Solid Air: News

Well, hey, everyone's got a MySpace page, and now we do, too. Please visit and join our friends list.
http://www.myspace.com/solidairsamallegra

FOR THIS ALBUM:
Solid Air: Allegra Broughton & Sam Page

THE Apple iTunes LINK is:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=263407153

THE "BUY THE CD" link on CD Baby is:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/solidair6

Hey - we're featured in Acoustic Guitar Magazine Nov. 2007 (#179) talking about the real life world of gigging musicians...
GUITAR PRO: GIG
Real-World Portable PAs. Nine hardworking musicians offer advice for choosing a gig-worthy rig. By Andy Ellis.

Equally flattering and closer to home, Solid Air has been nominated in the Folk/Acoustic category for the 3rd Annual Norbays, the North Bay Music Awards.

Please go online and vote for us by Sept. 19 at:

http://www.bohemian.com/

Go down the page to where it says:

Vote Today! 3rd Annual NORBAYs
Click here to take survey.

THANKS!!!!

Our NEW ALBUM Solid Air “ALLEGRA BROUGHTON & SAM PAGE” has been nominated in the Contemporary Folk Americana category for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. Wow – if you are a Recording Academy member and can cast a vote for Solid Air, we’d be mighty pleased.

We are excited to announce the release of our new album on Jackalope Records. There are 11 new original songs, plus one by Scottish songwriter/guitarist John Martyn. Special guests include Nina Gerber, Gary Vogensen, John R. Burr, Steve Barbieri, Danny Sorentino, Rick Cutler, Vic Carberry, the Hot Frittatas, and THE BIG CHORUS.

You can pick up a copy at shows, by mail order from us: Solid Air, P.O. Box 733, Penngrove, CA 94951, at the Last Record Store in Santa Rosa, and at: http://cdbaby.com/cd/solidair6

Solid Air (Sam & Allegra with Steve Barbieri on guitar) are track#2 on Nina Gerber's atest release, "Good NMusic with Good People", featuring Nina Gerber playing with numerous artists from past Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festivals. (Jackson Browne, Eliza Gilkyson, Bruce Cockburn, Laurie Lewis, Greg Brown, Terry Garthwaite, John Gorka, and many others. www.ninagerber.com

Happening Afternoon at Jackalope Studios in Santa Rosa. The Jackalope Tabernacle Choir (32 voices strong!) joined Solid Air in the studio to sing on the chorus of "Not a War Song", to be included on the upcoming new Solid Air release on Jackalope Records.

CD Review 3/15/07 in Sonoma Sun: “Local Color” from Solid Air. Sam Page and Allegra Broughton have been doing their act for over 10 years, regularly appearing at Murphy’s. Although the CD was released in 2004, it just made its way into my hands and I’ve had trouble keeping it out of my CD player. The 12-tune disc is mostly original music with a couple classy covers. I guess I would have to put them in the folk rock genre but there’s more to the tunes than that. Allegra’s voice is very versatile, giving me a Linda Ronstadt feel but she also has a Bonnie Raitt and even a Nina Gerber thing goin’. The vocal harmonies are nice and the musicians they lined up for this disc show just how much they’ve been around the scene. Norton Buffalo, Kendrick Freeman, John Salz and even the late Vince Welnick to name a few. The CD is available on iTunes.

Reviewer J. M. Berry is host of 91.3 KSVY Sonoma radio’s Sonoma Valley Music Scene heard Thursday nights from 8-10. He can be reached at jmberry@ksvy.org

Thanks to all of you on the mailing list for participating in our "win free tickets" music trivia contest. Q. What famous music event happened on Feb. 9, 1964? A. Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. Our winners were Chet Gardiner and his lovely partner Ann. Special suprise guest with Peter Rowan & Jody Stecher was Maria Muldaur. A fun show for all!

As some of you may know, Sam plays bass with the Rancho All-Stars, house band of the Marin County (California) nightclub Rancho Nicasio. They play a great variety of highly danceable originals and covers in the blues/soul/r'n'B tradition, and the regular line-up includes Mike Duke (Delbert McClinton), Angela Strehli, & Billy Lewis (Roy Rogers). They usually feature a special guest, and last night's was the great guitarist/singer David Jenkins (Pablo Cruise, Southern Pacific). Then Elvin Bishop sat in for a stellar set, blues crooner Les Bailey sang a few, saxophonist Rita Thies played all night, and I got to sing with Angela on a couple of songs. Wow - what a night. You never know who will show up at the Rancho!

Hey what fun - what started out as a duo concert morphed into a full folk-rock band show in a mere matter of hours. Rick (drums) called the day of the show to say "Hey, can Steve (guitar) and I crash your gig tonight?", and what a gas it was. We've all known clubowner Jay for ages, are are sad to see him close up shop. Also great to see our longtime fan and songwriting pal Dave Monterey, too.

We have just recorded basic tracks for 10 new songs at Harry Gale's Route 44 Studios in Sebastopol, California.