New Mexico songwriters Kim Treiber & Chipper Thompson make their Lubbock debut in an intimate all acoustic performance presented by the Vernacular Music Center and Corner House Concerts. Enjoy this fine duo in the superlative acoustic atmosphere of the back room at J &B. The concert begins at 8:00pm on Saturday, February 21st. Tickets are $15 if bought in advance at J &B and $20 at the door. Discounts will be given to students with a valid ID.
About the Artists:
Kim Treiber hails from Illinois but for the past 30 years she has made Taos her home. As a child she was "force-fed" traditional country (Loretta Lynne, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson) by her mother but young Kim rebelled and became the bass player in the acclaimed regional band The Bohiems, after which she became a "folkie," writing songs of tortured love and political/social awareness in the folk-rock duo Burning Joan. In 2003 she recorded a version of "Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain" for her mother's birthday, and realized that here roots had caught up to her and that she liked it. With her husband Chipper Thompson she recorded Blue-Hearted Girl, a collection of country songs in Alamosa, Colorado and Nashville. She and Thompson later formed the now long-running favorite Taos band Kim & the Caballeros. Her voice has been described as "Like honey, with just a drop of whiskey."
Called "the Southwest's finest Roots musician" by Thirsty Ear Magazine, Chipper Thompson was raised in Limestone County, Alabama and moved to Taos in 1991. He got his start accompanying his father, who played the pedal steel guitar in country bands. A gifted songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, et al.), he has released four solo recordings of his own material: Strange Lullabies (1997), Folk-n-Roll (1998), Penny Dreadfuls (2003), and O How I wish My Bad Heart Was True (2014). Am I born to Die, his 1999 collaboration with singer and multi-instrumentalist Mason Brown is a collection of Appalachian and Celtic songs of love and war given an innovative folk-gothic treatment that foreshadowed the Americana boom kicked off by the soundtrack for O Brother Where Art Thou in 2000. His critically acclaimed duo bouzouki project The Janissary Stomp (2001) with Roger Landes was the first recording of its kind, exploring the multi-genre moods of the Irish bouzouki. In addition to playing lead guitar for Kim & the Caballeros he has been a member of the gothic-folk-rock Bone Orchard. A performer at home in a variety of styles he sometimes performs his own hard rock trio The Stray Ravens.
