The State Room | A Live Music Theatre | Salt Lake City, Utah

An Evening with...

One of the blues world greats...5 BLUES MUSIC AWARD NOMINATIONS FOR 2010 - ♦ Band of the Year ♦ B.B. King Entertainer of the Year ♦ Contemporary Blues Album of the Year ♦ Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year..."A gifted lead guitarist firmly in touch with his lyrical voice, Castro writes an alluring blend of straight ahead blues and Memphis-style soul. While he has his own definable sound, Castro calls to mind great blues-rock players such as Billy Gibbons of Z.Z.Top, Stevie Ray Vaughan and even Duane Allman." - Blues Revue

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and Promise of the Real

Lukas Nelson and The Promise of the Real are an exciting new crossover blues rock band from Southern California. And yes...he is the son of Willie Nelson. Promise of the Real features Lukas on lead guitar and lead vocals Promise of the Real leans towards blues, a little folk and good old rock and roll. "I have no idea how to label it," says Lukas; "but we come to it with a rock and roll attitude!" Come on out for Monday Blues at The State Room...

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w/ special guest TBA

Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons featuring Steve Drizos (drums) & JR Ruppel (bass) will be touring behind their brand new release, Badlandia, and this will be one of the CD release shows. Jerry Joseph is constantly touring. If it isn't solo, it is with his rock band The Jackmormons or one his side projects, including The Stockholm Syndrome. Regardless of the configuration, it is always about the songs.

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w/ The Moondoogies

The Dutchess and the Duke sophomore record, Sunset / Sunrise, is a slump-dodging opus that takes the dark, raw beauty of the band's debut and scales it up to distinctly luminescent heights, thanks to a graceful synthesis of painfully earned creative maturity and thoughtfulness.

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w/ Jared Mees & The Grown Children

Based on the strength of their release...Hot Trottin', Dallas'...Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights got picked up by Atlantic Records. This is a band full of Southern-inflected blues/rock/soul. Tyler's got a powerful voice that recalls Chris Robinson's, and he uses it on anything from Skynyrd-singed guitar grinders to sweet ballads to juicy, R&B-flavored rock.

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w/ Nathaniel Rateliff

From its hand silkscreened cover art to its meticulously crafted songs, The Low Anthem offers work meant to be held, savored, contemplated, and occasionally stomped along to. The Providence, RI, trio's Nonesuch debut offers a distinctly human touch in an era of instant uploading and ephemeral expression.

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Hugh Cornwell is one of the UK's finest song-writing talents and accomplished live performers. The original guitarist, singer and main songwriter in The Stranglers enjoyed massive UK and European success with ten hit albums and twenty-one top forty singles in the 17-year period he was in the band. The Stranglers etched themselves into the UK's musical psyche with Peaches, No More Heroes, Golden Brown, Always The Sun, Grip, Nice N Sleazy, Duchess, Walk On By, Strange Little Girl and Skin Deep.

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Full electric rock and funk from one of the best players on the planet - Tim Reynolds. He has been playing music all of his life. Starting as a bass player in a gospel band in his hometown of St. Louis to his break through band in the 80's TR3 and forward to recording with and touring with the Dave Matthews Band and the Dave Matthews Tim Reynolds Acoustic Duo.

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with Earl Greyhound & The Booze

By Ira Glass...Okay, let's just get this part out of the way. Most people know OK Go from their videos, especially those treadmills. Any video that's well enough known to be parodied on The Simpsons is a cultural force in itself and, checking the YouTube rating right before sitting down to write this, I was amazed to see that the number of views on the band's YouTube page alone now stands at 47,788,229. That's a lot. That many people and a brother who's the Governor of Florida is pretty much enough to win you a presidential election. Add the zillions who've seen it elsewhere, and you might not even need the brother.

Tickets on sale Friday, March 5 at 10 am...

& Hierophant with special guest !OUTERNATIONAL!

The acclaimed singer-songwriter is kicking off a bold new chapter in his career with new band HIEROPHANT and Black Ribbons (Black Country Rock/Rocket Science Ventures), a mind-blowing 70-minute opus that completely obliterates genre distinctions. On this unprecedented work, twanging dobros coexist with Nintendo chipsets; brutally assaultive passages alternate with moments of unabashed tenderness, and surreal Floydian soundscapes float above smoking slabs of whiskey-soaked southern soul. It's an electrifying thrill ride across a dense, dark and gloriously decadent musical landscape.

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Pigeon John hails from sunny Southern California, Inglewood to be exact. It's easy to assume his signature blend of wit, charisma and undeniable stage presence is a fortunate gift (and it is), but let's be real. Everyone starts somewhere. Southern California's hottest rising surf/rock/reggae band, THE B FOUNDATION draw influence from reggae rhythms, teen angst, and the salty waves of the Pacific Ocean.

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Portland's Nick Jaina is a writer, record producer and performer who plays music in many permutations, most often with his seven-piece band. The band is known for playing on the street, gathering attention with their improbable set of instruments, and then getting people to dance and clap and sing along. Nick will have a new album out April 13th. David Williams is a critically accalimed singer-songwriter based right here in Salt Lake City. Here is what Anna of Slowtrain records has to say about David's 2009 release...Western Interior Seaway more than proves that David Williams is a legend in the making.

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w/ The Barfly Wranglers

These are very good times for Reckless Kelly. With the release of Bulletproof in 2008, the Austin-based roots-rockers known for the integrity of their musical approach, the hard-core energy of their live shows and the fierce loyalty of their fans, turned up the intensity on their career. It contained their first #1 on both the Texas and Americana charts, "Ragged as the Road," and earned them a nomination as Best Band at the 2009 Americana Music Awards, a show that put them on stage at the Ryman Auditorium.

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w/ Wye Oak & Hospital Ships

Shearwater continue to explore the beauty, menace, and fragility of the natural world – and that increasingly rare species, the indivisible album – on The Golden Archipelago, the band's most absorbing and accomplished work to date. In The Golden Archipelago, Shearwater turn to a portrait of life on islands – a world of alternating lushness and austerity, numinous silences and sudden cataclysms, and the strange flowerings of plant, animal, and human life that only arise in isolation.

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w/ special guest TBA

The 2009 release by Heatless Bastards - The Mountain - was produced by Mike McCarthy (Spoon, Trail of Dead, Patty Griffin). The Mountain delivers the swamped-up rock howl that fans have come to love from the critically acclaimed Heartless Bastards, but it also weaves in an adventurous sonic evolution, expanding their three-piece rock palate by adding pedal steel, mandolin, banjo and strings, all in support of Erika Wennerstrom's transcendent voice that Rolling Stone once described as "channeling all the swagger and spit of a young Robert Plant."

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At 150-200 live shows each year people gather to see his mad scientist at work, curiously watching as That 1 Guy plugs an electric chord into the heel of a cowboy boot and transforms it into an instrument. He howls and the audience joins him like a pack of coyotes. They even chime in for the song "Weasel Pot Pie," offering rhymes to finish a line about "cinnamon scones": Twilight Zones? Al Capones? Frank Stallones? That 1 Guy laughs and offers the grin of a Cheshire cat. Here is a man who loves his job.

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