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Great Heart / Eli Winter / Cameron Knowler at Top Ten Records


Top Ten Records

Thursday December 20th
store opens at noon
event starts at 7:30p
music start at 8p
$10, no one turned away for lack of funds 
BYOB 

Great Heart 
https://www.dallasobserver.com/music/dallas-andrew-moss-of-great-heart-talks-the-sunshine-machine-10680724
https://greatheart1.bandcamp.com/releases


Eli Winter
eliwinter.bandcamp.com

Winter is a songwriter and guitarist from Houston, Texas. Since releasing his first single Take No Notice/Woodlawn Waltz on Impossible Colors last year, he's wowed musicians and audiences alike on all manner of guitars, most recently on a summer tour of the East Coast and Midwest with Evan Morgan and the Fossil Lickers. His first full-length record, The Time To Come, is forthcoming on Blue Hole Recordings, featuring rollicking 6-string jaunts, sweeping 12-string epics and a healthy serving of improvisation.
Quotes: "If I didn't see it for myself I would've sworn there were multiple guitars playing" -- Melanie Cohodes
"When you start going on tour you're going to get so tight it'll be unreal" -- Daniel Bachman
"Absolutely sensational" -- Mark Ward, 2SER
Video (live at the Random Tea Room in Philadelphia; filmed by Jesse Sheppard): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gqRNZPihrQ
Interview with Polyfonik: https://polyfonikmag.com/2018/01/09/interview-eli-winter-425-degrees/
photo by Jana Hunter

Cameron Knowler
cameronknowler.com

Bio: Cameron Knowler studies jazz guitar at the University of Houston, and has already established himself as an accompanist in multiple contexts: jazz with the Hayden Jones Trio, folk with Thomas Csorba, and old time music with The Fossil Lickers. On New & Old, he offers a selection of traditional folk songs and original compositions for guitar and banjo, from which the record derives its name. Knowler knows his stuff, playing a lesser-known variant of “Chinquapin Hunting,” a rollicking medley of “Mountain Dew & Blackberry Blossom,” and even learning “Nancy Blevins” from source fiddler Alfred Hash. He’s reverent, but not deferential: these performances are “raw” by design, trading the sterility that can easily befall flatpicking records for warmth. Knowler’s own “Mint & Milk,” for example, suggests the melodic richness of Nic Jones, while “Chinquapin Hunting” or “Billy in the Lowground” convey vibrancy and muscularity. And Knowler’s stunningly beautiful take on “Kenny Smith’s Cumberland Gap” will leave you speechless. It’s for this that he’s regarded as one of the best flatpickers in the state, learning from tradition while looking ahead. This record is proof. 

Quotes: “ Everything flows beautifully from moment to moment” — Tyler Wilcox 
Video (filmed with Mark Lewis in West Texas): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WPirQei8Mw

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