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Ray Cerbone on stage

ACMA - Opening for Reckless Saints


Saturday   1/16/21   7:00 PM

Ft. Myers, Florida  

https://www.facebook.com/events/478608090188368

Every year we start the ACMA concert “season” with Roy Schneider and Kim Mayfield, AKA, The Reckless Saints! This year is just a bit different in that our first ACMA concert of 2021 is a livestream. We hope you can join us virtually to start out ACMA concert season with a bang!
Roy Schneider and Kim Mayfield have been with the ACMA since the beginning…indeed, instrumental in all of this coming together. So it’s entirely fitting that they start us off in another year of music.
Opening musician Ray Cerbone is also a founding member of the ACMA. He was on the ground floor of the planning, and creating of the organization, and to this day gives tirelessly of his time and talent.
If you are new to these musicians check them out at www.recklesssaints.com and www.steelonwood.com
We hope you can join us virtually for this donation based concert right here on the ACMA FB page.
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Apparently, no one told Ray Cerbone about the fabled sophomore slump. Cerbone’s second release, Nobody’s Hero Anymore, more than fulfills the promise of his auspicious 2019 debut, How Much Time. Most tracks are underpinned by Cerbone’s precise, delicate finger picking on acoustic guitar, but augmented by blues banjo and harp, violin, cello, dobro, and perhaps the most tasteful tuba in all of Americana music. His voice is in fine form, expressive, ranging from passionate to an almost conversational resignation in the quietest phrases. And the songs themselves, eight originals and four covers, including Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile” (!), combine unflinching, gut-wrenching observations of life, (Cerbone has been a first responder with the police and coast guard – check out the title track), around an inner core of nuanced sentiment for days gone by (“Another Town Gone Down” and Joe Virga’s “The Big Top”). The production is strong and clear, the sequencing is consistently entertaining. The instrumental, “The Lake” even morphs into a flute-based jazz workout celebrating Cerbone’s beloved Lake August. Advance tracks are receiving positive responses in the Lone Star State.

Rob Carter
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