- Jason Ricci
It’s not often we find ourselves listening to the blues by an openly gay musician but today was the day. We just happened to get a copy of Jason Ricci and New Blood‘s newest CD “Done With the Devil” today just before we found out he’s playing in town tonight. Blues music might be the last thing you’d expect from a young, bleached blonde (or whatever color it might be today) dude from Nashville but he’s got some chops. He performs tonight at Pearl at Commerce in downtown.
Looks like this is turning out to be a great weekend for live music on the LGBT front.
Thanks for the knowledge hook-up. Musicially, they were solid on the blues/funk stuff although the drummer was making my side-eye twitch on some the slower drags. Really liked their song, “Broken Toy”, and Jason burns up some harmonica. By the way, he was sporting dark hair and it was working much better for him than the blonde shown here. My only issue about the night was at times Jason’s voice sounded artificially gruff, as if he were trying to make it sound harder and rougher. However, the grooves they gave out as musicians made stuff like that easier to overlook.