Memorial Day weekend filled with music at Supper Club

Derek Lacey
The Corner News
Published: May 27, 2011 8:40:43 am

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Destiny Brown will perform at the Songwriter’s Festival at the Supper Club this weekend.


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This Memorial Day weekend, more than the regular assortment of songs will be heard coming from South College Street.

The Supper Club Songwriter’s Festival includes more than 20 acts, spread across the three-day weekend.

John Brandt, owner of Supper Club, formed the idea from looking at other songwriter’s festivals and tweaking the recipe to fit just right at the Supper Club.

This weekend will be the third songwriter’s festival that the club has hosted and is bringing in a range of local and regional artists.

“We’re pretty much known at Supper Club for being a cover music sort of venue, but there are a lot of great songwriters that are currently playing with the club and that have played there in the past,” Brandt said. “We thought it'd be a good showcase to bring them all together."

Headlining acts include Tony Brook on Friday, the Randall Bramblett Band and Sugarcane Jane on Saturday and Billy Earle McClelland and Rock Kilo on Sunday.

The festival is also shining the spotlight on some younger area musicians as well, including Dylan Grantham, Destiny Brown and Annelise Walley, who is 17 years old.

“I'm really looking forward to seeing the Randall Bramblett Band,” Brandt said. “I'm really looking forward to seeing Sugarcane Jane, and to be honest with you—all of them.”

Destiny Brown is a 21-year-old Auburn student who has been playing the guitar since she was nine and writing songs since she was 10, compiling a list of about 100 songs.

Brown said the inspiration to write a song strikes her most when something sad happens.

“Anything that really bothers me,” Brown said. “I really don’t talk about it, I just write songs about it.”

Originally from Selma, Ala., Brown’s father started teaching her guitar at an early age and she picked it up immediately.

Brown plays mostly country and classic rock, and said she listens to more modern stuff, like the Avett Brothers and Mumford & Sons, but has no favorite genre or band.

She’s hoping to move to Nashville next summer and find a door of the music business that she can stick her foot in.

“I’m hoping to go to Nashville next summer for my internship,” Brown said. “I have a few connections in Nashville right now and I’m going to see what I can do from there.”

Anthony Crawford, of Sugarcane Jane, is no up-and-comer. He has played with Neil Young on and off since the early ‘80s and has also played with Steve Winwood and Dwight Yoakam.

The International Harvesters, a band made up of Neil Young and an assortment of other musicians, including Crawford, is releasing a new album of compiled live recordings, “A Treasure,” on June 14.

For the last two years, he’s been touring the gulf coast with Sugarcane Jane, made up of Crawford and his wife, Savana Lee.

“My favorite thing to do is what I'm doing right now,” Crawford said. “And that's singing and playing and doing all our own music with Sugarcane Jane."

Crawford explains the duo of acoustic guitars as “a little bit on the rambunctious side of acoustics,” and that it’s hard to place Sugarcane Jane within any genre.

Crawford is no stranger to songwriting either, having penned more than 400 written and recorded songs over the last 30 years.

Starting with the drums, moving on to guitar and other instruments, Crawford writes his songs music-first, and fills in the words later.

“I don't really like to write a song, I like the song to write itself,” Crawford said. “My songs are just words that ramble out of my head, there's no real big meaning. I'm not trying to save the world, that's for sure."

Check out Crawford, Brown and many more musicians at the Supper Club this weekend. For more info, visit wareaglesupperclub.com.


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