There have been more years since her last release then there are tracks on her new one, but undaunted, determined and more focused than ever, Noho’s prodigal daughter turned Beantown queen Amy Fairchild is back with new product and two area plays.
“Due to day jobs, kids and other unforeseen delays, we recorded in five different studios for more than three and a half of those years,” she explains.
Then, of course, there was always the daunting task of naming the sonic labor of love. After toying with a myriad of monikers—the worst of them, she confesses, being I’ve Tried—Fairchild eventually settled on Amy Fairchild as the title of her fourth CD.
“I hadn’t done the eponymous thing and I just felt it was time to introduce myself as myself as it’s somehow, only now, after a few records, that I feel I’ve found my real groove and am ready to face the world with more clarity and maturity than before,” she says.
This Friday, Sept. 5, she’ll debut the recently pressed product at Johnny D’s in Somerville (johnnyds.com) with special guest opener Cliff Hillis. On Saturday, Oct. 11, she’ll return to Noho’s Parlor Room (parlorroommusic.com) for her official Western Mass. CD release party proper.
“The record almost killed me, but in the end, I wouldn’t change a thing,” Fairchild says. “And it won’t be another 12 years before I release the next one, that’s for damn sure!”
Moving from Fairchild to fair-weather fans with the greatest of unease… the Get The Led Out show originally slated for Aug. 2 at Holyoke’s Mountain Park has been rescheduled to this Saturday, Sept. 6. True, the band may come from the “land of ice and snow” (or Philly, at least), but according to Iron Horse Entertainment Group Publicist Jim Neill, “the forecast for storms was foreboding, and we made the call even though the weather turned out to be nothing like that forecast.”
So it will be just a little more time ’til they rock ’n’ roll, and the bill has changed slightly—with Rush replicators Lotus Land having to bow out and Enfield’s Sharp DreZZed Man sliding in. A set by Crazy Diamond, a Pink Floyd duplicator out of Holyoke, remains the same. Tix are $25 and $35, and tickets for the Aug. 2 show will be honored Sept. 6 as well.
Last but not least, the Aaron Lewis camp has tallied the totals from the two major fundraising feeders for the It Takes A Community Foundation (ITAC). Between the Staind frontman/current country solo artist’s June 27 benefit concert and an Aug. 9 golf invitational, the combo of musical friends and fairways netted some $250,000 for the cause.
“It Takes a Community began when my wife and I joined with neighbors in our small, adopted hometown to keep the doors of our community school open after state funding was eliminated due to district consolidation,” Lewis explains.
“As of September 2015, our school will once again be a public elementary school for the children of Worthington,” adds wife Vanessa. “This milestone of self-sufficiency will allow the Foundation to continue its growth goals and mission by increasing the number of organizations that will receive grant money.”
Lewis is currently making the rounds with Brantley Gilbert on a tour that includes a stop at Worcester’s DCU Center Sept. 27. He also has a track on the recently released, country-fueled Mötley Crüe tribute album Nashville Outlaws.
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