6-14-2014

Join Boston-based songwriters / vocal powerhouses, Amy Black and Sarah Borges with a killer backing band to celebrate the soulful music of Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

Amy and Sarah will perform classic songs originally recorded in Muscle Shoals, by Otis Reading, Wilson Pickett, The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Lou Rawls and others, as well as a few originals that embody the spirit and soul of Muscle Shoals. Don't miss this powerful night of music! 

This show, recently performed in Boston to a full house was created by Amy Black after releasing a four-song EP "The Muscle Shoals Session" recorded this summer in Muscle Shoals, her family's home place, with the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Spooner Oldham, keys player for Aretha Franklin, Neil Young, Bob Dylan and many others. The EP will be available for sale at the show. 

Amy Black is a singer/songwriter with storytelling and Southern tradition in her blood. In record time, she’s become one of the most sought after acts in the East sharing stages with Chris Isaak, The Courtyard Hounds, Rodney Crowell, and Emmylou Harris and headlining at top venues. The Boston Globe described her music as, "Americana in its broadest definition, rooted in folk and country but with tinges of Southern soul and blues." Besides The Muscle Shoals Session, on February 4 she will release "This Is Home," a full album of original music recorded in Nashville.
FREE Download! Get Amy Black's version of the Otis Reading song, "You Left the Water Running." She recorded it and several others in Muscle Shoals, AL with original Swamper and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Spooner Oldham. Click here to download the song.

Sarah Borges: To watch Sarah Borges strut and howl onstage is to participate in rock ‘n’ roll communion, all glistening sweat and high kicks, soul-shaking and sassy antics. She's a modern-day retro spitfire, red lipstick curled in a smirk as she summons her six-string to conjure a host of fiery spirits, leaving a stunned and ecstatic audience in her wake. 
This same raucous energy shoots through her fourth studio album, Radio Sweetheart, which is a statement of Borges’ future as much as it is a reflection of her past. Funded entirely by fans, the new album is a sea change marking a split from both Sugar Hill Records and her longtime band the Broken Singles, set in motion by a road weariness, six years of constant touring and the home-is-where-the-heart-is lure of brand new motherhood.

VIDEOS:
Amy Black - Bring it on Home - Lou Rawls Version
Sarah Borges - I'd Rather Go Blind
Amy Black - Uptight, Good Man - Laura Lee
Sarah Borges - Cry to Me - Solomon Burke