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Excited to welcome Jeffrey Dean Foster & James Mastro to Gas Hill Drinking Room on September 20, 2024 with special guest Ava Foster! Doors at 7 PM, show at 8 PM.Tickets are on sale NOW at TheRamkat.com!
James Mastro - guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, producer and singer-songwriter extraordinaire - has toured the world dozens of times over as a supportive musician with some of the biggest and most critically acclaimed rock and pop artists ever to grace a stage including Ian Hunter, Patti Smith, John Cale, The Jayhawks, Alejandro Escovedo, Garland Jeffreys, Jesse Malin, and with Robert Plant as his musical director for a benefit concert for an artist they both admired immensely, Love’s Arthur Lee
At the age of 16, Mastro was already playing at CBGB’s and Max’s Kansas City during the height of the NYC punk scene. By the time he was 17, he had been asked by Television’s Richard Lloyd to join his new band, which included playing on Lloyd’s highly acclaimed Alchemy album on Elektra. Moving to Hoboken, NJ, in 1980, Mastro added his guitar and songwriting skills to The Bongos - helping launch the music scene based around the legendary rock club Maxwell’s. The Bongos went on to tour non-stop for five years supporting Drums Along the Hudson (Jem Records), and RCA releases Numbers With Wings, and Beat Hotel.
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! 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." #jeffreydeanfoster #jamesmastro #avafoster #gashilldrinkingroom #wsnc #supportlivemusic
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Gas Hill Drinking Room, 170 W 9th St,Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Winston Salem, United States
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