The Naked Sessions, #18: Gary Bennett and the Coattail Riders
Every Song Tells a Story
Saturday, March 31, Naked City Brewery & Taphouse presents Gary Bennett and the Coattail Riders in the eighteenth installment of the Naked Sessions acoustic concert series. Each Naked Sessions features a great band or artist braiding songs together with stories about the music. To celebrate Naked City's 10th anniversary, a series of 10 Naked Sessions concerts will help raise funds for charities chosen by the artists. Garry Bennett chose Facing Homelessness. A portion of ticket sales will go directly to the charity along with any audience donations.
Join us for an unforgettable evening when Gary and the band take the stage to perform stripped down sets of country and honkytonk. Doors at 7pm, show starts at 8pm. Seated general admission; full dinner menu available.
Naked City Brewery is a passionate supporter of arts and culture. Oftentimes its hand-crafted beers are inspired by a song, film, or person. Every beer tells a story, and each one ferments in its own time.
The Screening Room is Naked City's dining movie theater, featuring a New American comfort food menu with vegetarian and gluten-free options alongside award-winning craft beers, wines, and ciders.
Gary Bennett and the Coattail Riders breathe new life into traditional country songs along with fresh originals and an infectious enjoyment of their music which is almost sinful.
Starting out his musical life In the shadow of Mt. St. Helens in the eighties, Gary Bennett has returned to his N.W. roots to fine tune a project of new original songs with accomplished local musical veterans while also entertaining locally, quickly becoming one of the areas favorite acts.
After touring internationally for over a decade with his critically acclaimed band, Arista and Sony Recording artists BR-549, Gary is enjoying the peace and quiet of Cougar Washington broken up only by the weekly trips into civilization to rip up the local honky tonks with his new five piece band, the Coattail Riders.
Recently, Gary traveled to Nashville for a series of reunion shows with BR-549 where they were inducted into Nashville's musicians Hall of fame where they are now honored with a display of their instruments and achievements.
Gary wrote and recorded on six albums with BR-549 and since leaving the group in 2002, Gary has released two albums of original material, "Human condition", and "My Ol' Guitar" both available on Amazon and iTunes.
Some of the other highlights of Gary's journey included both headlining tours and opening up for Bob Dylan, Strat Cats Brian Setzer, John Fogerty, Merle Haggard, George Jones, and the Black Crowes. BR-549 sold over 900,000 albums and received three Grammy nominations while Gary has another Grammy nomination as part of a Nashville project honoring Tom T. Hall.
Gary has appeared several times on the Grand Ole Opry And Many T.V. shows including late night with David Letterman, the Conan O'Brien show, and Imus in the morning.
Gary and the Coattail Riders recently released a Christmas single, Truck stop Christmas, and are currently working on an album project expected to be available soon.
The Coattail Riders members are all Veterans of the N.W. Country scene collectively having played in many of the top local bands over the last thirty years. Dave Mersereau on keyboards and vocals, Shawn O'Connor on lead guitar and vocals, Rudi Spain on bass guitar, and Bill White on drums.
