Sept. 15, Mon: Monster Monday Madness + Richard Bryant + Irving Louis Lattin + elbowtoe + James Margolis @ The Way Station

6pm- Monster Monday Madness:Poltergeist

8pm- Richard Bryant

Genre: Singer/songwriter

For fans of: Cash/Dylan/Waits/Earle/Hank

Richard Bryant drives his guitar down found highways, through lost hedges and back alleys, even straying way over in the Territory prowling for the odd chord or dying note that might give shape to some musical notion he’s taken. He found a minor sixth chord in Arkansas once, but traded it for a flat fiver on Staten Island. Prying ears might hear a Luther Perkins lick leaning into a jazz cliché, all propped up by Howlin’ Wolf’s kickstand, replete with rack harmonica chugging nervously like a Hummer waiting for a tune-up. For all that, the tunes are hummable. Bryant takes leave of the ordinary, except when the ordinary serves his purpose.

“#197 with a bullet!” according to Dave Miller’s ranking of “The Waltz of the Blue Devils” at nothingbutgoodthings.blogspot.com – top 300 songs of the 1990s – a tune Bryant created (seems like only) yesterday.

soundcloud.com/#richard-97-2

9pm- Irving Louis Lattin

Genre: Solo rhythm & blues/Soul artist

For fans of: Lou Rawls, Keb Mo & Bill Withers - guitar & vocals

Originally from Chicago, Illinois, I have been a full time professional musician for more than 30yrs. Vocalist on local & national tv & radio ads for Cover Girl, Modell’s sporting goods, Chevy trucks, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, etc...R&B is my specialty but I also do some classic pop & rock songs and am a sand leader & songwriter of my own music as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psRbNT36BZo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm_gZWwC_r4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDWq_bAraWg

10pm- elbowtoe

Genre: anti-folk, singer- songwriter, lyrical oddballery

For fans of: Regina Spektor, Bob Dylan, Elliott Smith, WHY?

Paul Weintrob is an anti-folk singer/songwriter who has been writing, performing, and recording his own material for over ten years. Troping diverse inspirations ranging from bluegrass to hip hop to punk rock, his band “elbowtoe” experiments in the overlap between pop music and performance art, with the aim of making his audiences question their role as spectators in the hopes of inspiring new creative work among strangers.

www.facebook.com/paulweintrob

www.paulweintrob.bandcamp.com

11pm- James Margolis

Genre: Blues, Jazz, Folk, Hip Hop

Recently moved to NYC, James is playing at as many places as he possibly can. A member of approximately a million bands, he is a collaborator, but mostly a songwriter.

www.jamesmargolis.bandcamp.com