Fall 2007
10/12/2007 - 10/13/2007
The 4th in a series of sold out Writer's Showcase at the historic DIXIE THEATRE in Apalachicola Florida!
Jeff Black - SAT.,OCT. 13
Dualtone recording artist, 
Jeff Black is "an artist of substance," wrote Billboard magazine. As anyone who's seen his moving, funny, and unpredictable concerts already knows, he never plays the same show twice, pulling from his commercial catalog Birmingham Road, Arista 1998 Honey And Salt, Blue Rose 2003, B-Sides And Confessions Volume One Dualtone 2003," and the new music on Tin Lily.
Jeff is a burly, bare-knuckled, blue-collar son of the Missouri plains with dark Irish blood who digs into tough topics with a gentle heart. "I love songs about freeing the spirit, about minimizing the struggle the best you can, about treating your individuality as something that's precious and important," he says.
Washed in the spirit and built on simple truths, his songs are performed with brawny passion. Black's compositions ring out with unadorned truth, with desire to dig deeper, to cut to the marrow. He knows the world is painted in subtle shades, not black and white, so he writes songs with a painter's eye and a poet's heart.
What makes a Jeff Black album or show so exciting is that, as a listener, you know the singer is there not to perform for you, but to take you on a journey with him.
web-site: www.jeffblack.com
Radney Foster - FRI, OCT. 12
Dualtone recording artist, Radney Foster continues to take chances. 
He has a gift for literate songwriting with the rough and tumble sound of a man who's done battle with the complexities of life. His current album is a testament to this.
"The best records I've done are about big transitions, things that have happened in my life that made me dig around in my soul," says this Texas hill country native. This CD, This World We Live In, reflects that. The beauty of this album is in that it pinpoints those messy parts of human emotion, but in the end it's about letting go-with the faith that the tide is going to hold you up and carry you along.
As an artist, his Arista Records hits, Nobody Wins, Just Call Me Lonesome, and Easier Said Than Done, marry pop smarts and roots credibility with a profound insight into the human condition.
Robert Oerman, writer and columnist conveys it all, in his review of This World..., "There are lots of times when I feel that everything that drew me to Nashville is gone. -I look at the mediocrity that passes for songwriting these days and feel forlorn. But every so often, somebody writes something to remind me that the embers of creativity are still burning. Radney is the sound of hope and renewal."
web-site: www.radneyfoster.com