{"id":1025,"date":"2011-04-23T20:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T20:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.71.127.204\/wordpress\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2015-10-13T20:47:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T20:47:39","slug":"ross-sermons-webster-house-concerts-webster-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/23\/ross-sermons-webster-house-concerts-webster-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross Sermons – Webster House Concerts – Webster, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
Written by Jim Bille<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 23, 2011 at 08:00 PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"House concerts are a great way to hear some fantastic music in a casual up close atmosphere. You get to meet new folks, usually sample some great food and hang out with the musicians as well. HMR is a big supporter of this type entertainment and recently I received an invitation to a private house concert hosted by good friends Paula and Mark Sermons to hear Mark\u2019s brother Ross perform.<\/p>\n

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Based out of Nashville, Ross Sermons has become one of the better known session musicians in the music capital and is routinely sought out to lay down his bass lines for many local and national artists. Although mostly known for his bass guitar prowess, Sermons can also keep up with the best of them when pickin on his six string resonator guitar.<\/p>\n

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His resume includes session work and live performances with the likes of Jimmy Buffett, Steve Winwood and Steve Cropper. As part of bluesman Big Mike Griffin\u2019s band he opened for blues legends such as Pinetop Perkins, James Cotton, Robert Lockwood Jr, Gatemouth Brown and Gregg Allman to name a few.<\/p>\n

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Sermons grew up in an area of North Carolina that is well known for producing incredible Blue Grass and traditional guitar pickers like Doc and Merle Watson, David Holt, and The Red Clay Ramblers. There must be something in that mountain water that sprouts these kinds of players and judging from the way Sermons performance sounded the other night he must have drank more than a few gallons of it.<\/p>\n

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Ross Sermons show included a little bit of everything from covers of traditional blues numbers like \u2018Deep Elum Blues\u2019 and \u2018Sweet Home Chicago\u2019 to original compositions like King\u2019s Pool Room\u2019. His version of Randy Newman\u2019s \u2018Louisiana 1927\u2019 might have made you cry if you let it, but for me the tune that really hit home was a medley of Norman Blake\u2019s composition, \u2018Randall Collins\u2019 and \u2018Shady Grove\u2019. Sermons transition from one melody to the next and then back on this number was masterful.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve always been a sucker for the slide guitar and Sermons did not disappoint as he slipped and slid\u00a0over\u00a0his guitar strings tearing through\u00a0his great version of \u2018Rollin and Tumblin\u2019 as well as his original composition \u2018Carolina Blues\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Sermons latest CD, \u2018Kings Poolroom\u2019, has just been released and is loaded with some incredible music. From traditional blues standards to original numbers this disk has it all. Numbers from the CD featured at the show included, \u2018Preacher\u2019, \u2018Goodbye Booze\u2019 and \u2018Redbelly Shuffle\u2019 among others.<\/p>\n

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Our friends on the house concert or club scene of Houston wouldn\u2019t go wrong in booking this music man next time he\u2019s in town.<\/p>\n

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More info, including booking, sample music, videos, and CD\u2019s for Ross Sermons can be found at http:\/\/www.rosssermons.com\/fr_home.cfm<\/u> or http:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/rosssermons<\/u><\/p>\n

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Check him out\u2026..we like him a lot!!!!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Jim Bille Apr 23, 2011 at 08:00 PM House concerts are a great way to hear some fantastic music in a casual up close atmosphere. You get to meet new folks, usually sample some great food and hang out with the musicians as well. HMR is a big supporter of this type entertainment… <\/p>\n

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