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No Cover! Kitchen open until 1:15 a.m. on Friday-Saturday nights, full menu available Sunday.
Also Oregon lottery, pool and pinball with the best view on the Coast. For more information, call 541-547-5459 |
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| Friday, Oct. 2, 9 p.m. |
PARISH GAP Eclectic art rock from Fleetwood Mac to the Dixie Chicks Tom Wright on guitar, harmonica, and vocals, and Bob Rause on keyboards, bass, and vocals are the heart of this band. They have been an inseparable musical duo since they met in high school in the Chicago area. The "Art Rock" style developed as a reaction to the simple bleats of punk. Jefferson Airplane and the Dead both had their "art rock" phases of soaring song development and the jam bands have the current hold on the style. Tom and Bob are joined by Catherine Wright, a former member of choirs and acapella groups who is the lead singer. and emerging presence on stage. Joe Montgomery on drums rounds out the group. |
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| Saturday & Sunday Sept. 5 & 6 9 p.m. |
Special national attraction! From the streets of Chicago, a true blues master Studebaker John Grimaldi was born in an Italian-American section of Chicago and started playing harmonica at age 7. He's gone on to make seven records, building a reputation for steamy, sultry Chicago blues on the harp and guitar with songs that are classic, original, always Chicago. He's played with the cream of Chicago blues players, including Big Walter, Jimmy Johnson, Buddy and Phil Guy, James Cotton, Junior Wells and Hound Dog Taylor. He's played all the clubs, both on the South and West side and all over the country. |
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| Friday, Sept. 11, 9 p.m. |
THE STREAMLINERS Blues, jump blues and swing from jazzy Eugene outfit This band plays music by everybody from Louis Prima to Ray Charles, presenting a different approach to the blues. The lead guitarist is Michael Anderson, a West Coast guy who has performed all over, solo, in jazz groups and behind the sound boards recording and producing. He can whip his guitar through just about anything and has a solid voice perfect for the style. On drums is Rick Markstrom, keeping the beat since the late 60s, and on bass is New York City native Mike Hatgis, who has performed Top 40, Middle-Eastern dance, R&B, Blues, Jazz, and Latin. |
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Special national attraction! From New York City, psychedelic rock and blues from former lead guitar player for Sheryl Crow's touring band Todd Wolfe is without doubt one of the Top Five best guitar players to grace the Landmark stage. His sweet and sour, toughly tender style has taken him a long way. Crow was a rising star when he played with her as she opened for a rather distinguished crowd in the mid-90s. The list includes Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and the Eagles. Todd got off the road around 1998, began running the blues jam at Manny's Car Wash in New York City, then evolved this new touring band that hits the Landmark. Lately, this band shared the bill with the likes of The Allman Brothers, Black Crowes, Blues Traveler, and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. |
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| Friday, Sept. 18, 9 p.m. |
ONE WAY OUT Blues and rock influences in a hot stew These guys arrive here from South, East, and West in a blend of voices and styles unique to their new home on the Oregon Coast. The four core players are all veterans with lots of recording and road time. Steve Sloan brings his razor guitar riffs from Long Island; Steve Cannon is the bands' California kid with that recognizable Bay Area feel to his singing and rhythm guitar; Richard Silen, on bass and vocals, has absorbed the Austin feel; and Carl Popham, the token Oregonian, puts the icing on the sound with his vocals and harp work. |
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| Saturday, Sept. 19, 9 p.m. |
No. 1 record! Rockin' Portland band with a Cashbox No. 1 single Kolvane's "Cool Baby" single reached and held the No. 1 spot in the Blues Singles category for two months on Cashbox Magazine's music chart earlier this year, no small achievement for an independent band from Portland, its name right there next to Elvin Bishop, The Mannish Boys and Tab Benoit. In the last four years singer/songwriter Kolvane took the Rose City Kings from obscurity to notoriety; then morphed into the band Kolvane, playing a rollicking style of rock with the crash-energy Kolvane blasting around the stage and Louisiana keyboard monster Steve Kerin rattling the room with boogie-woogie that let's you feel the Fess. |
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| Thursday, Sept. 24, 9 p.m. |
Special National Attraction! Rising star in the zydeco world, R&B from the swamp Curley Taylor has been in zydeco music all of his life. At 16, he started playing in his father's band, Jude Taylor & His Burning Flames, and by 25, Curley had played with Steve Riley, John Hart, "Lil" Bob of the Lollipops, and his uncles, "Lil Buck" Senegal and Wayne "Blue" Burns. He traveled with the legendary Clifton Chenier, switched from drums to accordion and formed his new band. The Times of Acadiana (Lafayette, La.) says: "Taylor may be the freshest zydeco act to come along since Beau Jocque. Instead of the usual nursery rhymes about dogs, donkeys, goats, and chickens, Taylor's lyrics tell stories and make sense. The tunes have a contemporary R&B and blues edge that can be enjoyed by someone two-stepping in Carencro or cruising along the Golden Gate Bridge." |
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| Friday, Sept. 25, 9 p.m. |
KEVIN SELFE High-energy blues from a Muddy Award nominee Since relocating in Portland in 2007, Kevin has established himself as a solid bluesman and a brilliant guitarist, nominated six times for Muddy Awards. He's been doing this most of his life, joining his first band in 1997 at age 23 in his hometown of Roanoke, Va. Before moving to Portland he played over 1,500 gigs in 15 states, conquering a wide circle of East Coast venues. But his new start in the Northwest has given him a fresh outlook, a boatload of new fans and a deep appreciation from the blues community. He's just put out his second CD, "Playing The Game," 10 originals played with Don Shultz, the long-time Portland drummer and newly transplanted New Yorker Allen Markel on bass. |
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| Saturday, Sept. 26, 9 p.m. |
NORTH OF WEST Keyboard driven jazz and blues with a European base Terry "Fingerprince" Reniex, a native of France, has performed around the globe, including a memorable Stevie Wonder tribute in the Mercadante in Naples, one of the oldest theaters in the world. He moved to Eugene where he studied music and has performed with many different people and acts. North of West is his latest project and is joined by the Afro-Cuban percussion of Carlito Sway from Orlando, Florida. |
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Mailing address: P.O. Box 14, Yachats, OR 97498
Phones: Restaurant, (541) 547-3215; Bar, (541) 547-5459
The Landmark opens at 8 a.m. every day.
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| No Smoking effective January 1, 2009 |
Looking Ahead!
Future Attractions
Thursday & Friday,
Oct. 22-23
9 p.m.
CEE CEE JAMES
Joplinesque blues from Seattle
Cee Cee James has had two careers, one as a rising star with a major label, the other as a hard-working Northwest blues singer. She was known as "the funkywhitegirl," recording a CD called "Spiritually Wet," hitting the MP3.com R&B chart in 2000. That same year, she won awards in L.A. and a John Lennon Songwriting Contest. By 2002 she was in the clubs in San Diego and then continued on in Oregon, playing locally in clubs and festivals in the Portland area, up through Anacortes, and down into Bend. In late 2007 she relocated to the Seattle area and has just finished recording her second CD of original material entitled "Low Down Where the Snakes Crawl," full of roots rock and blues.
Friday,
Oct. 30,
9 p.m.
ANDREW "JR. BOY" JONES Dallas guitarist, songwriter and singer; member of Musslewhite band
Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones began working professionally at age 16 and played guitar on three Charlie Musselwhite albums in the late-1980s/early-1990s albums for Alligator Records. He left Musselwhite in the mid-1990s and came into his own as a vocalist with an album for JSP Records, "I Need Time" (1997), which showcases his crafty songwriting, great guitar playing, and powerful singing. He also accompanies Dallas-area blues singers like R.L. Griffin, Hal Harris and the Lowlifers, and tours on his own - playing places Buddy Guy's Legends in Chicago, The Zoo Bar in Lincoln, Neb., Club Crow in Cashmere, Wash., and The Landmark in Yachats, Ore.
Big Fun!
The Landmark's Annual
Halloween Costume Party!
Saturday,
Oct. 31,
from 8 'til late