Back from our Summer hols, having had a restful time witnessing the exertions of Team GB from the exhausting heat of Istanbul; team B&B is delighted to bring you news of our September 9th Amnesty International fundraiser!
If you haven't yet booked your tickets, now is the time to do so, only 50 are available for pre-sale, and they're going fast! Your ticket not only gets you access to a night featuring live performances from the majestic Tim Wells and the peerless Ralgh Long & the Primary 3, you will also get to see SID GRIFFIN:
Sid Griffin is perhaps best known as the
leader of alt-country founders the Long Ryders back in the 1980s in Los
Angeles.
Since those heady days Sid has written four
books; Gram Parsons: A Musical Biography (1985), Bluegrass Guitar: Know The
Players, Play The Music (2005), Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, The Band &
the Basement Tapes (2007) and Shelter From The Storm: Bob Dylan’s Rolling
Thunder Years (2010). In addition Sid wrote for BAM, the L.A. Times, German
Rolling Stone, Gosh!, spent ten years writing for Q, wrote for Mojo starting
with issue two, has authored several late night BBC Radio 2 specials including
a memorable one on The Carter Family which was narrated by Dolly Parton
(!), and he also did the research,
interviews and wrote the script for the Warner Bros/BBC TV documentary Gram
Parsons: Fallen Angel.
In 2002 he flew to Florence, Italy to
received the Piero Ciampi Award for service to the arts, accepting the award on
national radio. He is a native of Kentucky, a graduate of the University of
South Carolina and now lives in Camden Town, north London. He has compiled and
annotated over forty collections, anthologies or reissues for various record
labels such as Rhino, Warner Bros, Universal and PolyGram, perhaps most notably
Flying High, the well-received collection by his old friend Gene Clark (the
Byrds, Dillard & Clark).
Sid Griffin is a raconteur, a solo performer
of note with two solo CDs out, a mandolinist with “alt-bluegrass” heroes the
Coal Porters, the resident musicologist on BBC 6 Music’s Radcliffe &
Maconie Show and a political junkie of the first order. He has no chemical
dependencies and is a vegetarian.
Sid will be telling us stories about Bob Dylan and singing us some songs. We can't wait to see you there!
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