{"id":578,"date":"2013-04-06T20:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.71.127.204\/wordpress\/?p=578"},"modified":"2015-10-08T20:38:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T20:38:07","slug":"chad-elliott-almost-austin-pasadena-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/06\/chad-elliott-almost-austin-pasadena-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad Elliott – Almost Austin – Pasadena, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
Written by James Killen <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 06, 2013 at 08:00 PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Image\"I wasn\u2019t quite sure what to expect Saturday evening at Kenny Pipes\u2019 house when Barbara and I got to the Chad Elliott show. I had picked up bits and pieces of stuff from YouTube, but really hadn\u2019t done my homework before the show. <\/span><\/p>\n

After sound check, Chad came out to mingle with the folks enjoying the pot luck supper. He\u2019s a big strapping corn-fed fellow from western Iowa with an easy smile and a laugh that says \u201cCome on over and sit down a while.\u201d Chad, his wife and fifteen year old son live in Coon Rapids, Iowa. He has in the past spent a year in Austin and another year in the San Francisco Bay area. He\u2019s not new on the music scene as he has put out eighteen albums and garnered numerous awards for folk and Americana genres. You would never know it from his humble, down home approach to life.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s something warming about an open, what-you-see-is-what-you-get personality and with Chad Elliott it transfers to the stage very naturally. His first song of the night, \u201cSwear I Could\u201d featured a rocking beat, with country hooks and a folk presentation. This great song, like many of the others Chad played on this evening, has not been recorded yet. That tells me that Elliott is an ongoing, productive writer and story teller with a lot to offer music fans for years to come.<\/p>\n

The evening\u2019s fare included low key ballads like \u201cMinnesota\u201d, upbeat folk blues like \u201cGet My Walking Shoes On\u201d (featuring some pretty impressive harmonica riffs) and country blues like \u201cMaureen\u201d. The songs were punctuated by stories leading from one tune to the next, like inheriting his great grandfather\u2019s \u201871 Buick and spending the night in a \u201chaunted\u201d cabin in the Ozarks. <\/span><\/p>\n

The first set featured \u201cSame, Old Way\u201d, the winning song for the 2009 Woody Guthrie song contest and an as yet unrecorded \u201cHeaded My Way\u201d, which got a big thumbs up from Lynyrd Skynyrd\u2019s lead vocalist. Chad finished out the set with \u201cFollow the Light\u201d, which Elliott claimed was inspired by Eric Taylor\u2019s song writing. Personally, I didn\u2019t see the influence as the song was very upbeat and did not involve any one dying or defiantly refusing to die.<\/p>\n

As impressive as the first set was, the second set put it to shame, kicking off with the \u201cHome Fire Blues\u201d into \u201cThe Contender\u201d written for an Iraq war veteran struggling to rejoin society upon rotating back. That was followed by the rousing bar chording of \u201cWide Open Road\u201d and a crowd pleasing cover of \u201cWhite Freight Liner Blues\u201d. His song \u201cLong Road\u201d did sound to me like an Eric Taylor tune (I\u2019m a big fan of his as well.) \u201cBlue Bonnets\u201d touched that sadness of a love that was never to be between a Midwest man and a Texas lady. Mr. Elliott closed out the show by banging the chords of \u201cBarns on Fire\u201c\u00a0 out into the night followed by a cover of Bo Diddly\u2019s \u201cBefore You Accuse Me\u201d.<\/p>\n

I was so impressed with the evening\u2019s performance that I stood in a rather long line (considering the light attendance) to buy three of his CD\u2019s. I\u2019ve listened to all three now and there are some great productions on them. However, the warmth and enthusiasm of the live show puts his studio work to shame. Rumor has it that Chad will be back in town at Almost Austin next year with back up vocalist, Bonita Crowe. Line up guys, because those tickets will be going fast.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by James Killen Apr 06, 2013 at 08:00 PM I wasn\u2019t quite sure what to expect Saturday evening at Kenny Pipes\u2019 house when Barbara and I got to the Chad Elliott show. I had picked up bits and pieces of stuff from YouTube, but really hadn\u2019t done my homework before the show. After sound… <\/p>\n

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