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Jonathon Byrd

0	BIRMINGHAM: Kitchen Garden Cafe
P	Tuesday 13th June, 2017
N	7:30pm

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Jonathon Byrd is “one of the top 50 songwriters of the last 50 years” (Chicago Tribune). He grew up singing in the Southern Baptist church, where his father preached and his mother played piano. After four years in the Navy, he returned to home to play in rock bands. It was at an old-time fiddle festival in the mountains of southwest Virginia where his writing began to change. Assimilating the sounds of southern traditional music, Byrd wrote new songs in an ancient style.

“This rootsy North Carolinian may be the most buzzed-about new songwriter in folkdom. He displays John Prine’s gift for stark little songs that tell big, complex stories, Guy Clark’s lean melodicism, Lyle Lovett’s wry mischief, and Bill Morrissey’s knack for the revealing image.” (Boston Globe).

Don’t miss Jonathan’s return to the Kitchen Garden, once again with his Pickup Cowboy, Johnny Waken.