BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.3//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1351@wnyblues.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250810T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250810T220000 DTSTAMP:20250806T171221Z URL:https://wnyblues.org/events/eddie-9v-at-sportsmens-sunday-august-10th- 700pm/ SUMMARY:Eddie 9V at Sportsmens Sunday August 10th 7:00PM DESCRIPTION:Funtime Presents &\; Sportsmens Present:\n\nEddie 9V\n\nSund ay\, August 10\, 2025 7pm $25.00ad($28.50w/fee) $30.00 at the door\n\n5pm Doors\n\nGet tickets here: https://www.showclix.com/event/eddie-9v\n\nAs f ar back as he can remember\, Capricorn Studios was calling Eddie 9V. As a kid scanning the\nsleeves of his favorite vinyl records\, this fabled faci lity in Macon\, Georgia\, was always the secret\ningredient\, adding a lit tle grit and honey to every song born on its floor. Capricorn and the\nban ds who blew through it urged the Atlanta guitarist to ditch school at 15\, play his fingers\nbloody throughout the south\, and turn apathy into accl aim for early albums Left My Soul in\nMemphis (2019) and Little Black Flie s (2021).\nEddie spent his first quarter-century admiring Capricorn from a far. But in December 2021\, the\n26-year-old finally put his thumbprint on the studio’s mythology\, corralling an eleven-strong\ngroup of the Amer ican South’s best roots musicians to track his third album. “There was \noverwhelming excitement at being in such a legendary studio\,” he says . “But we hugged and\ngot right to work. Everyone was joyous\, loving\, and flat-out playing their asses off.”\nYou don’t come to Capricorn St udios for polish. Frozen in time since its opening day in 1969\, the\nmojo from sessions by giants like the Allman Brothers and Bonnie Bramlett stil l hangs in the air\,\nwhile the recording philosophy remains gloriously ra w. That suited Eddie\, whose output has\nbeen celebrated for its warts-and -all snapshot of what went down. “In a world where everyone\nis trying t o sound the best\, I’m trying to sound like me\,” he reasons. “I alw ays want the listener\nto feel like they’re in the room with us. So I’ d leave it in if a drum pedal squeaked or someone\nlaughed during a take o n the Capricorn album. It’s our way of putting a stamp on the song.”\n Eddie’s old-school ethos goes way back. Born Brooks Mason in June 1996\, he acquired his first\nguitar aged six\, “One of those with the speaker in it – the most bang for your buck\, y’know?”\,\nignored the preva iling pop scene at Oak Grove High School in favor of local heroes like Sea n\nCostello and studied “older cats” like Muddy Waters\, Howlin’ Wol f\, Freddie King\, and Rory\nGallagher “to see what made them groove and tick.” His shoot-from-the-lip lyrics adds Eddie\ncame from family fish fries\, where his Uncle Brian “taught me to make people laugh\, how to\n hold an audience’s attention.”\nWhen Eddie infiltrated his home state ’s live circuit – first with covers band The Smokin’ Frogs\,\nthen i ts more adept blues-rock offshoot\, The Georgia Flood – he quickly prick ed up ears\neverywhere he played. His artistic vision became full realized when he killed Brooks Mason and\nadopted the solo moniker that promises a n electrifying night out\, “Eddie 9 Volt”.\n“There are too many Joe Schmo r&\;b bands\,” he reasons. “I was on the road with another ba nd\,\nand we were talking like mobsters. So we gave each other names – m ine was Eddie.”\nAlready\, there has been massive acclaim for his early output\, with Left My Soul in Memphis\ndubbed “fresh and life-affirming ” by Rock &\; Blues Muse and Little Black Flies praised by Classic\nR ock as “the most instinctive blues you’ll hear all year.” But as the Capricorn sessions ticked\ncloser\, Eddie fused the nervous energy into h is best songs yet. “Coming off a straight blues\nrecord\, I wanted to sh ow people we’re more than that\,” he reflects. “I was listening to M uscle\nShoals and soul\, a lot of music recorded at Capricorn in the late- ’60s too. So we spent way more\ntime crafting the new tunes. Each song t ook a week to write\, instead of five in one night like\nLittle Black Flie s.”\n\n“Beg\, Steal and Borrow” is ballsy soul with Eddie’s spit f lecking the mic. “Yella Alligator” is as\nswampy-sounding as the title \, with slide guitars lapping around cardboard-box beats. Bout To\n“Make Me Leave Home” is a propulsive shuffle\, Eddie’s vocal seemingly made up in the\nmoment. The gospel-touched “Are We Through” catches a brea th before How Long drapes\nmellow organ over bone-dry riffs. “It’s Goi n’ Down” fuses porch blues with psychedelic\nwoodwind\, while “Tryin ’ To Get By” brings brassy strut while concealing lyrics from the\nper spective of a man on a downward spiral\, surviving on the crumbs of a love affair. “The lyrics\nand meanings of these new songs are way deeper\, ” says Eddie. “Take the song “It’s Goin’\nDown”. It’s really about my struggle with alcohol\, the dangerous nightlife of bars\, and th e drugs\noffered to you in the music industry. But then\, one of my favori te tunes\, “Yella Alligator\,” is\nabout a fictional psychedelic party in the bayou”\nLikewise\, Capricorn is an album of thrilling musical co ntrasts. Bob Dylan’s “Down Along\nthe Cove” is a pugnacious blues-ro cker\, followed by Khristie French’s gossamer lead vocal on\nthe spiritu al Mary Don’t You Weep. Mellow Missouri is dusty as a great lost soul se ssion\, while\nbrass punches through the glassy chords of “I’m Lonely ”. Finally\, the album ends with Eddie’s\nlaughter as he realizes he h as no more to give: “I gotta come out of this room!”\nNever meet your heroes\, they say\, and many young artists have been overwhelmed by\nwalki ng the holy ground of their dream studios. At Capricorn\, Eddie 9V breathe d in the history –\nbut the album he spat out is worthy of sharing the n ame\, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with\nthe studio’s greatest hits and taking music back to the golden age. “We made this record\,” he\ncons iders\, “the way they would have done in 1969." ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://i0.wp.com/wnyblues.org/wp-content/upload s/2025/08/Eddie-V9.jpg?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1 CATEGORIES:Live Blues Music END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR