56 Hope Rd. w/ Chicago Farmer at Mousetrap, FRI. 4/17
(as heard on Sirius JamOn 17)
http://www.myspace.com/56hoperoad
http://www.56hoperd.com/
http://www.chicagofarmer.com/
http://www.myspace.com/codydiekhoff

Read our professional bio at 56HopeRd.com.

What do you call the music? Acoustic funk? Jam Rock? It ain’t hard to get a musician to spend 45 minutes talking about what genre their music is, or how it’s really impossible to classify, so let’s just say it’s real fun acoustic rock. Jammin’, sometimes poignant, sometimes super-funk. We got Dave and Anne rockin’ the vocal harmonies, a great rhythm section consisting of Greg and Chad with Matt on percussion, Casey layin’ down the saxophone, plus a bunch of soloists that sit in. Listen to some tracks and see for yourself.

We are the Jam Base 2007 Road Warrior! We have played more shows in 2007 than any other band at jambase.com. Chances are, we’ll be playing somewhere close to you! Visit our page at jambase.com).

You can buy our CDs at our website, http://www.56HopeRd.com. We’ve just released our new album Law Of Attraction. Pick up some of our tracks from our Snocap store above!!

About Chicago Farmer
Cody is a folk-singers folk-singer and a poets poet. He was born and bred in Delavan IL, population 25, surrounded by the endless skies of the American Midwest. Before moving to Chicago in 2003, Cody tried his hand at sessions in Nashville and carefully hewed and tested his art in college town bars and honky-tonks around the Midwest. He now plays regularly in the city and its not uncommon to see whole rooms full of strangers erupt and sing along to the choruses of his songs on their first listen (Ive seen it happen). Codys voice is powerful and gritty, emotionally piercing while subtly imbuing additional layers of meaning and poignancy in his lyrical delivery. His song-writing is deeply rooted in the American Folk tradition and all of its grit but with a post Dylan sense of wit, perspicacity and that certain savior-faire. He didnt go to college but he drank all of their beer. Every folk-singer has to migrate to the city, in a way it seems to be hidden in definition of a folk singer anymore. Cody has come to remind Chicago that it is in Illinois. And to remind the rest of the world that when Louis Armstrong redefined, some say invented the art of Jazz in the 1920s he brought his Hot Fives to Chicago to do it. When Robert Johnson wanted to put his Mississippi Mud on wax, his hellhound chased him to Chicago to do it. And same like, Cody has come to Chicago to deliver what it needs, when it isnt even sure itself. He is currently recording a collection of songs from his vast back-catalog and performing across the heartland.

The Mousetrap, 56th and Keystone. 255-3189
All the best Jam bands play the Trap. NO COVER!!
http://www.myspace.com/mousetrapbar