BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//High Noon Saloon - ECPv5.14.0.4//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:High Noon Saloon X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.high-noon.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for High Noon Saloon REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20220313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20221106T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220616T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220616T190000 DTSTAMP:20240328T130438 CREATED:20220502T003159Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220502T005704Z UID:7406-1655398800-1655406000@www.high-noon.com SUMMARY:Thursday's Happier Hour DESCRIPTION:Join us every Thursday this summer from 5-7PM on the patio at High Noon Saloon for a cold beer and a free happy hour show!\n**Sponsored by Blue Moon and Brass Ring**\n𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗨𝗣\nJune 2 – Old Soul Society\nJune 9 – The Grasshoppers\nJune 16 – Gregg Hall & The Wrecking Ball\nJune 23 – Craig Baumann & The Story\nJune 30 – Nuggernaut\nJuly 7 – Gin Mill Hollow\nJuly 14 – Seasaw\nJuly 21 – Wise Jennings\nJuly 28 – Dropbear Collective\nAugust 4 – Feeding Leroy\nAugust 11 – Ben Majeska & Friends\nAugust 18 – Wild Horses\nAugust 25 – High & Rising\nSeptember 1 – The MilBillies\nSeptember 8 – Frank Martin Busch and The Names\nSeptember 15 – Dig Deep\nSeptember 22 – Humbird URL:https://www.high-noon.com/event/thursdays-happier-hour-3/ LOCATION:High Noon Saloon\, 701 East Washington Avenue\, Madison\, 53703 CATEGORIES:Thursday's Happier Hour ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.high-noon.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Untitled-design-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220616T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220616T200000 DTSTAMP:20240328T130438 CREATED:20220526T170035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220614T205352Z UID:7533-1655409600-1655409600@www.high-noon.com SUMMARY:McKinley James DESCRIPTION:Based on the latest local guidelines\, attendees are no longer required to provide proof of negative COVID-19 test AND/OR vaccination for entry into this event. Other shows on our calendar may still have specific health and safety requirements based on artist request.  Be sure to check our venue website for the latest updates and guidelines as entry requirements are subject to change. \n\nABOUT MCKINLEY JAMES \nThe first thing you notice about McKinley James’ extraordinary new EP Still Standing By is the serious mix of Motown soul and blues-based guitar playing. It doesn’t sound like the type of “blues” you get from traditional purveyors of the genre\, but instead from a guitarist who understands chord theory so well you could swear you’re hearing a horn section sometimes. That’s because he leads a trio\, and while guitar stores reverberate with licks from ham-fisted modern bluesmen when they don’t know shuffle from shinola\, McKinley would walk into that guitar store\, plug in\, and summon the spirits of his own idols\, nearly forgotten pioneers like Otis Rush and Johnny “Guitar” Watson. Still Standing By is his third EP\, all of them fine listens\, and here’s the thing… McKinley is 19 years old. Already a veteran before he’s old enough to drink. \nStill Standing By is a six-song feast. Produced by The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach at his Easy Eye Sound studios in Nashville\, it’s soul music with a dash of blues growl\, all written by McKinley himself (with Patrick Sweany on “Whatever It Takes [For Love]). “Stuck in the Shadows” sets the tone for the disc. “My early influences\, there were no horns\,” he says\, “and so especially with a trio – I love the sound of horns\, but you have to fill in the space without them.” In this way he channels the great Chuck Berry\, whose patented double stops were written to take the place of horns he didn’t have either. \n“Clear Skies” is Motown and Rank & File put together with a visit from Tom Petty’s ghost\, if you can imagine that. It’s also actually not unlike what British legends The Jam sounded like as they transitioned from rock to R&B. “Whatever it Takes” follows the same lead and dare one say\, shows the direction Hendrix might have gone\, had he been able to change his musical setup and grow gracefully old like Clapton. \nMcKinley’s favorite is “Spare Change Blues.” Of it\, he says\, “It actually revolves around the guitar I play now\, an ES-335\, because I really wanted to buy that guitar\, and it took me about two or three months to pay for it. That’s when I got the idea for “Spare Change Blues”\, because I couldn’t be like\, ‘Here you go\, here’s all the money! I’m buying the guitar right now.’ I had to work up to it.” \nBorn and raised in Webster\, New York\, not far from Rochester\, James moved to Nashville with his family not even five years ago. They have always been a musical bunch. His father\, former Los Straitjacket and J.D. McPherson drummer Jason Smay\, plays with him in his band. And in his younger days\, McKinley took a liking to the Hammond organ they had in the house\, now manned by trio 3rd member Austin John Doody. He’s a living example of why every guitarist should start with keyboard; because he learned so much about theory and craft\, when he finally moved over the foundation was laid for him to far surpass your average guitar hero\, playing simple bar chords punctuated with bits of wheedly wee. \nHe got his feet wet in town fairly quickly\, playing the Family Wash and Basement regularly in his first few years\, where he and his band grew a steady crowd before shutdown in 2020. His unparalleled musical journey has taken him from the cover art of Eric Church’s critically acclaimed ‘Mr. Misunderstood’ to stages across America and Europe\, even to Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena where he performed the album’s title track with Church for a sold-out hometown crowd. \nAlready a seasoned road dog who missed his own high school graduation for a gig\, things are now heating back up in the wake of the pandemic\, as he and his band gear up for the type of touring young men are built for. James is incandescently stoked about the July 23rd release of Still Standing By\, and given the music on it\, he should be. So where does he see himself a year from now? “On the road\, taking this thing even further\,” he enthuses. “Everyone’s just so happy\, and the band is ready to get out there. We’re just ready to go and ride it out. And I hope people dig the record.” Odds are they will. URL:https://www.high-noon.com/event/mckinley-james/ LOCATION:High Noon Saloon\, 701 East Washington Avenue\, Madison\, 53703 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.high-noon.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/McKinleyJames-HNS-Web.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR