Guitar Shorty wsg: Sonny Moorman CD Release Party
Venue: The Clazel Theatre 127 N. Main St Bowling Green, OH 43402 419-353-5000
Event: GUITAR SHORTY wsg: SONNY MOORMAN CD Release party
Date/Time: SATURDAY October 23, doors @ 7 / show @ 8pm
Cost: Tickets $12 Advance / $15 Day of show
You can purchase tickets now at Finders in BG M-S 9 to 9, Culture Clash in Toledo, Clazel.net or The Clazel W-S after 7pm.
GUITAR SHORTY
Nominated for two
Blues Music Awards!
When other kids were in high school, Shorty was a student by day and a working musician by night. One evening when he went to work the marquis read, “The Walter Johnson Band featuring Guitar Shorty"; the name he would go by from then on was born.
Right out of high school at the age of 16 Shorty joined Ray Charles and his band for a year. At the age of 17 he recorded a single under the direction of Willie Dixon on the Cobra label. When Shorty was lured away to play with Guitar Slim he moved to New Orleans.
In New Orleans, Shorty fronted his own group that became the house band at the legendary Dew Drop Inn. There he played with greats such as T Bone Walker, Big Joe Turner and Little Richard. It took a job with Sam Cooke to get 19 year old Shorty on the bus and on his way to the West Coast.
Shorty lived and worked in both Los Angeles and Canada until in 1961 he met his wife, Marcia, in Seattle. When Shorty married Marcia he also got Jimi Hendrix, Marcia’s brother for a brother-in-law. The young Jimi Hendrix came to see Shorty play often and they were friends until Jimi’s untimely death
Like a Texas tumbleweed, Shorty rolled back to the Los Angeles area in 1971 and Los Angeles has remained his home. He cut his first full album and got his first W.C. Handy Award while living there.
Since that time Shorty has recorded several albums for the Black Top label and is currently signed to Evidence Records. He often jams at local clubs with former members of the Eagles, Steely Dan, and calls local blues artist Keb Mo a personal friend and fan. He continues to capture audiences with his sincerity, energy, and Rocking/Blues style. - Nov.2001
Website: www.GuitarShorty.com
Website & Pics: http://www.guitarshorty.org/index.htm
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/guitarshorty
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/GuitarShorty?v=app_19935916616
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pmAOvORp_4
SONNY MOORMAN
"I came to play" says Sonny Moorman. "I was raised in the bars my folks owned in and around Hamilton, OH and got to hear world class artists Lonnie Mack, Cal Collins, Dumpy Rice, Troy Seals, Wayne Perry, and a score of others up close and personal and learned one thing – all the hype in the world doesn't mean a thing unless you can back it up!" Those are words Sonny has lived by through the decades of roadhouses, bars, and juke joints from coast to coast. He backed it up gig after gig, night after night, and year after year until his own "hype" got too big to go unnoticed any longer. After a decade of playing rock bars in Michigan with a variety of bands and a five year "visit" to LA during which he graduated from Musician's Institute and played with "Z Deluxe" (Warren Zevon's 1982 tour band), Moorman returned to Ohio – and to the Blues.
Website: http://www.sonnymoorman.net/index.html
Photos: http://www.sonnymoorman.net/photos.html
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/thesonnymoormangroup
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Sonny-Moorman-Group/185118085463?v=wall
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybblDXOmJsc&feature=related
Press Release Contact Name: Banan AlKilani
Press Release Contact Email: [email protected]
Press Release Contact Phone: 4193535000
Organization Name: Clazel Theater
Website or Link: www.clazel.net
Organization Address: 127 N Main St, Bowling Green, OH, 43402