{"id":63,"date":"2010-07-22T01:07:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T06:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/?p=63"},"modified":"2010-08-02T09:26:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T14:26:14","slug":"laurie-morvan-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/byronleonard.com\/blog\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Laurie Morvan Band"},"content":{"rendered":"

A band comes to town that you’ve never heard of. You check out their video<\/a> on the Web. They’re playing at a club a few blocks away, so you take a chance. It pays off.<\/p>\n

I saw the Laurie Morvan Band<\/a> at Fitzgerald\u2019s<\/a> and was impressed. She’s a skilled guitarist, a good singer, and a lively performer<\/a>. She had a tight band with Pat Morvan, her ex-husband, on bass, Tom Salyers on electric keyboard and Lisa Grubbs on backing vocals. They put on a good show, one that CDs can’t capture.<\/p>\n

\"Laurie<\/a>

Laurie Morvan Band plays the blues at Fitzgerald's<\/p><\/div>\n

Morvan mostly sang original songs, but also covered two Albert Collins songs (\u201cIf You Love Me Like You Say<\/a>\u201d and \u201cA Good Fool Is Hard to Find<\/a>\u201d), as well as \u201cMessin\u2019 with the Kid<\/a>\u201d and Muddy Waters’ \u201cGot My Mojo Working<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her approach to the blues struck me as in the modern rock-pop vein, with less Delta than I like. It\u2019s hard to explain, but it has a different feel to me. I thought she was very good at what she did. I also liked some of her original songs<\/a>, but her style of blues is not one I aspire to. Needless to say, I’d love to be able to play at her level someday.<\/p>\n

She has recorded four CDs, including Out Of The Woods<\/em> (1997), Find My Way Home<\/em> (2004), Cures What Ails Ya<\/em> (2007), and Fire It Up!<\/em> (2009).<\/p>\n

Gear: Laurie Morvan played a 1956 reissue black Fender Stratocaster with gold pickguard from the Custom Shop. She used several effects pedals including a wah wah plugged into a 2006 Tone King<\/a> Meteor II 40-watt head & cabinet.<\/p>\n

Additional photographs of the Laurie Morvan Band are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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