The Mike Nolan Band
Photo by Maureen King
Warm lamps, fluffy rugs and bean bag chairs created a warm living room in the American Legion Hall Friday night.
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Front man Mike Nolan sent “Check,” with an extra special K through his sound check microphone. Next up,
acoustic strings, peeled off one by one. A spectacular bend turning heads, opening windows for a payoff. Cash in time found winning slips all Tangled Up In Blue.
Nolan's triple strum technique set the Dylan cover ablaze and apart though favorite cousin to She’s A Rainbow.
Creativity and ingenuity would be the flavor of the night for The Mike Nolan Band performing at Watch City Arts Fridays in August concert series.
It melted off the keys of Jessie Mattison, talented and two handed, simultaneously playing organ plus piano. Chandler worked his keyboard canvas, Nord Stage 3 and electronic 6, coming up with The Mona Lisa. Mattison's madman fingerwork filled a spectacular spotlight on Kristofferson’s Me and Bobby McGee and Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah.
Ryan Adam’s Let It Ride left the station with the chug of a train courtesy of Isaac Hiller’s snare and Nolan’s lead. Building bass from Mike Chandler punched a driving, soulful ticket.
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Mary Had A Little Lamb blew the roof off the Legion, a Robert Turner tune turned the room rockin'.
Nolan's upstrumming and harmonica add clever and quality to the pike of sweet solid work.
Next up for The Mike Nolan Band is a Sunday August 31st gig at Mr Dooley's on Broad St in Boston. Watch City Arts hosts Angelique next Friday at The American Legion Post.
Tom Arena from The Waltham Museum announced a Metz car show at 25 Lexington St. Saturday September 20.
