Corinne West & Kelly Joe Phelps April 8, 2011

Corinne West & Kelly Joe Phelps
Friday April 8
Lark Theater
549 Magnolia Ave. Larkspur
Doors 8:30 Show 9

Putting aside their respective solo careers, Corinne West and Kelly Joe Phelps have joined forces to form a perfectly complimentary working partnership, a decision that seemed destined to happen. A good sixteen years as a respected solo singer and guitarist, Kelly Joe found time last year to work alongside Californian singer-songwriter Corinne West, active on the music scene for the relatively shorter period of just six years, but a period packed with creativity nonetheless.

During her productive solo career, Corinne has maintained a keen ear for great guitarists to accompany her songs and in Kelly Joe Phelps, she has found not only a first rate musician but a sort of kindred spirit, whose understanding of her songs is evident on this recording as in live performance, where the duo often disappear into their own empathetic universe.

Undoubtedly one of the finest slide guitarists around, Kelly Joe inexplicably laid down his bottleneck some time ago in favour of flat pick playing and has subsequently re-invented himself as a first rate flat pick guitarist. MAGNETIC SKYLINE was recorded live-off-the-floor with just two guitars and two voices and by the duo's own admission the recordings were done very quickly and therefore presumably was considered a stopgap recording until time could be found to write and record their own album of new material. The quality of the performances here however, in anyone else's hands, would be considered a masterpiece. Allan Wilkinson

Here are a few beautiful tunes to listen to.. Whiskey Poet / Mother to Child / Lily Ann

$20 General Admission $25 Day of Show

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