I am proud to announce that Texas psych legend -- and Roky Erickson cohort -- George Kinney will be making a very exclusive appearance in the lovely mid-Atlantic region for just one weekend. He will perform solo on Friday in DC, sharing the bill with Brandon Butler and Pagoda. Saturday will be solo at the Hollywood Grill in Richmond with the Flying Fugues. On Sunday at the wonderful True Vine record shop in Baltimore, Kohoutek will perform a set and then back Kinney for a few surprise tunes (I ain't tellin'!). Shelly Blake will open and may or may not do a set of mic'd antique phonographs.
For 13th Floor Elevators fans, this is an event not to be missed!
George Kinney East Coast Tour
Friday, March 11
Warehouse Next Door
1021 7th St NW
Washington DC
w/ Brandon Butler (ex-Canyon)
and Pagoda (mem. of Shortstack)
Saturday, March 12
The Hollywood Grill
South Pine St, Oregon Hill
Richmond VA
w/ The Flying Fugues
Sunday, March 13
True Vine Records
36th and Falls Road
Baltimore MD
w/
Shelly Blake and Kohoutek
Texas musician George Kinney will be appearing in Washington, Richmond, and Baltimore this weekend for an evening of storytelling and original music. He is a 2005 Texas Music Hall of Fame Nominee and also the creative force behind The Golden Dawn, who released the album
Power Plant in 1968 on the legendary International Artists recording label out of Houston. He is a childhood friend of Roky Erickson and Roky has been often quoted as saying that Power Plant was the best album ever produced by International Artists.
In the early 1970s, Kinney formed Pyramid Publishing Co. and published Erickson's first edition of "Openers". The manuscripts were smuggled out of the Maximum Security Ward at Rusk State Mental Institute for the Criminally Insane (where Erickson was incarcerated on a minor marijuana charge) by Kinney, in his boot, to avoid detection and possible confiscation.
In 1973, Kinney headed for Nashville and bought a house at the very spot where his car broke down. There, he was introduced to the legendary Johnny Cash, who was so impressed with his singing that he was given the lead part in a musical documentary being produced by Cash. For the past thirty years to the present, Kinney's musical appearances have been almost exclusively reserved for Terry Boothe's campfire concerts at his south Texas ranch in Bee Cave. In 1999, Kinney was persuaded to go back into the studio and the result was the critically acclaimed album
After The Fall.
In 2001, Kinney reformed the Golden Dawn with several original members and added guitar wizard Jerry Lightfoot. In the Spring of 2004, the band toured the US. The result of the tour is an excellent live recording,
The Legend of the Dawn, available now from Freedom Records, a component of the Texas Music Round Up, based in Austin.
Don't miss it!
Visit his Web site here:
http://www.georgekinney.com
