Maplewood’s Big in China band will be joined by special guest Andy Aledort of the Dickey Betts Band this Friday, November 13 at Suzy Que’s BBQ in West Orange.
The four core members of Big in China are longtime Maplewood residents: Alan Paul (vocals, rhythm guitar), Rick Wagner (bass), David Gomberg (lead guitar) and Jonathan Kampner (drums). The band plays the music of the Allman Brothers Band, Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Little Milton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King and others, including original material in a similar vein.
Andy Aledort is renowned as both a guitar player and instructor. Over the last 10 years, he has sold over one million instructional DVDs. He was toured for the last decade with Dickey Betts of the Allman Brothers, playing slide guitar on classics like “One Way Out” and “Blue Sky.” He has performed with the Allman Brothers, Gov’t Mule, John Scofield and the North Mississippi All Stars and also regularly participates in the Jimi Hendrix Tribute Tours. He is featured on the live Experience Hendrix DVD, appearing with Paul Rodgers, Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin, Mick Taylor, Mitch Mitchell, Billy Cox, Robert Randolph and others. He’s also performed and recorded many times with Double Trouble, Stevie Ray Vaughan’s rhythm section of Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton and toured Japan fronting Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys.
“Taste, tone, chops — Andys’ got it all!” says Warren Haynes, who has invited Aledort to sit in with both the Allman Brothers Band and Gov’t Mule at New York’s Beacon Theater.
Aledort and Paul have been friends for decades, working together at Guitar World magazine and collaborating on interviews and lessons with Bob Weir, Dickey Betts, Derek Trucks, Kirk Hammett, Warren Haynes and many others. Paul is the author of the New York Times best seller One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band and Big in China: My Unlikely Adventure Raising a Family, Playing the Blues, and Reinventing Myself in Beijing. The latter is a memoir recounting his experiences raising three American children in Beijing and the unlikely success of his Chinese blues band, Woodie Alan.
Big in China with Special Guest Andy Aledort
Friday, November 13, 9 PM
Suzy Que’s BBQ, 34 S Valley Rd, West Orange, NJ 07052
Free! No cover. But reservations are strongly recommended: (973) 736-7899
