CARRIE ELKIN & DANNY SCHMIDT

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Appropriately (ironically?) enough, on Thanksgiving Day, this will be the last Gilded Palace of Sin show. After nine years of promoting the best in Americana and alt.country shows we've chosen the biggest holiday in the American calendar to call it a day. We're very happy that - before we leave - we get a chance to host CARRIE ELKIN.

Carrie first came to my attention in March 2008, via a CD package from Medicine Music (based way up in Inverness, but omnipresent in cool Americana circles). Hers was a new name on me, but I noted the mention of Devon Sproule in the press release. Carrie (and Danny) are both friends of Devon (and Paul Curreri), having spent time on the Charlottesville scene where the Sproule-Curreris are based. Nine months after first hearing the album, Jeopardy made #3 on the Festive Fifteen 2008 (the full list, if you're interested, is here: http://www.thegildedpalaceofsin.com/pages/festive08.html)

Why so besotted? Obadiah, Questions About Angels, Black Lung, Roots And Wings- the list of great songs on this record goes on and on. After almost two years, Jeopardy of Circumstance album is (honestly) shaping up to be one of my favourite records of all time. And while we're at bold claims...

... there are many reviews comparing DANNY SCHMIDT to people like TOWNES VAN ZANDT and LEONARD COHEN. Normally, such claims can be taken with a pinch of salt (especially as I'm not particularly a fan of Laughing Lenny) but Danny's an engaging lyricist and guitarist - less inclined to wallow (oh, I can hear the Cohen fans sharpening their knives already!). I have yet to see Danny play 'live', but everyone I know who has done so raves about his enigmatic performances. His Parable and Primes album was a favourite of some years back and new release, Instead The Forest Rose To Sing, is something special too.

There are a bunch of tunes for you to download at both Carrie and Danny's websites - and you can, of course, pick up full albums at the show. For once I shall let the music do the talking'

Link to Carrie�s songs: http://www.carrieelkin.com/Music.html
Link to Danny�s songs: http://www.dannyschmidt.com/media.html

NOTE: Carrie will open the show with a �solo� set, joined at times by Danny. He will then perform his own set, and will likewise be joined by Carrie. Expect live music to start around 8.30pm. Gilded Palace classics on the Jukebox of Misery before, betwixt and after the stage antics.

Right, I'll get me coat.

Scorcher Shane (2003-2009)
- and on behalf of -
My Good Self (2001-2005)
Tom Sheriff (2001-2006)

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