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Moe's Alley Presents: Eddie 9V w/ The Preacher Boy Trio
Tue, 15 Apr, 8:00 PM PDT
Doors open
7:00 PM PDT
Moe's Alley
1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz, CA 95065
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Moe's Alley presents the return of soul, blues rocker Eddie 9V with special guests The Preacher Boy Trio!
Tuesday, April 15th
Doors: 7pm / Show: 8pm
$20 in advance / $25 day of the show
21+
*Tickets go on sale Friday, January 24th at 10am PT*
EDDIE 9V
Eddie 9V has an endless stockpile of cool stories – and you’ll find twelve of them on new studio album ‘Saratoga’, releasing November 22, 2024 on the fabled Ruf label. It’s a record that will thrill both newcomers and fans who have trailed Eddie since the start, showcasing his fresh, fiery spin on Southern soul, blues, rock and funk, with his signature wit and sharp observations of modern America placing him squarely in the here-and-now. “I do think it’s a wonderful road trip album,” he nods.
Eddie 9V has powered up. From the day he first slung a guitar on a local stage, the Georgia-born band leader announced himself as an artist to watch. But in the last few} meteoric years, Eddie’s music has crossed oceans and airwaves, transcending his cult-hero status to become a beacon for fans of real music everywhere. “Eddie 9V is something else,” wrote the UK’s Classic Rock. “A man who genuinely inhabits golden-era American roots, playing the most instinctive blues you’ll hear all year.”
Check out the gig listings and you’ll find this rising star playing a bigger club every time he blows through town. Scan the charts and you’ll find his most recent album, 2022’s ‘Capricorn’, locking horns with the giants of rock ‘n’ roll. “Capricorn debuted at #1 and that was a cool feeling for a week, until Bonnie Raitt kicked us off,” reflects Eddie with a smile. “But hey, that’s a cool story to be able to say…”
THE PREACHER BOY TRIO
Ghost Notes, the new album from Preacher Boy, is a milestone release from a relentlessly pioneering artist who continues to both honor and extend the Americana and country blues traditions that inspire him.
Known for his rough-edged voice, vividly poetic storytelling lyrics, and masterful fingerpicking and slide guitar work, Preacher Boy conjures up a sound that has earned him comparisons to everyone from Howlin' Wolf and Bob Dylan to Tom Waits and Dr. John.
That Devil Music bestowed an early A+ on the release, declaring that "Preacher Boy has never been more compelling or intriguing than he is on Ghost Notes."
Preacher Boy’s career began with his debut on Blind Pig Records, an album that helped give birth to "alternative blues" as a genre that also included artists ranging from Chris Whitley and Alvin Youngblood Hart to The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and G. Love. Faster and Louder has called him "the godfather of alt blues," while The San Francisco Guardian tagged him as the “Charlie Musselwhite for the Lollapalooza Generation.
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Age Limit
21+
Blues-Rock
Eddie 9V
Eddie 9V
Blues-Rock
Eddie 9V has an endless stockpile of cool stories – and you’ll find twelve of them on new studio album ‘Saratoga’, releasing November 22, 2024 on the fabled Ruf label. It’s a record that will thrill both newcomers and fans who have trailed Eddie since the start, showcasing his fresh, fiery spin on Southern soul, blues, rock and funk, with his signature wit and sharp observations of modern America placing him squarely in the here-and-now. “I do think it’s a wonderful road trip album,” he nods.
Eddie 9V has powered up. From the day he first slung a guitar on a local stage, the Georgia-born band leader announced himself as an artist to watch. But in the last few} meteoric years, Eddie’s music has crossed oceans and airwaves, transcending his cult-hero status to become a beacon for fans of real music everywhere. “Eddie 9V is something else,” wrote the UK’s Classic Rock. “A man who genuinely inhabits golden-era American roots, playing the most instinctive blues you’ll hear all year.”
Check out the gig listings and you’ll find this rising star playing a bigger club every time he blows through town. Scan the charts and you’ll find his most recent album, 2022’s ‘Capricorn’, locking horns with the giants of rock ‘n’ roll. “Capricorn debuted at #1 and that was a cool feeling for a week, until Bonnie Raitt kicked us off,” reflects Eddie with a smile. “But hey, that’s a cool story to be able to say…”
We’ve rode shotgun with Eddie for a couple of decades now. Born Brooks Mason in June 1996, he was playing guitar by the age of six (“One of those with the speaker in} it – the most bang for your buck, y’know?”). Even then, manufactured pop music held nothing for him, and his years at Union Grove High School were instead soundtracked by local heroes like Sean Costello, alongside his studies of “older cats” like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Freddie King and Rory Gallagher.
“I wanted to see what made them groove and tick,” he explains. “I’ve been making up lyrics on the spot for years. I believe that came from my Uncle Brian at our family fish fries – he taught me about what made people laugh and what kept the audience’s attention.”
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The Preacher Boy Trio
The Preacher Boy Trio
Dirty Blues
Ghost Notes, the new album from Preacher Boy, is a milestone release from a relentlessly pioneering artist who continues to both honor and extend the Americana and country blues traditions that inspire him.
Known for his rough-edged voice, vividly poetic storytelling lyrics, and masterful fingerpicking and slide guitar work, Preacher Boy conjures up a sound that has earned him comparisons to everyone from Howlin' Wolf and Bob Dylan to Tom Waits and Dr. John.
That Devil Music bestowed an early A+ on the release, declaring that "Preacher Boy has never been more compelling or intriguing than he is on Ghost Notes."
Preacher Boy’s career began with his debut on Blind Pig Records, an album that helped give birth to "alternative blues" as a genre that also included artists ranging from Chris Whitley and Alvin Youngblood Hart to The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and G. Love. Faster and Louder has called him "the godfather of alt blues," while The San Francisco Guardian tagged him as the “Charlie Musselwhite for the Lollapalooza Generation.”
After Gutters and Pews, his second Blind Pig title, Preacher Boy relocated to Europe, where his subsequent three releases were written, recorded, and released. His music during this period was described by Melody Maker as "Country blues that marry Nick Cave, Robert Johnson, Woody Guthrie, and Tom Waits," while MOJO declared that "Preacher Boy is a songwriter of startling originality."
Preacher Boy moved to Brooklyn on the heels of co-writing and recording with Eagle-Eye Cherry and Rick Rubin at New York's fabled Magic Shop. While in New York, he recorded his first solo acoustic album, Demanding to be Next, of which Sing Out said: "Accompanied solely by his keening, propulsive National and Martin guitar playing, Preacher Boy compulsively unwinds a series of often startling, narcotic tales, that prove image-rich and packed with an aura of sweeping drama."
After a break to focus on writing poetry (courtesy of a grant to live and write in Jack Kerouac's former house), Preacher Boy returned to music with a vengeance, releasing three new albums of original material in as many years. Sputnik Music wrote that his new songs “abound with musical tales of desperation and loneliness that would do a Springsteen or a Neil Young proud. The man knows how to write a song and deliver it with gut-punch impact.”
Now, with Ghost Notes, Preacher Boy has delivered a musical summary statement, bringing decades of experience and maturity to bear upon an album of 18 original songs that should rightly be considered his masterpiece.