Roswell Riverside Sounds: Eddie 9V
Schedule
Sat, 23 Jul, 2022 at 07:00 pm
Location
Riverside Park | Roswell, GA
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Roswell Riverside Sounds Concert SeriesFourth Saturday of the Month
May-October 2022, 7:00-9:00 PM
575 Riverside Road, Roswell, GA 30075
Join us at Riverside Park for Roswell's longest running, free, outdoor concert series focused on singer-songwriters and original artists.
All concert details at www.roswellriversidesounds.com
Beverages will be available at each concert courtesy of our sponsors Top Job Beverage and Events and Gate City Brewing Company, as well as various food and snack options (until sold out).
May 28: Emily Wolfe
June 25: J & the Causeways
July 23: Eddie 9V
August 27: Artist Announced June 20!
September 24: The Get Right Band
October 22: Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics
July 23: Eddie 9V
All his life, Eddie 9V (9-volt) has acted on instinct. Aged just 15, this old-soul artist turned away from the path of college and jobs to burst all guns blazing onto the roots and blues club circuit of his native Atlanta, Georgia. Flash forward to 2019, and for his debut album, Left My Soul In Memphis, the prodigious multi-instrumentalist simply powered up the amps in his mobile trailer and with his brother/co-writer/producer, Lane Kelly, laid down one of the year's breakout releases, acclaimed as "fresh and life-affirming" by Rock & Blues Muse. "Memphis was a total side project," shrugs Eddie, "that ended up taking off."
Now, released in 2021 on Ruf Records, Little Black Flies is the 25-year-old's most impulsive move to date. Tracked live in Atlanta's Echo Deco Studios through November 2020, once again with Lane turning the knobs, plus a who's who of the state's best musicians, it's an album that Eddie planned to feel like it's unfolding right in front of you – right down to the clink of bottles and loose studio banter. "I've seen a trend in modern recording," he says. "There's no soul. I took inspiration from Albert Collins, Otis Rush, Mike Bloomfield. All those great records were done live with their buddies and no overdubs. I wanted the playing to be spot-on – but even if we made a mistake, we kept going."
This record catches everything that went down at a session that felt more like a party, as Eddie leads the lineup through nine new songs – plus three classic covers – that retool the soul-blues genre on his own terms, reminding a new generation why this music hits so hard. Horns blast, drums rattle, slide guitars howl and at the heart of it all is Eddie's stinging guitar and unmistakable vocal, the bandleader thrilling us one minute with his soul-man holler, then spinning story songs like he's sat on the next barstool.
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