Mother's Boys Play Virginia City

78 N C Street,Virginia City NV 89440

24 July, 2021

Description

Mother’s Boys is a ensemble of three talented musicians who have come together to play some of the great songs of the Carter Family! Mother’s Boys is a ensemble of three extremely talented veteran musicians who have come together to play some of the great songs of the Carter Family, the trio from the Clinch Mountain area of Virginia, who took the world of country music by storm in the late 1920’s, 1930’s and early 1940’s. Songs like You’ve Been a Friend to Me, Keep on the Sunny Side, Will the Circle Be Unbroken, and many others, live on today, and this quartet has done a wonderful job performing some of these songs on last year’s recording, Home Among the Hills: a Musical Tribute to the Carter Family. The album includes guest appearances by Moira Smiley, Fred Sokolow, Susie Glaze, Laurie Lewis and Aubrey Richmond, so it is quite a production. We’ll be treated to Mother’s Boys’ fine vocals and harmonies, plus their most excellent instrumental skills, with Peter Feldmann on mandolin and guitar, Rick Cunha on guitar, and David Jackson on bass. Peter performed at the Red Dog first as a member of the house band the Scraggs Family in 1967. He returned with the Scraggs for Red Dog's 50th anniversary in 2015 and again to take part of Redgrass with the Very Lonesome Boys. He is not only a widely known and respected musician and singer, but he is very knowledgeable historian who has written about old time, bluegrass, and folk music in general. We are very happy to welcome him back. Rick Cunha, a very fine vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist, who has worked with Mason Williams, the Smothers Brothers, Emmylou Harris, and many others, he performed with Peter at Redgrass. He spends most of his time these days working for others in his recording studio and his appearances are far too scarce. We’re delighted to bring him back! David Jackson is an bass player extraordinaire, and he has worked with Hoyt Axton, Van Dyke Parks, John Denver, Jackson Browne, and many others. He performed in our series with the group New West, some years ago. These three fine musicians do a great job of celebrating the music of the Carter Family. Don’t miss the chance to hear them! Hidden away in Virginia City, a place known for mining, ghost stories and Mark Twain, sits one of the most  influential landmarks of the psychedelic era in the 1960s, the Red Dog Saloon.When it opened in June of 1965, the Red Dog Saloon became the provenance of much of what and who we know of the San Francisco sound, the counterculture musical phenomenon that dominated the decade.