Live At Five with Randall Bramblett (CD Release Party with New West Records) September 18, 2008

For the second year in a row, The Georgia Music Hall of Fame is bringing its “Live at Five” performance series to Atlanta with a series of five Thursday evening performances by well-known and rising Georgia musicians beginning Aug. 28. Performances will take place at 5 p.m. at the Hard Rock Café at the intersection of Peachtree Street and International Boulevard in the heart of downtown. Admission is $5, with proceeds benefiting MIKE, the museum’s Music in Kids’ Education program.

The Sept. 18 event features Randall Bramblett.

Arguably the ultimate “team player” in American rock/blues/soul music, the Jesup Ga.-born Randall Bramblett has made himself so valuable as a singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter for other artists that his solo work has too often gotten short shrift. A fluent master of piano, organ and saxophones—and with a distinctive vocal rasp that oozes R&B/soul tradition—Bramblett boasts a top-drawer resume that traces the Southern rock lineage (Gregg Allman, Sea Level, Gov't. Mule, Widespread Panic), adding side trips into blues/R&B (John Hammond, Francine Reed, Johnny Jenkins), alt-rock (Vigilantes of Love) and rock icons (Steve Winwood, Levon Helm) along the way.

Official Website: http://www.georgiamusic.org/events.php