Big Dave McLean - Pocket Full Of Nothin'With an assembled group of Black Hen regulars including Steve Dawson on multiple stringed instruments, Jeremy Holmes and Gary Craig handling bass and drums, and Chris Gestrin on piano and organ making up the nucleus of the band, what sets this recording apart form his previous efforts is the addition of a fully realized horn section. It was then a thrill and a pleasure when Steve brought in Jerry Cook on Baritone sax, Dominic Conway on tenor sax and

I give you the Concert of Europe

refined circles held by cultivated women enabled them to rub shoulders with the leading poets of the time

Moloney's sad death last year leaves a great musical legacy

In the last few years he has emerged with new recordings

Ira Glass' Pulitzer Prize-winning radio program This American Life commissioned ten pieces from composer Stephen Ulrich to convey the yearning

the artist who then embodied the modernity of Salomé

and offering a rich cross-section of the finest blues of the 20th century

Bob Corritore

Hutson writes songs that the SF Bay Guardian describes as

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