ARL Roots Review 59

Whacked by the Sopranos?

Fuggitaboutit.




American Roots Live with Nasty Ned held its turf Sunday night at Orphan Annie's playing host to many knock-dead roots jammers and garage rockers.

Great people, great music and great prizes including commercial baked goods that fell off a truck in Bloomfield.













Yes, the special raffle prize along with the Charlie Parker CD, Elmore Magazines and autographed harmonicas was a rerouted red bag of Archway "Big Batch" Chocolate Chip Cookies.

From blues to folk-blues to rock inspired by roots music, ARL - the only open mic celebration of roots music that might get you fat - was tons of fun!

With your regular favorites joined on stage by lots of new faces, ARL 59 was off the scale.

Here's how the hit list read: JR Bradfield, Ed Pampani, Roy Macnamara, Garry Hodgson, Ron Seibert, Gene Gigliardi, Chris O'Sullivan, Chaz, Ed Avilia, Paul, Phil and Los Gringos with Josh Lafargue, Stacy Hanft, Ed Hanft and George Segale

Special thanks to Big Daddy and the Musician's Trading Post in Washington, NJ for the set of white Pearls, Little Stevie for the big cookies, Ed, Karin, Rick, BluesKid, Elmore, Win and more.

See you again on Sunday.

Keeping it real,

Ned