SCOTT H. BIRAM and J.D. WILKES with Tyler Lance Walker Gill

1512 Portland Avenue,Louisville KY 40203

28 September, 2021

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SCOTT H. BIRAM with J.D. WILKES Live at PORTAL in the fifteenTWELVE Creative Compound 9/28/21 Come out to PORTAL at the fifteenTWELVE Creative Compound in Portland for a night boot-stomping and rafter-shaking with gritty, one man band, tour-de-force Scott H. Birham. Joining the fun is Paducah's own banjo playing mad man J.D. Wilkes. Doors Open at 7:00pm Performance from 8:00pm -11:00pm ABOUT SCOTT H. BIRAM Scott H. Biram unleashes a fervent display of conviction through, not only the genuine blues, classic country, bluegrass, and rock n roll, but he seals the deal with punk, heavy metal, and frankly, anything else he wants to. He’s The Dirty Old One Man Band. He will still the room with haunting South Texas blues, then turn it upside down, into a truck driver's mosh pit. Like he says, it might be baptism, or it might be murder, either way...you gonna see the light. His live shows, performed all over the world, deliver a take no prisoners attitude, a stomping, pulsing John Lee Hooker-channeling, and cockeyed tales of black water baptisms and murder, all while romanticizing the on-the-road lifestyle. ABOUT J.D. WILKES JD Wilkes is an American musician, visual artist, author, filmmaker and self-proclaimed "southern surrealist". He is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist (notably on harmonica and banjo), having recorded with such artists as Merle Haggard, John Carter Cash, Mike Patton, and Hank Williams III. Wilkes is perhaps best known as the founder of the Legendary Shack Shakers, a Southern Gothic rock and blues band formed in the mid 90s. Aside from his prolific career in music, Wilkes is also a published writer, having recently authored the book Barn Dances and Jamborees Across Kentucky, an exploration of his state’s social music and dance history based on extensive fieldwork and research. A true Southern Renaissance man, Wilkes is also an accomplished visual artist (specializing in comics, sideshow banners and book illustrations) as well as a documentary filmmaker (his documentary Seven Signs explores “music, myths, and the American South” and was screened at the UK’s prestigious Raindance Film Festival).