husband and Gatorbone Band bass player, Lon.   “The three records are in one sense dissimilar, but we’re cut from the same musical cloth, and our work is built upon the same musical appreciations.   Our history with each other runs back decades.   Gatorbone Records is a musical family first, and a record label second.”

Though a staple of the Florida Folk scene for years, his Gatorbone Records release is the first for Frank Lindamood, who Lon Williamson credits as being his musical mentor in the early 1970s.   “I had just turned eighteen and was a big admirer of Frank’s playing,” Williamson says.   “I was working for him on a construction job and told him I was starting to play guitar and that I was learning some Neil Young songs.   Frank told me,  ‘don’t worry, kid, you’ll get over that before long.’   Williamson laughs.   And you know what?  I did!”

Lindamood’s earthy record, “Hewn From The Rock,”  has been described by a recent reviewer as “new songs, that sound like they were written eighty years ago.”

Grant Peeples released his record, “PawnShop”, last Spring.  The Williamsons produced and engineered at their studio in Keystone Heights.  Peeples graduated from Leon High with Lis, and fondly remembers her  “playing her guitar in the boys bathroom, where she liked the tile acoustics.”    “PawnShop” has been played on over a hundred radio stations around the world, and has charted in both the US and Europe.  His Friday night band will include Brian Durham and Kelly Goddard of the New 76ers, as well as Gainesville guitarist Michael Legacy. 

In between tracking for the Lindamood and Peeples records, Lis Williamson managed to track her own, which is titled “Deep,” and was released this Spring.  The record ‘s backing is essentially the Gatorbone Band, but with added players filling in on percussion, keys and steel guitar.   This, too, is Williamson’s first solo record, though she has a number of band projects to her credit.   “I went thirty years playing other people’s songs, then two years ago these songs just starting pouring out of me,” she explains.

The full Gatorbone Band, including nationally recognized guitarist , Gabe Valla, and Claire Lynch’s fiddler, Jason Thomas, will be on hand.

 

American Legion Hall, Lake Ella
Doors at 7:00, music at 8:00.
Admission is $12.00. 

 

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