Once again, on Friday 8th January the SCC welcomes back The Nashville Teens to kick off the New Year in style with their trademark brand of hard-hitting 60s R&B, featuring, of course, their two memorable 1964 Top Ten hits with “Tobacco Road” and “Google Eye - their epic version of “Tobacco Road” is always a worthy highlight of the show.
The line-up features their original lead singer Ray Phillips, who has had an unbroken half-century career with the band, as well as making solo records and performing with other line-ups like the British Invasion All-Stars with members of The Yardbirds, Creation and Downliners Sect. With him in the current Nashville Teens is an array of seasoned performers, including Colin Pattenden, member of Manfred Mann’s Earth band when they had their big hits back in the 70s, on bass, with Simon Spratley of The Ian Campbell Blues Band on keyboards, Ken Osborn from Levee Camp Moan on guitar and Adrian ‘Spud’ Metcalf on drums.
It will be another rousing night of to get the new season of Music Nights under way, featuring in Ray one of the great voices of the beat era.
