House Party

We'd like to invite you to join us at our house on Friday night, June 19 for an evening with David Peterson, one of the most powerful and moving voices in bluegrass and country music today. For fans of bluegrass music, Peterson is probably best known as leader of his traditional bluegrass band, David Peterson & 1946. A fixture in the Nashville music scene, the insiders there rave about Peterson's unique style and his respect for traditional music. It's not unusual to find him playing shows around Nashville with country music A-team players like pedal steel master Paul Franklin, fiddle legend Bobby Hicks or banjo wizard Charlie Cushman.

You can hear his bluegrass recordings played frequently on XM/Sirius Radio's bluegrass channel but more recently, David released a traditional country recording called Comin' On Strong, which is earning rave reviews. Mike Auldridge told me that it's the the best country album he's heard in many years and I have to agree. David was joined on the recording by the likes of Franklin, Buddy Emmons and the late John Hughey (who played with Conway Twitty and Vince Gill, in one of Hughey's last recording sessions). Strongly influenced by Jimmy Rodgers and Hank Williams, Peterson is one of those inside secrets in Nashville that we hear about from time to time, appreciated most by those "in the know" and heard about by the rest of us all too infrequently.

It's been written about David that "with a voice that could carry across mountain tops and a rare emotional power steeped in the blues, singer, songwriter and bandleader David Peterson has carved out his own special niche in Country and Americana music. In a time when country music has been hollowed out by mass-market radio and invaded by 80s rock stars, Peterson's profound respect for the bona fide tradition has created a refuge where the sounds and spirit of the Ryman-era Grand Ole Opry sing with the lungs of a young man. Something precious and endangered gets a fresh lease on life when Peterson performs.

"David is best known for founding and fronting 1946, a locomotive of a bluegrass band that's about as close to experiencing Bill Monroe's original Blue Grass Boys as you can hear in this lifetime. But on his new solo album, Comin' On Strong, Peterson pursues the closely-related country music from the same era, the yearning, steel-drenched honky tonk and raw-boned hillbilly sounds you would have heard on the AM radio between the 1940s and the 1960s, right next to Bill Monroe or the Stanley Brothers."

This is a rare trip for David to this part of the country and an even rarer opportunity to hear one of the purest voices in country and bluegrass music in an intimate, solo setting. Don't miss what is sure to be an evening of terrific music. Details below!