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On this landmark anniversary, founder, lead singer, and harpmaster, Mark Wenner, is still at the helm, while drummer Mark Stutso, guitarist Dan Hovey and bassist Paul Pisciotta all share vocals and songwriting, making this lineup on the strongest ever. Decades of gigs and countless rabid fans have earned them the name “The Best Bar Band In The World.” More than a bar band or blues band, as they’re frequently labeled, this is a band that played with Carl Perkins in addition to Muddy Waters. In March 2020, with a brand-new recording to promote, The Nighthawks did something previously unthinkable: They stopped in the middle of a Florida tour and drove home. Like so many other people, the band members found themselves out of work as the coronavirus swept the country. Itching to play, The Nighthawks found a couple of spaces large enough to stay apart while woodshedding new material. Previously, the process had been a streamlined one. The band would rough out a dozen new tunes in an afternoon and perform them every night for a year or two before recording. But now there was time, tons of it. Weeks turned into months. Produced by The Nighthawks and longtime compadre, David Earl, they took advantage of the pandemic slowdown to hunker down in Earl’s Severn Sound Studios in Annapolis, Maryland and crank out fourteen new tracks in the class Nighthawks style. Dan Hovey wrote a very relevant rocker, “You Seem Distant.” Mark Stutso followed with a fully blast, “Coming and Going.” Florida friend, Colin Kenny, a.k.a. Raiford Starke, wrote the soulful, “West Memphis,” and the band stylistically took it to Memphis. Stutso came up with, “Gas Station Chicken,” and everyone contributed to bringing in the funk.
STYLE: Blues
FREE
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More Details: http://www.thenighthawks.com/
From Route 123 North From Route 123 South
Burke Lake Park Location
7315 Ox Road
Fairfax Station,
VA,
22039
Link to Google Maps
The park entrance is on the right. If you see the golf course then you have gone too far.
The golf course entrance will be the next right beyond the park entrance.
The golf course entrance is the first left off Ox Road (Route 123).
The park entrance is the second left off Ox Road (Route 123).