This is a once a month (every third Tuesday) show that is designed as a listening room for world class songwriters, many with hit songs, long touring/recording associations with music legends ETC… to play their original music in an intimate setting. NO COVER BUT DONATIONS ARE STRONGLY ENCOURED AND GO TO THE SONGWRITERS. Project Barley serves excellent Food (Gourmet Pizza, wings, sandwiches, salads), wine, and award winning beer. Food served till 8:30pm. No reservations so arrive early to get a table. This month we are proud to present: SEATBELT W/SCOTTY MCLEAN, PRESTON SMITH, JODI SIEGEL
SEATBELT
The sound of Seatbelt is distilled from the purest of American music ingredients: Sun Studios, rockabilly, hillbilly boogie, and honky tonk, performed on vintage gear but ever so slightly updated with a modern edge and energy that is as contagious as the Rockin’ Pneumonia! Playing live, the band delivers an intense brand of American Rockabilly Music, pulling from their catalog of original material as well as performing vintage tracks and obscure gems from legends the likes of Elvis, Gene Vincent, Johnny Burnette, Carl Perkins, Eddie Cochran and other less-known greats. They have also been known to update classic rock tunes in a rockabilly/hillbilly style. There is always a surprise or two in store for audiences!
The band consists of Scott “Seatbelt” McLean on guitar, Echoplex and vocals, Jim “The Kid” Matkovich on the upright bass and vocals, and John “Lenny” Lenkeit on drums and percussion.
Previously known as Seatbelt and the Pecking Order, the band has shortened its name mainly because that is what everyone calls them anyway!
Two CDs are currently available with a third on the way.
Modern Sounds in Pagan Love Songs was released in 2007and received positive reviews in the OC Weekly and airplay on college radio across the country. Pour Me a Traveler, released in 2011, is jam packed with eighteen (!) of the finest original rockabilly, hillbilly, roots-rock Americana songs you’re likely to encounter. The title of the disc, Pour Me a Traveler, is reference to a hip flask filled with hi-octane fuel, just like the music of Seatbelt.
PRESTON SMITH
How does one categorize an artist who, during the span of his career, has sung for Barbra Streisand’s wedding, performed at countless functions for people such as Steven Spielberg, Aaron Spelling, and the late Sonny Bono, played harmonica and scat rapped alongside Salt’N Pepa on Quincy Jones TV show Vibe, played alongside Chaka Khan at a Grammy Awards Party for Black Entertainment Television Corporation, and has had the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Eddie Van Halen, Jerry Lee Lewis and Greg Allman, among countless others, join him on-stage for impromptu jam sessions. Preston has performed on The Tonight Show along with the late Jimmy Stewart and released an album on Curb Records entitled Preston Smith. He appeared on the hit movie soundtrack Cocktail starring Tom Cruise with the title song Oh I Love You So, which he composed, produced and performed. The soundtrack went on to sell over six million units foreign and domestically. Roseanne Cash then recorded his song Black and White, which released as a single, rose to number 30 on the country radio charts and was included in her greatest hits CD which went on to sell gold. Prestons latest CD’s are” That Real Feel”,which he produced and released on his own label, was recorded live in the studio and is a combination of many genres of the past. Other CD’s include……….. ” Romancing the Blues” a holiday CD. “Christmas Blues and Other Standards” and two new projects in the works entitled “A Night Blooming Jazz Man” and an all acoustic Solo performance Cd called ” So Lone”.His Music has been used by Arron Spelling,Fox for Fast Lane….and his “You Can’t Take It With You” song was used in the Julia Roberts movie ‘TheMexican” and new release for Artisan Films “Roger Dodger”. His song The “Ways Of Sin” was recently recorded by Bonie Raitt Band and Fleetwood guitarist Rick Vito and is receiving airplay in Europe it is also included in a new CBS Reality TV show.Preston has performed on many live radio and cable TV shows on both the east and west coasts, and has performed live on club circuits,Averaging 200 shows a year, in Los Angeles, New York and Nashville. His multifaceted talent has enabled him, both with his band and solo acoustic, to share stages with a diverse crowd of performers ranging from KROQ alternative rock favorites such as The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fine Young Cannibals, Fishbone, Wall of Voodoo, Concrete Blonde, Charlie Sexton, The Mighty Lemon Drops, and The Bonedaddys, to rock, R&B, and blues legends such as James Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bo Diddley, Bonnie Raitt, k.d. Lang, John Mayall and many more.
JODI SIEGEL
Jodi Siegel, originally from Chicago, IL, is a singer, songwriter and guitarist. Over the years Jodi has opened for and or shared the stage with many respected musicians including: Albert King, Robben Ford, Robert Cray, J.D. Souther, David Lindley, Fred Tacket and Paul Barrere (Little Feat) and countless others. Her songs have been recorded by Maria Muldaur, Marcia Ball, Tommy Ridgley and Teresa James.
She has recorded two CD’S; Stepping Stone and her latest CD, “Wild Hearts,” produced by Steve Postell (Immediate Family, David Crosby, Eric Johnson, Robben Ford, Iain Matthews), is filled with great songs, cool grooves, intimate, smart lyrics and some of the best of the best musicians in Los Angeles today including; Mike Finnigan (organ, piano), Hutch Hutchinson, Abe Laborial Sr., Alphonso Johnson (bass), Russ Kunkel, Michael Jerome Moore, John Ferraro, Arno Lucas (drums, percussion), Joe Sublett (Saxophone) and Maxayne Lewis and Clydene Jackson (background vocals). Each song has a soulful delivery with an undeniable down-home elegance. It has received great reviews by Patrick Simmons (Doobie Brothers), Maria Muldaur, Walter Trout, David Mansfield (T Bone Burnett), Leland Sklar, Mike Finnigan and Doug Macleod to name a few.