House Concert At The Brodeens – Will Kimbrough, Tommy Womack, Brigitte DeMeyer

Posted on 26 July 2012

HOUSE CONCERT – July 22, 2012

(I will post more video tomorrow…)

 

The Brodeens, Ft. Collins, CO  USA   My family got back from a long ‘n hard camping vacation this past Wednesday(1,600 mountain miles driven in 7 days and a different camp site every night) and the following day my dear friend(and manager of some of the finest music acts in Northern Colorado), Gregg Allen sent out a desperate email. Some musicians who were scheduled and booked for the Swallow Hill Musician Association in Denver had cancelled the show for them that night – and wanted to do a show still in central/northern Colorado before moving on, preferably a house concert. Enter – me. “We just got back into town, let me check with my wife and I’ll get right back to you.” Ruth: “Uh, okay but I don’t want to feel like I have clean the house again – we’ve been back in town for 12 hours.” The musicians? WILL KIMBROUGH.  TOMMY WOMACK. BRIGITTE DEMEYER.I am very familiar with Will Kimbrough’s music because Not Lame used to sell it and both Will and Tommy Womack are friends with scores of my friends in their home base of Nashville.  I had been hearing about Womack’s music for years and never got around to experiencing it so this was the perfect chance. And Brigitte DeMeyer I had never heard of but she played with Sam Bush(the Jimi Hendrix of mandolin – I live in bluegrass country here in Ft. Collins, CO.) and that’s all I need to know. So we pulled it off and had about 70 people in our backyard(will post pictures soon) who drank some excellent New Belgium “Trippel” from a donated keg and everyone pot-lucked and brought a dish. I discovered that, indeed, Tommy Womack is a songwriting genius of rare breed and that Will Kimbrough is an infinitely better guitarist than I ever was aware(he plays with Emmylou Harris these days…) and one helluva great guy. The weather was perfect and warm and the night carried well past the last chord being unplugged. Now, I’ll turn it over to the Bloody Red Baron himself, Mike Baron and share his experience of the evening. Bruce ======================================================

House Concert at The Brodeens

by Mike Baron

Three Nashville troubadours, Bridgette Demeyer, Will Kimbrough and Tommy Womack, the latter two comprising Daddy, stopped by Bruce Brodeen’s back yard Saturday night for an impromptu concert organized by Gregg Adams and Herr Brodeen.
Story tellers as much as singers, the trio traded off songs: Kimbrough first, Demeyer second, and Womack third.  Kimbrough immediately set the mood with “Nobody From Nowhere,” playing soulful slide guitar and harmonizing with the others in a Little Big Town way.  Bridgette followed with “One Wish” with that Nashville twang, Kimbrough playing most of the lead guitar.  Womack’s “It’s Been a Nice Day” is one of those meditations on mortality that makes sense of a senseless world and would have calmed Idi Amin.  Kimbrough forgot the lyrics to his “Three Angels” but it didn’t matter as he fell back on his expert picking abetted by a copper tube capo on his left hand.
It was a perfect evening–the temperatures were mild, the company was great and the Nashville trio played softly into the dark. 

 

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