NOVEMBER 2011
Hola everyone!
Only three more Nashville-area gigs between now and the end of the year!
But first … I will be guest DJ on WSM 650 AM TODAY starting at 2:00 pm! I hope you’ll tune in, as I spin and talk about some of my favorite records! (To listen live via WSM’s website, click here.) I’ve been playing DJ at home all my life, but THIS will be my first time on real airwaves!
Will Kimbrough & Marshall
Then Wednesday, Nov. 16 Will Kimbrough and I will be at the Station Inn starting at 9pm. I can’t say enough good things about Will. His guitar work on my last album (Big Lonesome) took it to a whole ‘nother level. Will also writes great songs. (Click here to visit Will’s website.) We’ll be rockin’ first set. Then sit down and swap songs for the second. I plan to unveil some new ones, so come on down and be grooved and moved!
Looking ahead: Saturday, Nov. 26 (Thanksgiving weekend), I’ll be at the Bluebird Cafe for my annual post-tryptophan work-out show! It’s billed “An Evening with Marshall Chapman.” For more information, click here.
Now … I guarantee the following will jumpstart you into the Christmas spirit like nothing else. On Saturday, December 1, Matraca Berg, Lee Smith, Jill McCorkle, and I will play a benefit at the Belcourt Theater. All proceeds from this show go to The Center for Contemplative Justice. Whenever the four of us get together, the fun meter and hearts get broken, so mark your calendar! Click here for tickets.
Matraca, Marshall, Jill & Lee
After that, I’m off to Mexico. So if you’re South of the Border … maybe I’ll see you on December 3 at Philo’s in La Cruz (sitting in with Philo’s Mexican Shuffle Band) and/or December 8 at Nacho Daddy in Puerto Vallarta with Joe “King” Carrasco and his band.
Feliz Acción de Gracias a todos!
P.S. For all gig listings, click here.
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Marshall recommends …
the following books:
My Reading Life
Pat Conroy
Murder on Music Row
Stuart Dill
The Night Train
Clyde Edgerton
Solamente en San Miguel, Volume II
Jeanne Mills, editor
Mississippi: State of Blues
Photos by Ken Murphy, text by Scott Barretta
Flashback!
Summer of 1976 at the Ole Time Pickin’ Parlor (Nashville, TN )
left to right: Rick Sanjek, Cowboy Jack Clement, Marshall and Linda Hargrove
“All I remember about this photo is we were having a good time! I’m pretty sure that’s Bonnie Garner partially visible above Sanjek.”
Pearl Drop
Hummingbird Hall of Fame
Current inductees (friends who shared the October newsletter) are:
Thad Allen, Laura Hogan Bailey, Teresa Blackard, David Booker, Ruthanna Jolley Bost, Mike Bruce, Ann DuPre, Mary Alice Fann, Catherine Feeney, Katy Ginanni, Carol Golemon, Connie Greenwell, Karen Grubbs, Beverly Hill, Jim Hoehn, Brent Inman, Greta Joseph, Ann Kelly, Donald Kimrey, Janis McNeely, Megan Ratley, Jack Regan, Diana Revell, Ramcey Rodriguez, Hal Rosson, Garth Shaw, Kelson Slayman, Debby Solomon, Laurie Spezzano, Alvah Whealton, LeTricia Wilbanks and Art Young.
