Spring 2007 Performers

Arty Hill and Friends
Friday, April 6

"’The Streets of Baltimore’ has reigned as the Official Baltimore Country Song for decades,” the Baltimore City Paper wrote recently, “but [in Arty Hill's ‘I Left Highlandtown’] there's a respectable rival... Like the rest of the Hill originals on the new ‘Back on the Rail,’ album it slaps lyrics that'd impress at any guitar pull on top of the kind of basic Tele-twang-and-shuffle backing custom-built for red-lit barrooms." Hill (pictured here with the Long Gone Daddys)-- who won the 2003 Hank Williams Songwriting Contest in Alabama and who sometimes accompanies Jason Ringenberg on stage--not only wrote “I Left Highlandtown” but also delivers the chorus lines (“I left Highlandtown, stole a tank of gas, told you to go to hell and my boss to kiss my ass”) with an end-of-his-rope authenticity. He is joined by former Paradise Rocker guitarist Dave Chapell and drummer Craig Stevens on the 11 originals. “Great songs, great production and great singing/picking," Ringenberg writes in the liner notes. “It's all here."

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Discography

Arty Hill:

Baltimore Reasons (Arty Hill, 2004)
Arty Hill and the Long Gone Daddys:

Back on the Rail (Arty Hill, 2005)

NOTE: Because The Mercy Brothers cancelled at the last minute, we're lowering the cover charge tonight from $10 to $7. Arty and the boys will bridge the gap with an extra set of scorching rockers.