Songwriters Jesse Dayton, Belle Plaine are Live from Peach Street
It’s all about the music at Live From The Divide. The intimate performance space celebrates the lineage and contemporary voice of the American Roots singer/songwriter, featuring talent from all over the country. Here’s a look at a few of the upcoming acts.
Revered guitarist, singer/songwriter and filmmaker Jesse Dayton will perform on Tuesday, September 3rd at 9pm. Tickets are $30 plus fees. Doors at 8pm.
Dayton visits in support of newly released Mixtape Volume 1, a collection featuring deeper cuts by legendary artists infused with the Lone Star State native’s Texas/Louisiana-influenced style. Through his decades-spanning career, Dayton has become one of the music industry’s best kept secrets and valuable weapons with a sound that blends rock, blues, old school country, punk-rock and zydeco. On Mixtape, he offers his own reinterpretations of songs from iconic artists including Neil Young, Elton John, ZZ Top and more.
Over the years Dayton has developed into a true Renaissance man, performing as a guitarist for a range of artists including Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Ryan Bingham, Duff McKagen and seminal L.A. punk band X. He has toured with the likes of Social Distortion, The Supersuckers and John Doe, written soundtracks for three Rob Zombie films, wrote and directed his own film and just signed a publishing deal to write a memoir. With more than 50 songs licensed to film and television, 11 studio albums and one EP, Dayton is a gifted, intelligent, socially conscious and unstoppable creative force who continues to tour nearly 250 days a year. After three decades as a jack of all trades, while hiding in plain sight and working with a who’s who of artists, Dayton now enters a new chapter focused primarily on his own career. Read the BoZone’s interview with Dayton at www.BoZone.com.
Canadian singer/songwriter Belle Plaine brings a show to Bozeman with the help of musician husband Blake Berglund on Saturday, September 7th at 9pm. Tickets are $25 plus fees. Doors at 8pm.
The ingenuity, lonesome yearning and collaborative work ethic of country life has infiltrated Plaine’s songwriting, sound and methods. Her reverence for artists who defy categorization has led her to create a brand of roots music that combines vintage blues and swing tones of the 1940s with classic country styles made popular in the heyday of the Grand Ole Opry. Plaine’s latest album Malice, Mercy, Grief & Wrath highlights her tremendous voice and prodigious songwriting abilities, and showcases her varied musical influences from Link Wray and the Everly Brothers, to Cole Porter and Neko Case. While the album contemplates the ephemeral nature of life, it also manages to address themes that are persistently unfolding in our lives: forgiveness, redemption and hope.
Texan folkster James Steinle is set for Friday, September 20th at 8pm. Tickets are $25 plus fees. Doors at 7pm.
Based in Austin, the songwriter’s tunes take aim at topics such as Western decay, urban angst, faded love, and what he calls “typical county country” fare. His eclectic upbringing, spending large portions of his childhood in Saudi Arabia and Germany, aid in his unique worldview and subsequent song subject matter. Steinle has shared the stage with fellow Americana acts such as Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis, John Baumann, Jonny Burke, Michael Martin Murphey, Mike & the Moonpies, Jamie Lin Wilson, and Rodney Hayden. His recent album South Texas Homecoming was followed this summer by a live release, Live at Hole in the Wall.
Future Live performances include Granville Automatic, Jason Hawk Harris, Tylor & the Train Robbers, Gurf Morlix and Emily Scott Robinson, among others.
Tickets are sold at the door, but these small shows are known to sell out quickly! Advance tickets are available at www.livefromthedivide.com where you can also find a complete list of upcoming shows. The Live studio is located at 627 E Peach St. in Bozeman. •