Stone Cold Cash

Stone Cold Cash is Chicago’s NEW Johnny Cash Tribute. Stone Cold Cash authentically reproduces the sound and feel of Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Three throughout their rise to Rock and Roll and Country Music Halls of Fame. Filling the shoes of the ‘Man in Black’ is Dan Simpson, whose bass-baritone voice faithfully recreates the energy and rich, southern sound of Johnny Cash from early to late Cash records. Lead by guitarist, David Welker, veteran Chicago musicians form the heart of the band and pride themselves on giving modern audiences high-energy, top-quality renditions of songs from the moment the train departs. “Hello. We’re Stone Cold Cash…

AARON KELLY BAND

The shadow cast by the city of big shoulders is a shade where a certain imagination gets ignited. Perhaps it’s all the train tracks that harken back to when Chicago was truly freight handler to the nation, sending catalog dreams speeding over steel to far off corners of the country.

Aaron Kelly grew up in Plainfield, IL, thinking big and making plans, and wondering where those trains were going to. Falling under the influence of Townes Van Zandt, Hank Sr., John Prine, and contemporaries Todd Snider and Hayes Carll, his songs aren’t too dissimilar from those crates and packages of the last century. They carry the promise that something good is coming. These are songs meant to ease a burden and bring a smile, carefully crafted and made to last.

Aaron has been featured by American Songwriter Magazine, and will release his first solo album in December 2015, after zig-zagging across the country for the last 7 years with his band, Overman.

THE PISS POOR PLAYERS

For the past 33 years The Piss Poor Players have been battling with the realism of demons. There aren’t many folks out there who have had to face the adversities that they have. They have struggled with alcoholism, drug addiction, poverty, crazy women, hopelessness and the wildest twists and turns life can throw at one. They have looked death in the face on more occasions than one could count. Raised into a life of music they have deep roots in old school Country and Blues. Metal and Rock N Roll, Punk Rock, and East Coast Hip Hop. They don’t write songs that people want to hear. They write songs about the things they know about. The things they have seen and done, and the things that have happened to them. Day by day they deal with the struggles of life while maintaining steady focus on making real music for folks who give a shit about what is really going on. Being Piss Poor is a way of life they accepted a long time ago. Nothing has ever been given to them. Instead of laying down on there backs and feeling sorry for themselves like so many have done. They have taken their life experiences, and turned them into works of art. There wouldn’t be The Piss Poor Players if their lives would have been easy. Piss Poor For Life!

DIRTY GREEN

As if from the soil itself, DIRTY GREEN emerged in 2005 and has continued to cultivate a hybrid of authentic, yet truly original music planted deep down in the ground of early american roots. DIRTY GREEN’s namesake comes from a song written by singer Aaron Mitchell which takes some digs on the lopsided and fictional attributes of the almighty dollar bill. Influenced by, but not limited to: american folk, Americana, bluegrass, blues, punk and early country, DIRTY GREEN offers a wide array of original ballads, blue-collar rants, pseudo-rockabilly romps, bar room jingles and a hearty batch of heart-wailing folk songs.

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