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Pleased to welcome our friend Jeffrey Dean Foster & The Arrows back to Gas Hill Drinking Room on February 15, 2025, with special guest Florence Dore! Doors at 7 PM, show at 8 PM.Tickets are on sale NOW at TheRamkat.com!
Over a rich career, spanning four decades, Jeffrey Dean Foster has toured the country and shared the stage with Bob Dylan, The Cowboy Junkies, Alex Chilton, Alejandro Escovedo, Ian Hunter and many more. He's scored an entire Angus MacLachlan film, racked up accolades from all the right magazines, and was labelmates with Whitney Houston! When Jeffrey Dean Foster watched the Black Lives Matter protests following George Floyd’s murder, he wanted to address the cruelty that prompted them. The result was “I’m Starting to Bleed,” a pastiche of late-period Bowie and “Cruisin’”-era Smokey Robinson infused with a creeping sense of dread. Now, with not much more than a pile of home recording equipment, and a raging case of cabin fever, he has produced an EP that sits proudly amongst his very best work.
I'm Starting To Bleed is the latest chapter in Jeffrey Dean Foster’s exceptional career in music, which dates back to the mid-1980s. Long before the Americana movement caught fire – before the genre even had a name, in fact – Foster was synthesizing folk, rock and roots music with such bands as the Right Profile, the Carneys and the Pinetops. Signed to Arista Records by Clive Davis, the Right Profile were poised for success as a proto-Americana group; why it didn’t happen is one of those classic music-biz tales. A 1998 album with The Pinetops, Above Ground and Vertical, showed the individuality of Foster's vision, but it was the long-awaited release of Million Star Hotel, his first solo album, that finally gathered all facets of his musical vision in a uniformly spectacular fashion. Upon the release of Foster's album, The Arrow, Stereophile Magazine commented, "The Arrow, a near masterpiece on virtually every level. This is the kind of album that will stop you in your tracks."
Nashville-born, Chapel Hill-based Florence Dore’s newest record, Highways & Rocketships, recorded with Mitch Easter and Don Dixon, won Best Americana Album of the Year at Lonesome Highway Magazine. Even not counting the pandemic, the road from her first record Perfect City to Highways & Rocketships has been anything but straight. She spent a lot of time between then and now riding around on Steve Earle’s tour bus, catching up with her Dukes-drumming husband Will Rigby (also of the legendary dB’s), wrote a couple books, put on a conference at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, took a seat on the board at the Bob Dylan Institute--and had a kid. Back in 1994 the Posies covered Florence’s song “Christmas” for the Geffen release, Just Say Noel, and over the first pandemic months, when she had to suspend recording plans for Highways & Rocketships, she co-created Cover Charge, the charting compilation of NC artists to benefit Cat’s Cradle. She is currently working on her third album, Hold the Spark, due out in 2025. #jeffreydeanfosterandthearrows #florencedore #gashilldrinkingroom #wsnc #supportlivemusic
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Gas Hill Drinking Room, 170 W 9th St, Winston-Salem, NC 27101-1523, United States,Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Winston Salem
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