Review: Small Potatoes

Subject: Small Potatoes
From: GUEST,Bill
Date: 20 Dec 08 - 01:24 AM

Check out this Illinois-based duo on Utube. Here is a sample of the best two songs written recently here

Subject: RE: Small Potatoes
From: GUEST,CupOfTea with no cookies at work
Date: 20 Dec 08 - 11:44 AM

I love these folks!!! I've watched this duo go from good to great to WOW over the years. Since I usually got to see them once a year, the intensification of their skill and range was very evident. In a city known for singer-songwriters of skill, their originals hold up well as does their interpretations of a HUGE range of covers. From Ewan McColl's Terror Time to The Berryman's delightfully goofy Double Yodel (which I had the chance to hear them do during their debut at Kerville nearly a decade ago) to western swing, they pull it all off as if each style were the only thing they do.

If you have a chance to see them in person, DO! If you can't, well, make do with U Tube & then buy some of their albums!

Joanne In Cleveland

Subject: RE: Small Potatoes
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 20 Dec 08 - 03:50 PM

Avocado!!!!!   The best!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Small Potatoes
From: Alice
Date: 20 Dec 08 - 03:59 PM

I've met them! Heard them perform, great job.
They were next door neighbors of a friend of mine.

Subject: RE: Small Potatoes
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Dec 08 - 04:00 PM

What a lot of fun and what an ease they have with one another. Thanks for introducing them!

Subject: RE: Small Potatoes
From: topical tom
Date: 20 Dec 08 - 06:06 PM

Very reminiscent of the Berrymans. Beautifully synchronized. Thanks for the link!

Subject: RE: Small Potatoes
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 20 Dec 08 - 06:20 PM

Their best song is "1,000 Candles, 1,000 Cranes" about the Hiroshima bombing. It brings tears to peoples eyes.

SOL

Subject: RE: Small Potatoes
From: Uncle Phil
Date: 21 Dec 08 - 03:19 AM

And frequent performers at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield where they always put on a very entertaining show.
- Phil

Jacquie Manning of Small Potatos with paper crane

Subject: RE: Small Potatoes
From: GUEST,Pamela from Ithaca
Date: 21 Dec 08 - 12:33 PM

I guess we in Central NY are ahead of the curve...
The Spud people are great favorites here in Ithaca,
where they appear at least once a year on the Bound for Glory
live concert radio show. In fact, one of their recent CDs is
basically a BFG show - three 30 minute live sets with their great
chat and songs. Very warm and engaging people.

-psg

Subject: RE: Small Potatoes
From: Beer
Date: 21 Dec 08 - 09:47 PM

That was really good.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: Small Potatoes
From: GUEST,JedMarum
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 08:43 AM

I love these folks. I've crossed paths with them a time or two at festivals and they are simply superb. Magic. Terrific. Lovely music and lovely entertainers.

Subject: RE: Small Potatoes
From: Mark Ross
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 12:02 PM

I got to meet them when they played in Butte, MT about 10 years ago. Absolutely wonderful!

Mark Ross