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| Jim Suhler and the Monkey Beat. |
Jim Suhler and the Monkey Beat
The Kessler
Dallas, TX
November 28, 2015
They say you can’t go back home again, but Jim Suhler
returned home Saturday night. He returned to The Kessler just a few blocks from
his parents’ old home on Clinton in Oak Cliff; his dad collected tickets at the
door when The Kessler was a movie
theater.
Jim Suhler and the Monkey Beat decided The Kessler would
be a great venue to do a show and record a live blues-rock album.
Suhler, who also plays guitar for George Thorogood and
the Destroyers, played cuts from his Panther Burn album (Underworld Records,
2014), Tijuana Bible (Underworld, 2009) and Bad Juju (Lucky Seven Records,
2001); as well as some covers like Jimi Hendrix’s Are You Experienced.
Thrilling fans with his slide guitar and vocals, Suhler
got help from keyboard player Shawn Phares, bass Chris Alexander, drums Beau
Chadwell and extra keys and accordion from Tim Alexander.
Earlier in the night, guitar-singer Charley Crockett
opened up accompanied by trumpet player Charles Mills Jr. He played songs from
his Stolen Jewel album (2015) as well as an upcoming album In the Night.
Apparently, both acts are fans of late Houston bluesman Lightnin’
Hopkins. Charley Crockett joked that he uses the Lightnin’ Hopkins style of
guitar tuning.
And Jim Suhler sang a song in honor of Lightnin’: Po’ Lightin’
dead and gone, left me here to sing this song.
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