posted September 15, 2005
On Saturday, Sept. 17, KZ-106 and Fox 61 will host a Red Cross benefit concert at The 1st Tennessee Pavilion. The show is aptly named “Blues for the Bayou” with proceeds benefiting victims of the Katrina storm.
The gates will open at 6 with the concert beginning at 7. Admission is minimum of $10 per person. Guests should bring a lawn chair; food and beverages will be available.
The headlining act is Tommy Crain & The Cross Town All Stars. Tommy Crain is best known as the lead guitarist for the Charlie Daniels Band for more than 15 years. While with Charlie he recorded more than 20 CD’s and co-wrote more than 60 songs: his most famous being “Devil Went Down To Georgia” which earned him a Gold Record and a Grammy Nomination. Some area fans may remember Tommy’s earlier bands Flatcreek and Buckeye which both performed regionally. They were bands in the same vein as his current band, The Cross Town All Stars, a Southern Blues/Rock fusion group. The All Stars are an Atlanta band that has a strong regional following in their own right with their members having played with such notable acts as: Cheap Trick, Little Feat, Marshall Tucker & Georgia Satellites. Their new CD is “Give It To ‘Ya” on Chattahoochie Records.
Their special guest for the evening is Bonnie Bramlett, and maybe her daughter Bekka.
Bonnie Bramlett is an R&B/rock singer. She moved to Memphis in the early '60s and became a session and backup singer for R&B and blues performers such as Fontella Bass and Albert King. She then became a member of the Ikettes, the backup singers for Ike & Tina Turner. That brought her to Los Angeles in 1967, where she met Delaney Bramlett, who had been a member of the Shindogs, the resident group on the TV show Shindig; they married within five days and formed a musical act, Delaney and Bonnie. Delaney and Bonnie cut an album for Stax Records in Memphis, backed by Booker T. and the MG's, but it was not released at first. They then formed a group called Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, who featured Leon Russell among others, and cut Accept No Substitute (1969). After Delaney and Bonnie and Friends toured opening for Blind Faith, Eric Clapton left that group and joined them along with such notables as George Harrison and Dave Mason. This resulted in the On Tour album, after which members of the Friends band worked with Clapton and Harrison, and on Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen. Delaney and Bonnie made several more albums before divorcing. Bramlett then formed the Bonnie Bramlett Band and released her debut solo album, Sweet Bonnie Bramlett, backed by the Average White Band, in 1973. She then signed to Capricorn Records and made It's Time (1975), Lady's Choice (1976), and Memories (1978). She later became a born-again Christian and began singing gospel music. She turned to acting in 1987, under the name Bonnie Sheridan, and has since appeared in the film The Doors and the TV series Rosanne. In 2002 Bramlett returned to the music world with the release of her first album in over twenty years, I'm Still the Same on Audium. The record features Bramlett singing a variety of styles like jazz, blues and adult contemporary.
Also featured are blues artists The Sterchi Brothers Blues Band, Chattanooga’s hometown favorites. Drew & David Sterchi have been turning out music for more three decades. Drew’s first band that some area fans may remember was Tiffany System, a Brainerd High party band. Through the years Drew, David, Milton Hamrick, Fred Mayes and Burnard Tate have continued to crank out Tennessee Valley Blues. During those decades they have shared the stage with music icons as Dr. John, The James Gang, Earl Scruggs, Johnny & Edgar Winter, Albert King and Delbert McClinton. They are now joined by a second generation of the Sterchi family with the addition of Drew’s son Chris, sometimes on percussion, guitar and vocals, and David’s angel-voiced daughter Virginia.
Sponsors for the event are: KZ-106 FM, Fox 61-TV, Sheraton Read House Hotel, Miller Lite, Chattanooga Association of Realtors, Chattanooga 1st Mortgage, National Posters Digital, B&B Steel Erectors, S&M Building Supply, Hwy 58 Bar-B-Que and Track 29.
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