Silver City Acoustic /<br>Jeff “Santa Rita Slim” Ray & Southern Rocky Mountain Band

Silver City Acoustic /
Jeff “Santa Rita Slim” Ray & Southern Rocky Mountain Band

Singer/songwriter and guitar and bass player Jeff "Santa Rita Slim" Ray will be our first guest this evening on Silver City Acoustic. Born in Silver City and "raised in space" (in Santa Rita, NM, now a mining hole in the ground), Jeff spent the last decades in Oregon and has now returned to our locale. Long ago, locally, Jeff played country-based dance music with the Delk Family Band, aka the "Gully Jumpers" and […]

19 June 2014 348

Silver City Acoustic

Silver City Acoustic / Barbie Williamson and Charlie Alfero

Both our guests this evening have the distinction of having an original song accepted for inclusion on the compilation CD Wild Gila: Forever Free - and being invited to perform their songs at the upcoming Gila River film festival and CD release celebration this Saturday, June 7, at the Pinos Altos Opera House in Pinos Altos, NM. (The fundraiser will support the defense of the free-flowing Gila River by the Gila River […]

8 June 2014 215

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Silver City Acoustic / Jammin’ Jeff returns

Tonight!! Jammin' Jeff, back by popular demand, will be spending the whole two hours sharing stories and his amazing bluesmanship with us - on Silver City Acoustic, 6:15-ish - 8 pm, MT. Last week, Jeff shared with us a few stories of his blues career, including 23 years traveling in Bo Diddley's band. People are writing from around the nation, telling us what a great show we have here […]

29 May 2014 230

Silver City Acoustic

Silver City Acoustic /
Howie Miller w/ Betty Marriage / Jammin’ Jeff w/ Tom McCoy

Tonight on "Silver City Acoustic," we'll visit first with Howie Miller and Betty Marriage, best known for the band "Sleep Til Noon," who've been singing together off and on since 1987. Both grew up in Hurley, are widely known around Grant County, and will share some stories and original songs with great titles like "Isolation Blues," "Shadows and Angels," "One Way Train," and more. In the second hour, we'll visit […]

22 May 2014 338 2

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Silver City Acoustic / Azaima Anderson & Dale Rucklos

Azaima Anderson, a Kerrville New Folk Finalist who studied songwriting with Rosanne Cash, is a lyric-driven songwriter as well as an interfaith minister, astrologer, yoga teacher, and shamanic healer who uses music in her healing work. She'll perform music from her new CD, Heart Lightning, a fusion of her music and healing work, with guest musicians joining on the first few songs, after which she'll finish the hour solo. In our second hour, Dale Rucklos, […]

15 May 2014 139

Silver City Acoustic

Silver City Acoustic / Roger Metcalf & Mike Moutoux

"Silver City Acoustic" tonight will feature music and interviews with Roger Metcalf in the first hour (6:15-ish to 7) and Mike Moutoux in the second (7:10-ish to 8). Roger, "originally a Brit but now a dual Brit/US" citizen, has lived all over the world, and has now settled down as a translator and musician in Silver City. He learned to play the stand-up bass to orchestra level, then switched to bass guitar and taught […]

24 April 2014 241

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Silver City Acoustic / Rodney Henderson & Karmin and Associates

Due to some scheduling issues, we will give this show another shot at a later date. Sorry for the last minute cancellation. Our first guest this week on "Silver City Acoustic" will be Rodney Henderson, a multi-talented musician who plays drums and guitar and writes and sings original music and favorite "roadhouse" songs. He currently leads The Roadrunners and previously drummed for the Oversouls, and also drums occasionally for The […]

10 April 2014 252

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Silver City Acoustic / Dustin Hamman & Douglas Francisco

Dustin Hamman, recently here from Portland, may be a little-known musician in town, but not for long, as he'll soon kick off a national tour for the months of March and April. The tour will promote the music he wrote for a film, "Beneath the Harvest Sky," as well as two other albums of original music. The tour (as "Run On Sentence" with Dan Galucki) begins here in Silver City at […]

26 February 2014 132

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Silver City Acoustic / Phil and Mary Brown and The Latchkey Kids

This week's guests will be, in the first hour, Phil and Mary Brown, formerly of "The Oversouls," and in the second hour the "Latchkey Kids." Long-time musical heroes in Silver City, Phil and Mary Brown anchored the popular Oversouls until recently, when Phil and Mary decided to pursue a new musical sound. They'll play some new and original acoustic music for us, talk about the process of songwriting, their Oversouls […]

20 February 2014 103