Filmed at Banjo Jim's (the premier Roots Music club in New York) in East Greenwich Village, NY. New Song of Freedom is the second video from the upcoming Train Wreck Records release 'New Songs of Freedom' due out on June 10th.
VIDEO - DANCE WITH A HOLE IN YOUR SHOE
The first video from New Songs of Feedom, the stunning "Dance With a Hole In Your Shoe". Filmed at New York City's premier Roots Music club Banjo Jim's in the East Village. Filmed, produced and edited by Bill Hurley.
The former front man for the 70’s powerhouse Duke and the Drivers,
Jo Lily has assembled a quintet of some of Boston’s most respected and
heralded sidemen to form The Mystix, Boston’s best unknown export
since Dropkick Murphys. The formula is pretty simple...take guitar
legend Bobby Keyes, put him in front of one of the most precise rhythm
sections on the east coast, Marty Richards and Marty Ballou (The M&M
Brothers) mix in the keyboards of Tom West...wait, we need a singer,
maybe another axe...the Dylanesque grit and credibility of Jo Lily ought
to work. “Damn! I want to hear that band.” The resulting Blue Morning
is everything you imagine it could be. Something for everyone as long
as everyone includes ‘real’ music people who don’t compromise on the
quality of their music. You probably know a few of them, or you are one
yourself. This record is for you. We sat down with the band’s founder
and co-producer Jo Lily to talk about music, history and his new band. Click here to read the interview...
Roger Salloom started his life and career in Worcester where he first studied banjo at 13 years old. He was influenced then by Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Geoff Muldaur, Woody Guthrie, Sonny Boy Williamson, Jimmy Reed, the singing brakeman, Jimmy Rodgers and the Kingston Trio. At 19 he was opening for Jose Feliciano. In 1975, he immortalized the town in what the New York Times called, “his own version of Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run,’ called ‘Gotta Get Out of Worcester.’ “ Roger went to Indiana University in Bloomington in 1966. He chose his major by walking around the campus trying to feel the “vibes” of the various buildings. There and in San Francisco he found his poetic self and started to truly take his song writing seriously.
He migrated his Bloomington band to San Francisco in 1967 playing the Avalon, Fillmore and Carousel Ballrooms with Salloom, Sinclair and Mother Bear. During that time he played with Santana, Van Morrison, BB King, Procol Harum and many other greats.
In 1968, he signed his first recording deal with Chess Records’ subsidiary, Cadet Concept. Salloom, Sinclair and Mother Bear received rave reviews and was #1 on the charts of the top FM rock stations in Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Boston. It has since become collectible 30 years later.
Before long Marshall Chess, Roger's champion at the label, went off to be the president of the Rolling Stones’ new record label. The band broke up, but not before Roger Salloom and Robin Sinclair recorded again with Chess in Nashville in 1971 using the Grammy nominated group Area Code 615.
Intrigued with Nashville, Roger spent several years with artists including Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell and Richard Dobbins all of whom were a support team for each other all the time honing their writing skills. Roger returned to San Francisco where he was sponsored as a songwriter by the former manager of Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jake Rohrer, and CCR’s former bass player, Stu Cook.
Roger left California and settled into Northampton, Massachusetts in 1980 to raise his children as a single father. In 1983 he released a recording on the local label, Yellow Plum Records, a recording which became a Billboard Top Album Pick and garnered heavy airplay on some of the most influential stations in the northeast, the exclusive area of its release. It was chosen as Charles Laquidara’s Big Mattress Song of the Week on Boston’s radio giant WBCN.
VIDEO - In The Snow
He continued to play with greats including The Band (6 times), John Prine, Jerry Jeff Walker, Rick Danko, The Bodeans, Joan Armatrading, Leon Russell, Jonathan Edwards and many others.
Presently every year Roger performs at the Pines Theater in Northampton. It is the largest outdoor free concert of the year in Western Mass. Thousands of residents of the area have grown up listening to Roger's music. This concert is celebrating its 22nd year.
He has performed with Van Morrison, Santana, Cheech and Chong, Doc Watson, NRBQ, Maria Muldaur, Jonathan Edwards, Paul Butterfield and many others.
'La Te Da' the New album on Florence Records
Roger is still playing, writing and singing better than ever. “It baffles me that I am still getting better!”
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