Mike Dawson with Ted Russel Kamp & Sister Lucille

5739 South Campbell Avenue,Springfield MO 65810

16 July, 2022

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MIKE DAWSON & THE SMOKIN KILLS You may know Mike Dawson as the engineer/announcer and occasional joke teller for The Adam Carolla Show, one of the world’s most popular podcasts. Mike is also a prolific singer/songwriter and is bringing Rock & Roll back courtesy of his band The Smokin Kills and their new album The Last Honky Tonk Hero arriving August 25, 2021. This is Mike’s second full record. His first was recorded at Alan Parsons studio in Santa Barbara, California. Mike worked as a touring engineer for The Alan Parson Live Project on a few South American tours. One time he went swimming at Copa Cabana Beach in Rio and got violently ill. For this, he is legendary amongst the band and road crew. Mike was given his first guitar at 15. He took 3 lessons, learned 5 chords, and started writing and performing music. In the past 25 years, Mike has shared the stage with some of the greatest musicians in the world. But one time, he watched Hilary Swank and Chad Lowe walk out on his performance after hearing only one song. “I guess they didn’t like my music. They were certainly not entertained.” Mike Dawson is also the only one we know to share a joint with Jeff Bridges at Lebowski Fest while watching The Big Lebowski in the back row of The Wiltern Theater in LA. Mike Dawson is The Last Honky Tonk Hero. TED RUSSELL KAMP Ted Russell Kamp has been a professional bass player, singer songwriter and producer for the last 20 years. His music is a powerful true American gumbo of rock and roll, blues, country and singer/songwriter styles. Rolling Stone has called Kamp an MVP of the California Roots Music scene. Aside from being a singer/songwriter and artist in his own right and releasing 13 albums of original material, he has been a member of the Shooter Jennings band for over 15 years and recorded and played with countless other artists including Duff McKagan, Wilson Phillips, Jessi Colter, Marilyn Manson and many more. Ted also got his first Grammy in 2020 for playing bass on the Tanya Tucker’s record which won the Grammy for Country Music album of the year. Ted’s record Down In The Den, came out in July 2020 was featured in Rolling Stone Country, American Songwriter and on the Sirius XM Outlaw channel and debuted at #1 on the EuroAmericana Radio chart. Ted’s newest record Solitaire came out on May 7, 2021, received critical acclaim and also debuted at #1 on the Euroamericana Radio Chart. SISTER LUCILLE Hailing from Southwest Missouri and deeply inspired by the musical legacy of Memphis, Sister Lucille has turned the worlds of Blues, Roots and Soul on their collective head and created their own genre – Memphunk! The band’s musical genetics run wide and deep. From lead singer Kimberly Dill’s Opry debut at the Ryman Auditorium as a teenager, opening for the legendary Kitty Wells, to the band’s Beale Street debut in 2014, the Springfield, MO foursome breathes funk in to the Blues, stirs it with the soul of Gospel and tints it with an air of Country to forge a sound that’s distinctly American but universal in its appeal. Dill and Jamie Holdren (guitar/vocals) are both second-generation musicians, and their collective musical DNA is the fuel for Sister Lucille’s fire. Their 2019 debut album, Alive, clocked an astounding 22 straight months on the Top 50 Blues-Rock Album Chart, with all 11 songs hitting the Top 50 Blues-Rock Song Chart for multi-month runs, and finished the year at #10 on the 2020 Top 200 Year-End Blues-Rock Chart. Three songs from Alive became mainstays on SIrius/XM’s Bluesville, and the album won the 2020 Blues Blast Award for Best Debut CD, and also received three Independent Blues Award Nominations for Best New Artist CD, Best Soul-Blues Artist and Best Contemporary Blues Song. “Gone,” the follow-up single released by the band in late 2020, was featured in the January/February 2021 issue of Relix magazine and has garnered airplay on every top Blues radio program in the US, and is proof Sister Lucille’s patented Memphunk sound is here to stay.