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Hello. Sean Koehler and Michael Campagna had asked be to do a Blues show. Well I thought about it and figured if I did a show like that it would have to be a Stanky low down free form blues, no frat boy light beer drinking blues. so here is the deal, the first part of the show will be some solo acoustic CS Gray songs, then add some Jim Duffy on piano. Part two will be “No Lucky Horse” for the rest of the show, this should be hot sweaty fun.
We have a lot of Birthday’s in July, Maria, Pam, Stacy and Stephanie. Let’s make this a Birthday Blues blow out and give these girls the party they deserve! Oh let’s not forget Charlie! Did I miss anyone, let me know.

Here is the way Jim Duffy described this show, I think his words nailed it.

Something a little different — my good friend Chris Gray, a.k.a. C.S. Gray, will be playing two sets on Friday evening, July 22, at Banjo Jim’s in the East Village. He asked me to fill in on bass guitar, and I was delighted to say yes.

Chris and I go way back. Back in the early 1990s, we co-founded the band Martin’s Folly. Before anyone ever heard the term “roots rock,” we started writing songs that portrayed what we liked best about the American music we loved. That was the pre-Internet, pre-download era, so we were more or less working in the dark. We made three albums that were produced byEric “Roscoe” Ambel, and for five or six years we played in the New York clubs, up and down the East Coast, and out to Cleveland, Chicago, Nashville, Asheville and points in between.

After I veered off into instrumental music, Chris took … Read the rest