{"id":21973,"date":"2021-11-15T05:30:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T10:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=21973"},"modified":"2021-11-12T10:23:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T15:23:03","slug":"30-days-out-november-2021-2-john-papa-gros-mike-zito-hiss-golden-messenger-steve-gunn-jeff-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/15\/30-days-out-november-2021-2-john-papa-gros-mike-zito-hiss-golden-messenger-steve-gunn-jeff-parker\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Days Out, November 2021 #2: John \u201cPapa\u201d Gros, Mike Zito, Hiss Golden Messenger, Steve Gunn, Jeff Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new normal, yeah. Heck, even I<\/em> am going to shows again. But I wear a mask, I\u2019m vaccinated, and I\u2019m getting the booster soon. Because let\u2019s display at least a modicum of care for our fellow humans, shall we?<\/p>\n

Some great music is making its way to Asheville in the coming 30 days. Even with the holidays upon us, touring musicians are on the road. Name a genre and you can find an artist of quality who\u2019s coming to Western N.C. to play it. Here are four of particular note.<\/p>\n

\"\"Artist<\/b>: John \u201cPapa\u201d Gros<\/a>
\nVenue<\/b>: Isis Music Hall<\/a>
\nDate<\/b>: Wednesday, Nov. 17, 8:30 p.m.
\nDoor<\/b>: $15 advance \/ $20 day of show
\nWhen you think of New Orleans blues\/jazz\/funk\/soul\/r&b pianists, it\u2019s likely that Mac \u201cDr. John\u201d Rebbenack, Professor Longhair and James Booker are among the names that leap to mind. If John \u201cPapa\u201d Gros isn\u2019t among that list for you, he should be. Partly because unlike those other names, Gros is among the living, but also because he\u2019s an exceptional musician. By the way, the venue\u2019s practice of requiring significant additional expenditure on top of ticket purchase doesn\u2019t apply for this show. Maybe it\u2019s gone altogether; let\u2019s hope so.<\/p>\n

\"\"Artist<\/b>: Mike Zito<\/a>
\nVenue<\/b>: Salvage Station<\/a>
\nDate<\/b>: Wednesday, Dec. 8, 8 p.m.
\nDoor<\/b>: $18 advance \/ $22 day of show
\nOne of the foremost blues guitar slingers working today, Mike Zito consistently demonstrates his love and understanding of the full landscape of American musical forms. His Chuck Berry tribute album was quite well done, as was 2018\u2019s First Class Life<\/i> and 2019\u2019s Blue Room<\/i><\/a>. I\u2019ve reviewed all three.<\/p>\n

\"\"Artist<\/b>: Hiss Golden Messenger<\/a>
\nVenue<\/b>: The Orange Peel<\/a>
\nDate<\/b>: Thursday, Dec. 9, 9 p.m.
\nDoor<\/b>: $23
\nMC Taylor is Hiss Golden Messenger. His music starts with the folk idiom and expands from there. A highly regarded singer-songwriter, Taylor writes music that connects emotionally with the listener. I haven\u2019t interviewed him just yet, but I did pen a short essay about him for New City in 2019<\/a>. Excellent local act Roots and Dore opens.<\/p>\n

\"\"Artist<\/b>: Steve Gunn<\/a> and Jeff Parker<\/a>
\nVenue<\/b>: The Grey Eagle<\/a>
\nDate<\/b>: Friday, Dec. 10, 9 p.m.
\nDoor<\/b>: $17 advance \/ $20 day of show
\nI first saw Steve Gunn at the Transfigurations II Festival, and then again at the illustrious Big Ears Festival in Knoxville. He\u2019s a supremely talented and wide-ranging artist. He\u2019s a guitarist but not one who fits (or stays) neatly into a specific genre. He\u2019s equally comfortable engaging in exploratory experimentalism as he is crafting catchy tunes. He\u2019ll be appearing at the Grey Eagle co-billed with Jeff Parker. I interviewed Gunn in 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Support live music! Because you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new normal, yeah. Heck, even I am going to shows again. But I wear a mask, I\u2019m vaccinated, and I\u2019m getting the booster soon. Because let\u2019s display at least […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,31,42,44,60],"tags":[4076,237,948,4011,4080,4691,4688,4690,3429,1625,4689,4346,2046],"class_list":["post-21973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americana","category-blues","category-funk","category-jazz","category-live-shows","category-rb","tag-30-days-out","tag-asheville","tag-grey-eagle","tag-hiss-golden-messenger","tag-isis-music-hall","tag-jeff-parker","tag-john-papa-gros","tag-mc-taylor","tag-mike-zito","tag-orange-peel","tag-roots-and-dore","tag-salvage-station","tag-steve-gunn","cat-6-id","cat-9-id","cat-31-id","cat-42-id","cat-44-id","cat-60-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21979,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21973\/revisions\/21979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}