Chris Doud + Tom VandenAvond live at lille æske

CD Relase/Songwriters Showcase
All Tickets $20
This is an intimate, seated show.

Chris Doud is a California singer/songwriter, and, for the last ten years, one half of the two front-men in The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit. Spanning the genres of folk, country, roots, and Americana, his music is steeped in the lore of childhood, the pangs of growing up, and the reflection of a lifetime of just plain living. In between gigging with The Good Luck fellas, and recording full band albums, he has recorded several solo albums, a children's album with co-frontman Willy Tea Taylor, and also finds time to make a painting or two.

Tom Vandenavond is a contemporary ghost with a wisdom in his music that exceeds his years. His sound embodies the nature of solitary travel and the inevitable connections made from a life on the road. He has torn through his Midwest roots and created an auditory imprint of the highways and byways, truck stops and roadsides of the afforded white line spectacles of the American construct. If you listen, you can hear a long haul on the Christopher Columbus Transcontinental highway … where the DayGlo over-exposure of Los Angeles meets the desert of Palm Springs … red rocks and mesa tops before Phoenix and Tucson … the cumbersome nothingness of West Texas where a man can can bide his time only with his thoughts and AM radio…. El Paso with a glimpse of the Third World at the border of Juarez … San Antonio and New Mexico heavy with Spanish and Native American charm … a brief pass through future city Houston and the descent into the thick air of southern Louisiana stretching over the 35 along the Pontchartrain into the heart of Cajun Country … Mississippi’s Jackson County into the Panhandle….