You, dear reader, are the first to know. The Jim Duffy Combo has another date booked: Thursday, June 24, 9 p.m. at the fabulous Lakeside Lounge, 162 Ave. B in Manhattan.
This venue is our favorite spot for cutting loose and playing bouncy and catchy and grooving instrumental music. Check out this lineup:
Jim Duffy, keys
Dennis Diken, drums
Paul Page, bass
Lance Doss, guitar and lap steel
It all keeps getting wilder and wilder.
As for Dennis, people are starting to realize that his 2009 album, "Late Music," credited to Dennis Diken and Bell Sound, is one for the ages, a true keeper. Besides being one of the most powerful rock and roll drummers on the planet, he composes, he sings, he produces, he does it all.
Paul Page, as you read this, is performing all across Europe with Ian Hunter, one of the hardest-to-please rock legends in the business. Page provided the low notes on Ian's latest opus, "Man Overboard," which that action-packed band will be performing, along with indelible tunes from the glam era. They're making history.
Lance Doss, when he isn't rocking the biker crowd at the at one-of-a-kind Great Notch Inn in Little Falls, N.J., a true roadhouse of the kind they just can't make anymore, is singing like a bird with an acoustic guitar at venues all around the five boroughs.
And yours truly is practicing day and night, punching the heavy bag, swinging Indian clubs and tossing the medicine ball, just to be in good enough shape to keep up with these guys.
We'll all be down at the Lakeside, in common cause, on Thursday, June 24, at 9 p.m., so save the date. You want to be there, you know you do, so write it down in pen. Enter it into your little gadget: Thursday, June 24. That's when we put the "lounge" in Lakeside Lounge.
Grooving and sparkling instrumental music, intimate setting, friendly bartenders, no cover charge, and after we finish playing, the most swinging jukebox in New York. What's not to like? Come on down!
(photo by C.S. Gray)