The Jim & Shelly Show

Silencio · Post by **Silencio** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:15 am

In the spirit of self-promotion, here's an update:

Shelly Dixon and I are continuing to rehearse our duo act, and it goes swimmingly. We're on target to get out and about in late January, doing a cool, introspective set that lives somewhere in the center of a triangle bounded by folk, rock and jazz.

On a personal note, I'd like to say that Shelly is a swell singer, but she's also one of the warmest and bravest people I've ever met, and I honestly consider it an honor to be backing her up. This is a voice that Fort Wayne has missed, and I'm proud to be helping to bring it back.

Rock, rock on.

Oliver's Army · Post by **Oliver's Army** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:17 am

Is that the name of the duo?

Nothing snappy like "Wally and the Beav"?

(Shelly being Wally, of course.)

hehehehe

She's a sweetheart of a person too.

Let us know the first gig date and we will be out

Silencio · Post by **Silencio** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:48 am

We talked about going out as "Freebie and the Bean," but that didn't feel right.

Wiseguy.

Silencio · Post by **Silencio** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:25 am

It's official:

The Jim And Shelly Show will debut Wednesday, February 27th at Dupont Bar & Grille.

They do an evening of three performers on Wednesdays, I'm told, and so we'll only be playing one set, probably the 10 o'clock hour. This is a great chance for us to get our feet wet, run through an hour's worth of songs and start feeling it.... you know, keepin' it real.

Come out and have a cold one and hear the lovely and talented Shelly Dixon give some songs a neck rub, while I provide some minimal harmonic structure.

Oliver's Army · Post by **Oliver's Army** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:04 am

Isnt that a smoking bar?

HillgrassBluebillyFTW · Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:12 am

Oliver's Army wrote:Isnt that a smoking bar?

yup yup

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 12:15 pm

Silencio · Post by **Silencio** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 1:03 pm

The act will be billed as "Shelly Dixon."

Whattya think... is that "catchy" enough? Gosh, I hope so.

bassjones · Post by **bassjones** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 1:09 pm

Got my attention

Better than "The old fart and the hot young chick"...

Silencio · Post by **Silencio** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 1:12 pm

Well, I really wanted to come up with one of those wicked cool, ultimately-catchy "Present Participle/Somebody's Name" things, but the only one that hasn't been taken turned out to be "Lambasting Carlton."

Oliver's Army · Post by **Oliver's Army** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 1:14 pm

Its a keeper.

Silencio · Post by **Silencio** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 1:15 pm

Oliver's Army wrote:Its a keeper.

Exactly. It's her songlist, and she'll continue to gig long after I'm gone, so it only makes sense.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 2:35 pm

Lou B do B dooo · Post by **Lou B do B dooo** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 4:35 pm

I got a text from Shelly last night that said the show was off. Do you have anything else in the works?

Silencio · Post by **Silencio** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 1:03 pm

Oh, yeah, that would have been this week. Damn it.

No, I bailed on the act three weeks ago: I have a chronic disease that was in remission when we began, but has since has become enough of a problem to make it difficult if not impossible for me to perform live, so... to my utter disappointment, we aren't working together anymore. I didn't want to be that guy that does three shows and then says, "I'm out."

Shelly did sing a couple of jingle projects for me since the beginning of the year, though (and just killed the last one she did), and we got to be friends, so it wasn't a total loss.

But it would have been a real joy for me... the rehearsals were great, we were breaking in some real cool songs, and I think the world of Ms. Dixon.