GLASGOW music promoters Sounds in the Suburbs stage their first concert of 2017 by presenting a double bill featuring Glasgow post-punk favourites James King and the Lone Wolves and rockabilly quartet the Veloninos at the CCA on Saturday, January 14. James King and the Lone Wolves formed in the early 1980s and finally released their debut album in 2014 after a chequered history that included recording an unreleased set with Velvet Underground founder John Cale. Following their concert, Sounds in the Suburbs welcome singer-guitarist Brooks Williams, from Statesboro, Georgia, to Woodend Bowling and Lawn Tennis Club in Jordanhill on February 8. Also lined up are New York-based alt-country duo The Mastersons, maverick troubadour Jeff Finlin, Devonian singer-songwriter Peter Bruntnell, and Nashville duo Will Kimbrough & Brigitte DeMeyer. willkimbrough.com
BRUCE Iglauer, founder of Chicago-based blues label Alligator Records, is to be a special guest when singer-guitarist Toronzo Cannon, pictured, appears for Edinburgh Blues Club on January 19. Iglauer has over fifty years’ experience in promoting and recording blues musicians, having become interested in the music while a student at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. He began hosting a radio show at the university and promoted concerts by Howlin’ Wolf and Luther Allison on the campus before going on to establish Living Blues magazine and taking a job as shipping clerk with Chicago blues label Delmark Records. When Delmark declined his suggestion to record singer-guitarist Hound Dog Taylor Iglauer decided to record Taylor and his band, the House Rockers, himself, creating Alligator Records in the process in 1971. He has subsequently worked with Albert Collins, Robert Cray, Koko Taylor, James Cotton, Johnny Winter, Lonnie Brooks, Roy Buchanan and a host of other artists, including Toronzo Cannon, while developing Alligator into the world’s biggest independent blues label. He will be hosting a question and answer session during the concert, which takes place at the Voodoo Rooms in Edinburgh. edinburgh-blues.uk
SAXOPHONISTS Raymond MacDonald and Graeme Wilson play a concert at the Reid Hall in Edinburgh on Friday, January 13 ahead of the release of their new album, Cast of Thousands. The concert is part of the two-day Concurrent#2 festival, which is staged by Edinburgh College of Art’s research network to examine improvisation between disciplines and also includes talks, workshops and performances integrating live drawing and dance. MacDonald and Wilson have been working together in ensembles of varying sizes since the 1980s and have collaborated with leading improvising musicians including pianist Marilyn Crispell, saxophonist Evan Parker, trombonist George Lewis and guitarist Fred Frith as well as appearing with Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. The concert begins at 7:30pm and admission is free.
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