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December 9thUNM Songwriters Circle
December 10thThe Klezmatics: Happy Joyous Hanukkah
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January 12thRattlesnake Milk
January 13thYagody
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January 17thLeftover Salmon
January 18thVienna Teng
January 22ndVienna Teng
January 23rdSadness, Madness, & Mayhem III
January 24thKalos
February 4thKalos
February 5thThe Sadies
February 6thRonnie Baker Brooks
February 17thLevi Platero
February 19thVanessa Collier
March 13thAlash
March 13thTinsley Ellis
March 14thVanessa Collier
March 14thAlash
March 14thTinsley Ellis
March 15thLúnasa
March 16thGwenifer Raymond
March 23rdGwenifer Raymond
March 24thArkansauce
March 26thJane Siberry
March 28thJane Siberry
March 29thRoomful of Teeth
April 6thRoomful of Teeth
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Tinsley Ellis
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Tickets cost $36 in advance, $41 day of show (including service charges). Tickets for Outpost members and students, $26 (including service charges; must present Outpost member card or student ID at the door). Tickets are also available by phone through Hold My Ticket at 505-886-1251.
Tickets will go on sale to AMP members on Wednesday, Dec. 10 at 10 AM. Click here for info on AMP Membership.
Regular on-sale is Friday, Dec. 12 at 10 AM.
Atlanta-based musician Tinsley Ellis—known for decades as one of the greatest electric blues-rock guitarists of his generation – is now also recognized as one of the very best contemporary acoustic blues guitarists, songwriters and performers in the world. With 2024's critically acclaimed, Blues Music Award-nominated Naked Truth, Ellis unplugged with his first-ever acoustic album. On it he mixed his own striking original songs—inspired by Son House, Skip James, Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters—with a few reinvented covers. According to No Depression, "Even though it's just Ellis and his acoustic guitars, there's plenty of hell-raisin' blues going on. With the ghost of Elmore James looking over his shoulder and Wolf leaning in…Ellis proves he's an icon."
Now, with his new album, Labor Of Love, Ellis delivers a raw, edgy, self-produced set of 13 original compositions, all performed with pure, emotional honesty. The songs spin modern tales of floods, conflagrations, voodoo spirits, personal travails and heaven-sent prayers. From the feral opener "Hoodoo Woman" to the John Lee Hooker-groove of "Long Time" to the evocative, Skip James-inspired "To A Hammer" to the Son House-style stomp of "Sunnyland," Ellis inhabits his songs in a way that is simply astonishing.
Each performance carries the weight, experience and hard-earned wisdom Ellis learned over four decades on the road, making Labor Of Love as profoundly deep and moving as any music he has made in his career. It covers the gamut of emotions, finding good times in the hard times, mixing gentle beauty with foot-pounding ferocity.
