Betsy-Dawn Williams with Josh Gordon
November 12 @ 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Betsy-Dawn Williams & Josh Gordon feature a grab-bag of genre flavors including a mix of hippie-era rock & roll, roots country, bossa novas, standards and jazz-pop. Original compositions and others are on the menu: homemade as well as “ready-made” by other musical composers.
Betsy-Dawn Williams – lead vocals & rhythm guitar – born and raised in North Carolina, now calling the Valley home, has two CD releases on the indie European roots music label, El Toro Records. She was a founding member of the honkytonk band GIRL HOWDY, and also led LI’L BEEDEE & THE DOO-RITES– a rockabilly, roots rock n’ roll combo.
Josh Gordon – lead guitar – raised in the hills of Virginia, has been part of the music scenes in Chicago as Lead guitarist with George Buford (Muddy Waters, Jr.) in a long-running weekly gig at Chicago’s legendary Checkerboard Lounge, in New York With Sam Andrew (of Big Brother & the Holding Company and Janis Joplin), with Frank Christian (guitarist/band leader of Nancy Griffith), the OK Club, an all star band with members of Billy Joel’s and Joan Jett’s touring bands, and in Nashville with CMA vocalist of the year Sara Evans.