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Moses continues
Woodsmoke Cafe
Friday night music
Moses Gentry, guitarist and blues singer from Etlan in Madison County, will perform at the Woodsmoke Cafe Friday at 8:30 p.m. on Main Street in Sperryville.
Mr. Gentry plays a mix of blues, bluegrass and country music.
Saying he “really knows how to sing the blues,” Mr. Gentry recites a life history to prove it.
Bom to a musical family in Lenore, N.C., Mr. Gentry has a background in symphonic drumming, piano and guitar.
He grew up cropping tobacco on North Carolina farms from the age of 14, and since has “done just about everything there is to earn a living.”
He said he has played at Smithsonian festivals, Wolf Trap, the Newport Folk Festival in the .’70s and for President Carter at the Ellipse.
“I taught guitar briefly at Arlington Music — where John Duffy and Charlie Waller of Country Gentlemen fame also worked and taught me,” he said.
Locally, Mr. Gentry has played with John Jackson, Ronnie Poe, Skip Ashby, Jimmy Gaudreau and the Rice Brothers.
Other musical highlights of Mr. Gentry’s life he recounted: playing with David Bromberg and Woody Mann in New York City and a week playing with Jesse Winchester in Quebec in 1982.
He also lists as a musical influence the years he spent with the Lenoir College Avenue Baptist Church choir.
With his cousins, Mr. Gentry played Northern Virginia and D.C. “dives” in the ’60s, places like the Rocket Room, Benny’s, Rands and the Speakeasy.
The regular dinner menu is available after 8:30 p.m., when the music starts. There is a $2 cover. Call 987-9427 for more information.
Friday night music at the Woodsmoke Cafe continues in March with folk singers Bob Treanor (March 22) and Bob MacDougal (March 29).
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