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CAPE COD TIMES - Robert Randolph & the Family Band

by Joe Burns - August, 30, 2019

On a tree-shaded side street, in Orange, N.J., stands a small brick building, home to the House of God Church. It was there that Robert Randolph learned the Gospel and the steel guitar.

Randolph and his Family Band, who perform at the Payomet Performing Arts Center on Saturday, Sept. 7, honed their skills in church and that gospel sound permeates their music today, as evidenced in the band’s performance and in its recently released CD, “Brighter Days.”

The first night Peter Wolf arrived in Boston, he slept at a YMCA. The second night, penniless, he slept on the banks of the Charles River. “The third night, it was going to rain. I was in the hallway, hoping to find somebody who could maybe put me up,” says Wolf, 73. “I bumped into this guy who was looking for a roommate. And that guy turned out to be David Lynch.”

NORTH TRURO – Taj Mahal is a musician as open-hearted and open-minded as we wish the world to be. The blues master and his quartet, plus one gifted guest, played a rich gumbo of music to a full Payomet Monday evening crowd.

With heat lightning in the sky, and a tornado warning in the air, the audience was treated to a rollicking show of country blues, Chicago blues, Hawaiian, Calypso, West African and rhythm and blues.