Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart on Tour

Few husband-wife musical duos provide audiences with such a complete entertainment package as do Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart.

Based out of Tennessee, Earle and Stuart draw from blues, pop, country, rock, and more in their heartfelt music. The years of touring the Folk/Americana circuit (playing 170 concerts a year) and their combined experience formally in brother Steve’s “The Dukes”, have given them a knack for reaching out to the audience in an intimate “come in to my living room” fashion. So much so they reached out and enlisted the help of The House Concert Hub and Flyinshoes Review members and asked, if they could literally come into their living room for some dates on this mammoth tour. Heres what they had to say about the response. They tour in support of their brand new album, ” Dedication”.

They started the whole 50 date tour here in Scotland on April the 4th at The Rio Cafe for a Supper Celebration, with a lucky 30 fans in the most intimate surroundings possible, The Medicine Show was there here is the podcast.   They have added a North East date to their already busy Schedule – see House Concert website for details.

Stacey Earle acknowledges all our help with booking this tour:

“Mark and I would like to thank everybody on the House Concert Hub especially Rob Ellen for all the help filling our open dates on our upcoming UK/EURO 2012 Tour. We are now sitting at 50 shows in 60 days. Everyone was quick to help and offer dates, it was a challenge getting all the dates and Geographic’s coordinated but with the kind patience of everybody it all fell in place better than we could ever imaging or hoped for. Again THANK YALL ! From the bottom of hearts! The HUB is a true gift. And Rob you are pretty DARN special yourself. We look forward to meeting everyone when we arrive for our first show in Glasgow at the Rio Cafe April 4 2012.  Luuuuuuv, Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart”

“Shucks!” Rob Ellen.

Sara Petite on Tour

For Doghouse Rose, Sara left San Diego to record in Nashville with Eddie Gore; there are a few well-known names amongst the large cast of players (Kenny Vaughan on electric guitar, Harry Stinson from The Dukes on harmony vocals, amongst others) but Sara’s the star. She writes really good, melody-rich songs and she sings them in a distinctive voice that seems to spring from a happy soul. The sense of fun is always there, even in the more reflective and serious songs – as if being aware of the downbeat moments is just further confirmation of how good it is to be alive.

With the very fine drumming of William Ellis driving things along, there’s a lot of electric guitar (sometimes twangy, sometimes pure rock) being woven around Sara’s voice and it’s the spirit of her music that matters rather than any one player’s ego trip. All bar one of these thirteen songs is an original, with the one cover being Harlan Howard’s He Called Me Baby. Perhaps nothing quite tops the opening song, Magnolia; Sara’s vocal is unleashed and flying and the galloping interplay of guitars and dobro is guaranteed to put a smile on your face. It’s probably the highlight of the album for me, but the quality is high throughout, with a nice balance between the quieter numbers and the full tilt exuberance that she does so well. Overall this album probably just about tops its predecessor but I have to say that the song that still knocks me out is Dead Man Walking from Lead the Parade, a song that I reckon Steve Earle would be proud to call his own. Anyway, make sure you get to see her if she’s anywhere close over the next month or so and she’ll chase the last of those winter blues away for you.

Sara is playing three dates on the tour with The Medicine Show. Rob will be recording the Full Enchilada Glasgow Show for broadcast on The Medicine Show.

Source: Rob Ellen