Saturday, February 10, 7 p.m.
Moline Viking Club, 1450 41st Street, Moline IL
Two sensational blues acts join forces for one stellar concert when the Mississippi Valley Blues Society hosts a February 10 event at the Moline Viking Club: a night of rock, reggae, and good-old-fashioned blues with Odds Lane and Reverend Raven & the Chain-Smoking Altar Boys.
With the duo's 2016 Last Night at Cherokee described by Skope magazine as “downright decadent, with a true sense of play” and “a perfect, fully formed and thought-out-album,” Odds Lane is the musical outlet of singer/songwriters Doug Byrkit and Brian Zielie, who first worked together while in college studying music, and subsequently toured with various artists both nationally and internationally. Performing a blend of blues rock, R&B, reggae, New Wave, and swamp boogie, the St. Louis-based musicians released their debut album Dark Matters in 2012, which went on to earn the ASCAP Plus Songwriting Award and licensing deals with such TV networks as MTV, Oxygen, E, A&E, WE, Oxygen, and Fox Sports.
Winners of the 2016 Blues Blast Music Award and Independent Blues Scene Award fo Best Live CD, the Reverend Raven & the Chain-Smoking Altar Boys frontman was born and raised on the south side of Chicago, and has been playing the blues consistently since 1971. Raven has opened for the likes of BB King, Gatemouth Brown, Pinetop Perkins, Koko Taylor, Junior Wells, Billy Branch, Magic Slim, and dozens of other recording artists, and his ensemble has been in the headliners rotation at Buddy Guys Legends' for 16 years running. The band's harmonica player Westside Andy, meanwhile, has shared stages with blues artists including James Cotton, Luther Allison, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGhee, and shares with Raven 2011 Blues Blast Music Award nominations for Best Blues Band and Best Song.
Tickets are $15 for the general public and $14 for Mississippi Valley Blues Society members, and more information on the 7 p.m. concert with Odds Lane and Reverend Raven & the Chain-Smoking Altar Boys is available by calling (563)322-5837 or visiting MVBS.org.
