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Larry Keel Experience

  September 23, 2016 9:00 PM

Doors Open: 8:00 PM
Advance Price $12 Day of/Door Price $15

Flatpicking guitar phenom Larry Keel dazzles music-lovers once more with his 15th self-released album Experienced, due out February 26, 2016. The album is an entirely original work that showcases both Larry's and bandmate Will Lee's exceptional songwriting, singing and jaw-dropping instrumental performances, accompanied by Keel's equally talented wife Jenny Keel on upright bass and harmony vocals. It was recorded at Wally Cleaver Studio in Fredericksburg, VA with engineer (and guest drummer) Jeff Covert and mastered by the award-winning industry great Bill Wolf (Willie Nelson, Tony Rice, Doc Watson) in Arlington, VA. Added to the raw sophistication of Keel's progressive acoustic style are several guest-musician-friends who appear on various tracks of Experienced, a list of artists that reads like a 'Who's Who' of icons and new stars including Sam Bush, Del McCoury, Peter Rowan, Keller Williams, Jason Carter (The Del McCoury Band), Mike Guggino (Steep Canyon Rangers), and Anders Beck (Greensky Bluegrass). According to Larry, "This project is a collection of my songs and Will Lee's music, developed further with the amazing talents of some of our musician friends and heroes. Very real. Very fresh." The seven tracks on Experienced reflect Keel's musical personality, from frenzied and raunchy to mystical and sensitive, and through it all, Keel's honest attitude shines, fearlessly and with throttle wide-open. As Sam Bush (who plays mandolin and fiddle on the fiery opening track "Ripchord") says, 'Enjoy the music... Larry does!" "'Lil Miss" follows up with a cynical gibe at a mock Miss Prim and not-so-proper young lady of modern day society, set to a down and dirty blues-rock riff. "Larry Keel is a triple threat... songwriter, guitar player, entertainer. He can do it all," says Del McCoury, who is featured on the playful and rollicking "'Fill em Up Again" along with Carter and Guggino. "I think what makes Larry so powerful is that he has lived his songs, he's not sitting in a room trying to write the hit of the week, he's writing what's in his heart and on his mind." "I love me some Keels. There is a certain genuine authenticity that Larry and Jenny possess," says Keller Williams. "When we get together, our wonder-powers unite to form a giant, impenetrable sphere of open-minded, Appalachian psychedelic goodness." Appropriately, Keller plays on the swelling and rolling "Miles and Miles," which is a sort of metaphoric travel log of life on the road as a musician (and as a human being)... the key being to stay true to one's own 'voice'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r3M2Aj_FMo

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