Schedule - Tuesday, SEPTEMBER 9, 2003
SEPT 2 | SEPT 9 | SEPT 16 | SEPT 23 | SEPT 30
Billy Block's Western Beat is EVERY Tuesday Night at Exit/In - 2208 Elliston Place, Nashville, TN

Baker Maultsby

 Baker Maultsby - 8 pm
In the history of recorded Rock and Roll, there may be no album quoted in both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal to sell fewer copies than Baker Maultsby’s Bingo=Sin. But the chorus from Maultsby’s song “Four Wal Marts,” co-written with Nashvillian Peter Cooper, has been quoted in both venerable publications. The song is a somewhat warped but apt take on their hometown of Spartanburg, SC and the rest of the evolving South, a land increasingly taken over by theme restaurants, cookie-cutter subdivisions and “strip malls on both sides of the street, asphalt on top of concrete.” While Maultsby has yet to record another album, he and Cooper continue to write songs, including “She Makes the Livin” a look at every man’s idea of domestic bliss, and their commentary-set-to-country on post-Grunge modern rock, “Nirvana Was Better Than Pearl Jam” (how true!).


David Ezell
 David Ezell - 8:30 pm
David Ezell is one of the many who have walked these streets and lived this life: the Nashville songwriter. He lived here from 1987-1992. These were creatively fruitful years for Ezell, who earned the respect of such lauded songwriters as David Olney and
Bill Lloyd (who penned a song with Ezell). But like many, he found industry backing just out of reach. Ezell was told his music "lacked focus," a problem, apparently, for radio formats, but a trait appreciated by Ezell's admirers. Ezell identifies Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and Leonard Cohen as his “big three" influences. But the range of his sound doesn't stop there. He is a master of the four-minute pop song, ala Elvis Costello and Marshall Crenshaw, and is equally adept at Byrds-style country. Ezell now lives in Spartanburg, where his music roots run deep. He's excited to make this return to Nashville, as he recalls fondly “the community of songwriters who supported me...My memories of those times are with these folks."

Marshall Chapman

Marshall Chapman - 9:00 pm
Marshall Chapman was born and raised in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She has released eight critically acclaimed albums with songs recorded by Emmylou Harris, John Hiatt, Jimmy Buffett and Jessi Colter. She has toured extensively with everybody from John Prine and Jimmy Buffett to Jerry Lee Lewis and The Ramones. In 1994, Marshall recorded It's About Time... - a live concert at the Tennessee State Prison for Women. It drew rave reviews and Marshall and The Love Slaves spent the rest of the year touring with Buffett. Afterwards, they went in the studio and recorded Love Slave. "We're all slaves to something," Marshall says, "....might as well be love!" In 1998, Marshall began exploring new outlets for her creativity. One was theater. She and Matraca Berg contributed fourteen songs to Good Ol' Girls, a new musical. Also this fall, be on the lookout for Marshall's first book. It's called Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller and a companion CD will be available.
www.tallgirl.com

Charlie Robison

Charlie Robison - 9:30-10:30 pm
There are two places Maverick singing/ songwriting/storytelling Texan Charlie Robison is most comfortable: his family ranch in Bandera deep in the Texas hill country and on any stage performing his raucous, cross-cut brand of rockin’, stompin’ country with an in-your-face orneriness that has both set him apart from the crowd and made him something of a lightning rod. And one of his favorite haunts is the famed Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, where he and his tight band The Enablers camped out for two nights recently to record Charlie Robison Live. Charlie is at his best, at his most sarcastic, at his most irreverent – having the time of his life. The 16 cuts cover six from his Step Right Up cd, another half-dozen from Life of the Party, a handful of Charlie’s faves and one new studio cut. Don’t miss Charlie LIVE!
www.charlierobison.com
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