Willy Porter, Tom Green February 25, 2010

SPROUSE HOUSE PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS....

WILLY PORTER
WITH TOM GREEN

Thursday, February 25th
Live at Natasha's
112 Esplanade (Just before the Kentucky Theatre on Main St.)
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
$18 tickets

WILLY PORTER (Milwaukee, WI)
http://www.willyporter.com/

"How To Rob A Bank," the latest release from esteemed guitarist/singer-songwriter Willy Porter, showcases his continued growth as a songwriter and recording artist. Porter offers a rich blend of salt and sugar with tracks that move easily from rough-hewn electric edges into soulful irony with equal aplomb. Jeff Giles of Popdose.com says, "It's another solid entry in a discography full of them, and one of the smarter, more durable albums of grown-up music we're likely to get this year."

Having toured with artists as diverse as Jeff Beck and Tori Amos, Porter capitalizes on his experience as a seasoned live performer on How To Rob A Bank. World-renowned guitarist Greg Koch had this to say about Porter's new disc: "you get the same feeling listening to it as you do from one of his solo gig's...that you are in the presence of greatness..." Each song is a fresh cross-pollination of styles, genres and musical forms.

"Willy plays rhythms that make me want to crawl inside his guitar and sleep there forever."
— Tori Amos

"Thank goodness he doesn't play the flute."
— Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull

TOM GREEN (Lexington, KY)

Tom Green's show is a lively and engaging combination of musical creativity and lyric imagery- a rich variety of original songs in the styles of blues, pop, folk, rock, and country. His daughter says his writing is not too smart. A founder of Lexington's legendary Hatfield Clan, Tom later performed with Lee Carroll in Jazzbo, and with Nick Stump in The Saints. His songs have been themes in KET broadcasts and state tourism campaigns, and he was the featured solo performer at this year's WUKY Grapevine. Tom performs at The Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, and at venues throughout the region. "My experience with gigs is primarily from the standpoint of the frog." - TG

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