Moe's Alley Presents: Rob Leines w/ Steven Griswold & His California Convoy

Name: Moe's Alley Presents: Rob Leines w/ Steven Griswold & His California Convoy
Start: 2025-04-24T20:00:00-07:00
Location: Moe's Alley, Santa Cruz

Schedule

Thu, 24 Apr, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Moe's Alley, Santa Cruz | Capitola, CA

Moe's Alley presents the return of Rob Leines with special guests Steven Griswold & His California Convoy!
Thursday, April 24th
Doors: 7pm / Show: 8pm
$15 in advance / $20 day of the show
21+
ROB LEINES
"I'm burning down the interstate," Rob Leines sings halfway through Headcase, an album that finds the road warrior occupying the intersection of blue-collar rock & roll and outlaw country. Pulling triple duty as a songwriter, southern storyteller, and modern-day guitar hero, Leines fills his third album with tales from the fast lane, punctuating each song with amplified riffs and a voice sharpened by a heavy touring schedule. The result is a record for dive bars and dance halls, for highways and honky-tonks, for wheels that spin and and horizons that linger just out of reach.
Before recording Headcase with co-producers Mike Harmeier (the longtime frontman of Silverada, formerly known as Mike and the Moonpies) and Adam Odor, Leines quit his longtime job as a welder and hit the road in support of 2021's Blood Sweat and Beers. That record became his breakthrough release, earning Leines a year's worth of gigs with marquee acts like Dwight Yoakam and The Mavericks. Night after night, he hit the stage with his power trio, mixing rock & roll bang with Telecaster twang. Recorded between shows, Headcase captures that live chemistry with songs that dig beneath the blacktop for stories about love lost, chances taken, and life lived between the mile markers.
STEVEN GRISWOLD & HIS CALIFORNIA CONVOY
My bud, Steve Griswold asked me if I would write a brief bio of him for PR purposes.
Steve is one of the finest singer-songwriters..persons...I have ever met...My version is totally unlike what you would find in a package with 8x10 glossies, so Steve probably can't use it, but I have a need to share it here with y’all, for your own good.
Steven N. "Griz" Griswold, no relation to Clark, was, as I think, born and raised, as I know, in Northern California. OK — mid-motherlode country, Sierra foothills. Good place to start. He was from day one a great kid. Athletic. A winner: He was a Champ kid Midget Car racer even though he was not a midget. He grew up straight and strong, but
— then he experimented with the dark side. He learned to almost play the guitar, and decided to become a punk musician.
At age 19, punk that he was, he was headlining (Saturday night, no less) at The Catalyst, a world-renowned club in Santa Cruz, CA, in a band called "Three Left Standing." When he realized the band outnumbered the audience (just joking) he determined to adapt himself to something more civilized, more evolved, more country, to wit: Cow Punk. This led him to Woody Guthrie and Jimmy Rodgers, and all the real cow punks.
He got that down, then he wanted to be a honky-tonker, and write slice-of-life songs of his own, and play music in bars, and have a band. It wasn't egoism, or damn foolishness, just a great need you get to do something you are good at. He is currently a honky tonk musician/band leader par excellence. Maybe better even than that midget car racer:
Great songs, great vocals, great dialog... Griz is a bona fide goodern.
Larry Hosford
Aka Lorenzo