Stacie Collins & The Al-Mighty 3

"Over and over again I get to hear that: I've never seen a woman do that," Collins says. Mostly, she just smiles and says "thank you" after finishing shows in which she and her harmonica have howled and moaned, offering several hours of intense, exhilarating, youth-making, wild rock'n'roll. She is one of the favorites of Dan Baird, the cool rocker who had led the Georgia Satellites to the top of the charts. She's one of the favorites of Warner E. Hodges and Jason Ringenberg of Jason & The Scorchers, who invented cowpunk. Her husband, co-songwriter and co-producer is Al Collins, currently bassist for the Scorchers.
But Warner and Jason aren't into Stacie because of her relatability. They're into her because she's a badass, a tough, real rock chick. The latest version of their tough, real rock'n'Roll delivers Roll The Dice, her fifth album, which sets the best stage yet for her grueling, harmonica-driven cocktail of rock, blues and Americana. Collins recorded the album with her husband on bass, Dan Baird and Audley Freed (The Black Crowes, Dixie Chicks, Jakob Dylan) on guitars, drummer Brad Pemberton (Ryan Adams, Patty Griffin, Willie Nelson) and other top musicians.
"With musicians like that, there's an insane energy that comes from the music and you just follow your heart," Collins says. "You just turn your brain off. I can't categorize this music. People say it's unique and familiar at the same time." Collins was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, setting of Merle Haggard's most famous song. She grew up in Bakersfield, California. Her family moved there when Stacie was only five, so she soaked up the town's considerable music history. Bakersfield is where Haggard grew up and Buck Owens developed his twang sound.
"When I lived there, Buck still lived in town," Collins says. "My mother worked at a golf course and Buck would play there from time to time. She said he was very nice. Then Dwight Yoakam came and sang with Buck about Bakersfield, which helped the scene there get a lot of attention. It was great growing up there. I feel like I earned my spurs honestly." At 30, she started playing harmonica, listening to Sonny Boy Williamson and mixing her Bakersfield influences with Chicago blues. What came out changed Collins and entertained her audience brilliantly. A wizened cowboy hat, blues harp, rock attitude ... unique and familiar, all at once. Al and Stacie Collins moved to Nashville on 1. January 2001 to Nashville and soon caught the eye of talent scout, radio host, drummer and networker Billy Block, the heart of Nashville's indie scene.
"I owe a lot to Billy Block because he took my demo to Europe and slipped it to promoters. I owe my career in Europe to that," she says. "For the past six years, I've been flying across the Atlantic three or four times a year, playing in Europe for a very diverse audience, from kids to 80-year-olds." Block is no longer alive. Cancer. Collins is still around, better than ever. On Roll The Dice, she rocks out with great enthusiasm, exploring the entire terrain of roots music.
"I don't know how this is going to go over," she says.
In reality, though, she knows exactly.
Every night, the same thing, over and over.
"I've never seen a girl like that before."
But once you've seen her, you want to see her again. Again and again. Text source and more information about this event: https://batschkapp.tickets.de/de/tour/1000165-stacie_collins_the_al_mighty_3