Ponderosa Stomp Insane Rock n Soul comes to Jersey and Brooklyn Sat. July 14 & Sun July 15/I want it to come to my town

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ga4mM01SeE

http://www.knights-maumau.com/pool/

this is my dad's favorite music. every so often, late at night, i hear Roy Head and Bobby Patterson blasting from his little studio room.

he has a broken ankle right now, unfortunately. he totally would have gone to the hoboken show.

What an awesome house band...

I'm working on convincing a local booking agent to try to bring this revue to DC since I can't ever seem to make it to any of these shows elsewhere.

Did any of you Nu Yorkers and Joisy folks go?

Maybe not.

i went to mccarren. loooooved roy head, sad that his set was so short. second time i've seen tami lynn this yr; she was ok. liked tommy mclain, who i'd never heard of, though his backing band (yo la tengo) was, um, not good. i'm assuming they didn't rehearse so i'm not blaming them. but following a stax house band, they sounded maybe a half step above inept. tommy is an old guy with gandalfian white hair who has an amazing, kinda laid-back, pop voice, and tells an awesome story about the bullet points of his life over the past 40 or so years, which involves quite a bit of indulging. making it all the more amazing that his voice remains intact. i guess ray sharpe was the guy the a-bones backed (and ira kaplan sat in on a more than passable electric piano), and the a-bones were damn good and roy seemed good, but i was ponderosa'd out by that point so it's hard to say. there are some amazingly talented dodgeball players in williamsburg, i'll say that.

the audience was underwhelming in size but that might just be because the pool is so effing big, and they made up for it with enthusaism and dancing. it might also be that old people and williamsburg aren't a great match.

couldn't get away from work or I definitely would have been there.

Brooklyn was pretty fun, esp for free. Tommy McClain fitting entire resume and redemption in the bridge = awsum. Size of crowd = insufficient "ya hadda be there" boasting rights snob appeal.

Roy Head kinda looks like Roger Corman film veteran Dick Miller on karaoke night.

So Teenie Hodges and I are on the same plane. Does ILX have any burning questions for the man? Answer quick - we're about to have to shut off all electronic devices.

Uh, ask him about co-writing "Take Me to the River" (although he's probably been asked that a million times, and he will tell the flight personnel to make this person stop bothering him)

Oops, that was probably too late (unless you have already landed in the same airport and you are following him).

2012-- in NYC. Not the Stomp but...

Saturday, August 11

29th Annual Roots of American Music Festival

Noon – Stoned Soul Symposium

Author Michele Kort leads a panel on the work of Laura Nyro. Professor Gayle Wald presents a talk on the landmark Soul at the Center festival that took place 40 years ago at Lincoln Center. Cultural critic Greg Tate moderates a panel on the legacy of Gil Scott-Heron, his collaboration with Brian Jackson, and more.

Sponsored by Toyota. Presented in association with the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Roots of American Music is presented in association with the Ponderosa Stomp Foundation.

5 pm – Damrosch Park Bandshell

The Triple Goddess Twilight Revue - Celebrating The Music of Laura Nyro

featuring Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash of Labelle, Desmond Child & Rouge,Felix Cavaliere and more.

Otis Clay & the Platinum Band

7:30 Soulful Songwriters Circle: Dan Penn, Teenie Hodges and William Bell

8:45 Otis Clay and the Platinum Band

The Roots of American Music Festival is presented in association with the Ponderosa Stomp Foundation.

Sunday, August 12

29th Annual Roots of American Music Festival

12 noon – 5:30 p.m. Hearst Plaza

Erin McKeown & Her Fine Parade

Taylor Mac

Tom Paxton

Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird

Pura Fé Trio

6:00 p.m. Damrosch Park Bandshell

Swamp Dogg

7:00 pm Aloe Blacc

8:15 pm Pardon Our Analysis: An All-Star Gathering for Gil Scott-Heron

Performed by Black Rock Coalition Orchestra and guests

LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Artistic Director

Featuring Brian Jackson, Sapphire, Martha Redbone, Abiodun Oyewole, Sandra St. Victor, Carl Hancock Rux, A. Van Jordan, Gordon Voidwell, Hanifa Walidah, and Willie Perdomo.

Pardon Our Analysis is presented in collaboration with the Black Rock Coalition and Poetry Society of America in cooperation with the Estate of Gil Scott-Heron

The Roots of American Music Festival is presented in association with the Ponderosa Stomp Foundation