Landmark Center with additional support from KFAI Radio, Pioneer Press and Minnesota Music Coalition, presents Landmark LIVE in the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Auditorium at St. Paul's historic Landmark Center.
Please note: A cocktail hour (where audiences can enjoy complimentary refreshments and a cash bar) precedes each concert at 7 p.m., doors open at 7:30 pm, and the concert start at 8 p.m.
* Landmark Center is following all applicable COVID-19 mandates. Please check the website prior to your visit for updates. *
Acclaimed raconteur Ray Bonneville strips his bluesy Americana down to its essentials and steeps it in the humid grooves of the South, creating a compelling poetry of hard living and deep feeling. His ninth release, At King Electric, delivers more than his trademark grit and groove. Songs such as “The Next Card to Fall” and “Codeine” gleam with intimate narratives of characters reaching for hope and wrestling with despair. Rich guitar and harmonica lines resonate over spare but spunky rhythms, while Bonneville’s deep, evocative voice confesses life’s harsh realities.
Jim Withers (Montreal Gazette) describes his sound as “folk-roots gumbo… a languid Mississippi Delta groove, seasoned with smooth, weathered vocals and a propulsive harmonica wheeze.” Whether performing solo or fronting a band, playing electric or acoustic guitar, Bonneville allows space between notes that adds potency to every chord, lick, and lyric. Thom Jurek (Allmusic.com) remarks, “With darkness and light fighting for dominance… he’s stripped away every musical excess to let the songs speak for themselves.”