Blues Night at Stone Soup Coffeehouse featuring Marjorie Thompson January 23, 2010

Marjorie Thompson and other local blues artists perform an evening of blues at Stone Soup. Marjorie Thompson got her first guitar during the waning years of the “folk threat,” when county, blues, and bluegrass were all the rage at places in New York like Gerde’s Folk City. Though she was too young to go to those now-legendary performances, the influence was inescapable and she was swept up in it. As she learned the music of the blues and country blues masters, she was driven to write her own blues songs. She recorded four studio albums with Michael Falzarano (of Hot Tuna and New Riders of the Purple Sage fame) producing. Of her latest, 2007’s “Right By Me”, the great Chris Smither said, “I’m tempted to say that I taught her everything she knows, but she’s gone so far beyond anything I showed her I’m afraid I might get called on it.” The album was released to universal critical acclaim. Some say that you have to suffer to sing the blues. On the other end of the spectrum it’s a joy and a pleasure to listen to Marjorie perform them.