Temperatures are forecast to be in the triple digits across the region Sunday, prompting many to find a way to stay cool indoors. Powerhouse Pub just may have the perfect offering to meet that goal as it welcomes country blues master Shane Dwight for this week’s Powerhouse of Blues Sunday afternoon.
While Powerhouse’s iconic music venue is well air conditioned and a perfect getaway on a hot afternoon in Historic Folsom, the show will definitely heat up on stage as the veteran artist with a deep musical resume performs.
Dwight has performed over 3,500 shows over the years, headlining at some of music’s most significant events such as the Ottawa Blues Festival in Canada, Beale Street Festival in Memphis, the Grolsch Blues Festival in Germany, the Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise, the Reno Blues Festival, and more.
According to his Powerhouse show billing, Dwight has shared the stage with household names such as Blake Shelton, Joe Bonamassa, The Doobie Brothers, Tedeschi Trucks Band, The Marshall Tucker Band, Collective Soul, and the great B.B. King.
Dwight grew up on a ranch in Morgan Hill, CA a few hours from San Jose and Monterey, where the air was fresh, and the sun was hot. At the age of nine, he was diagnosed with Perthes bone disease in his hips that prohibited from him walking for about a year as a young boy. Since then, the debilitating illness does go into temporary remission but when it returns it forces Dwight to live with severe chronic pain. Dwight began to learn how to play guitar back in high school, playing with friends and bands along the way, he started The Shane Dwight Blues Band at 28. His musical roots were FM radio, Album Oriented Rock artists like Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. He dug deep into their influences and found a stack of others, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, and Albert King; those gave him the nod to take it even further.
Sometimes standing on the rock where Moses stood is vital to get the energy of the ground into your soul and when Shane stood on the same burn spot where Jim Hendrix once stood at the famed Monterey Blues Festival, he felt the mysterious aura seep into his bones. Bones that once were strong get weakened at times when you need to fill your cup.
Where do you go to get it filled up? At the well of course, and for Shane that well is his fans. He has crisscrossed this country and the world many a time, to bring the people what they want, his music – a blend of rock and blues with a little dash of country. His band went on to win the Monterey Blues Festival Battle of the Bands in 2001, and that’s when it began.
Dwight will play with a four-piece band including keys and backing vocals for a lush and rocking sound. Tickets are $15 online or at the door for the Sunday show. The event begins at 3:00 p.m. Powerhouse Pub is located at 614 Sutter Street in Folsom.
Tickets for all shows at Powerhouse Pub, along with other upcoming events, can be found at www.powerhousepub.com. Also keep up with their many event across their display advertisements though out the pages of www.folsomtimes.com.
