Rosie Flores; Marti Brom; Zoe Muth & the Lost High Rollers

Rockabilly legend ROSIE FLORES will dig into the songs on “Working Girl’s Guitar,” her latest album that marks the first time she has handled all production and guitar duties. Minus the textures offered by other players, this is Flores honed down to a pure rock ’n’ roll essence. “It’s simply just me, my sound,” she says. “It’s even new to me.”

As for the title song, it was written by Austin, Texas, songwriter Ritchie Mintz. Flores had sold him one of her well-worn but loved guitars. He took one look and said, “This is no wallhanger; this is a working girl’s guitar.” The next day Flores was surprised when he returned with the song in hand. “He said ‘Your guitar loves you so much, it wrote you a song’,” Flores recalls, with a laugh. “And it was the coolest song anyone had ever written for me. It totally fits who I am.”  http://rosieflores.com/

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Flores' pal MARTÍ BROM is internationally acclaimed for her hard-driving rockabilly and sultry traditional country vocals. Her's is a hard-hitting songbook that offers a tip of the hat to the rich legacy of roots rock, hard-core country, rock n roll, and rockabilly music. http://www.martibrom.com/

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Whether nailing an upbeat honky-tonk tune or a slow, sad story-song, ZOE MUTH'S music is so honest and familiar, you'll wonder why you haven't heard it yet. Her self-titled, self-released debut won attention not only from her hometown (Seattle Weekly dubbed her "our own Emmylou"; tastemaker blog Sound on the Sound called her "without doubt, one of the finest songwriters in Seattle") it also earned praise from the worldwide press. The record landed on No Depression's annual Reader's Poll as one of the Top 50 Albums of 2009, while Modern Acoustic magazine called her 2010's "New Artist of the Year." 



On its follow-up, Starlight Hotel (produced by Muth and Martin Feveyear at Seattle's Jupiter Studios), you can almost feel the wheels turning under the pickup truck. Picture an old country road, flat land on either side and a whole lot of nothing out the window. The mood of the music – and Muth's narrative lyrics – captures a stark honesty that recalls some of the finest country classics. In fact, there's so much spirit of Merle and Hank in these tunes (sung in an earnest tone reminiscent of Iris DeMent), it's easy to forget they were actually realized in the lush green of western Washington State. 
 http://zoemuth.com/index.html

 Admission is $15