Adrianne Hall and The Tailfins at the Rhythm City Casino Resort Rhythm Room -- October 14.
Friday, October 14, 9 p.m.
Rhythm City Casino Resort Rhythm Room, 7077 Elmore Avenue, Davenport IA
Performing a tribute to the iconic artist behind chart-topping albums Tapestry, Music, and Wrap Around Joy, acclaimed vocalist Adrianne Hall will celebrate the artistry of Carole King in Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Rhythm Room on October 14, a night also featuring classic rock, pop, and soul hits by area favorites The Tailfins.
A singer, songwriter, and musician who has been active since 1958, initially as one of the staff songwriters at the Brill Building and later as a solo artist, King is regarded as one of the most significant and influential musicians of all time. She is also the United States' most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century, having written or co-written 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Of those songs, 61 of them charted in the United Kingdom, as well, making her the most successful female songwriter on the U.K. singles charts between 1962 and 2005. Over the course of her career, the now 80-year-old King released 17 studio albums, four live albums, seven compilation albums, one soundtrack album, and 33 singles as a lead artist, as is ranked by Billboard as the 73rd Greatest Artist of all time.
King scored her breakthrough with Tapestry, which topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks in 1971, remained on the charts for more than six years, and has enjoyed global sales of more than $30 million. With Tapestry having held the record for most weeks at number one by a female artist for more than 20 years, King has made 25 solo albums in total, with her sales estimated at more than 75 million copies worldwide. She has won four Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and has twice been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, both as a performer and a songwriter. In addition, King is the recipient of the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song – the first woman to be so honored – and was a 2015 Kennedy Center Honoree, and in 2013, she was celebrated in the Broadway jukebox musical Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. The production finally closed in 2019 after 60 previews and 2,418 regular performances, making it the 27th-longest-running musical in Broadway history, and the show earned its star Jessie Mueller a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical.
Performing on the October 14 bill alongside Adrianna Hall are The Tailfins, the widely popular, high-energy oldies-show band from the Quad Cities area. Known for their exhilarating renditions of classic hits from the '50s through the '80s, the band covers legends including Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Beach Boys, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Tom Petty, John Fogerty, Bryan Adams, the Cars, and the Romantics. The Tailfins features vocalists Steve Pekios on guitar, Kerry Tucker on lead guitar, Rod Smith on drums, Rich Fricke on bass, and Perry Hultgren on keyboards & vocals, and each member has been performing professionally for over 20 years and boasts extensive touring experience.
Adrianne Hall and The Tailfins play Davenport's Rhythm Room on October 14 at 9 p.m., and more information is available by calling (563)328-8000 and visiting RhythmCityCasino.com.
