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    Jimmy Pizzitola * Hilary Sloan

    Presented by Rudyard's at Rudyard's

    July 7, 2011

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    Jimmy Pizzitola * Hilary Sloan

    Rudyard's presents Jimmy Pizzitola * Hilary Sloan.

    Jimmy Pizzitola – (Houston, TX ) Jimmy Pizzitola is a Houston based singer/songwriter, night-time landscaper, and lover of all things jellicle (except Cats). His early musical influences, driven into his three year old skull while being held captive in the back of a 1968 blue Malibu by his carpool-driving...

    Rudyard's presents Jimmy Pizzitola * Hilary Sloan.

    Jimmy Pizzitola – (Houston, TX ) Jimmy Pizzitola is a Houston based singer/songwriter, night-time landscaper, and lover of all things jellicle (except Cats). His early musical influences, driven into his three year old skull while being held captive in the back of a 1968 blue Malibu by his carpool-driving mother, were the singer-songwriters of the 1970’s.

    After returning to Texas from Colorado in 1998, Jimmy began writing songs and fronting a Houston-based Alt-Country band, Jimmy James and The Enablers. Songs like the honky-tonking “Where the Hell’s The Johnny Cash in Your Jukebox?” and the quirky “Sweet Marie” were instant fan favorites. After a failed attempt to cut a record the old-fashioned way – with an investor, producer, hired guns, etc…, and the birth of a child, Jimmy took a performing hiatus and tried having a real job, with an income and everything. It didn’t take and it didn’t take too long before Jimmy had a fresh batch of songs and began hitting the clubs again. He also started devoting more time in his home studio and began working on the record that would eventually be Poet On The Run.

    In 2007, Jimmy was included in Steve Harris’ book “Texas Troubadours” alongside the likes of Billie Joe Shaver, Kris Kristofferson, Guy Clark, Joe Ely, and others. He joked at the time that he was the only one in the book without a record. With the 2010 release of Poet On The Run, all joking aside, Jimmy is sure to carve out a place all his own in the long line and deep-seeded tradition of the mythical Texas Singer-Songwriter.

     Hilary Sloan – (pictured, Houston, TX ) “Sloan sings like an angel and fiddles like that demon who kicked Charlie Daniels’s ass on this all-too-short collection of twangy styles ranging from cowboy jazz (“If We’re All the Same”) to brooding, reverb-heavy Appalachian rock (“Valley of Shadows”) to Sinéad O’Connor-ish Celtic-tinged dirges (“Midnight on the Stormy Deep”). When Sloan’s dark, as on “Midnight…,” she’s really dark, and when she dances, she does so like nobody’s looking, as on “Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.” There’s also an elegy to Rachel Corrie, the American activist crushed in the West Bank by an Israeli bulldozer. And “Hard Luck Town” is a cantering waltz to which anyone who has clocked a few years on this city’s music scene can relate: “If I could get out of this town / oh Lord I’d find me a place where I could settle down,” she sings in her honeyed alto, “Stop drinking and running


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    2010 Waugh
    Houston, TX 77006

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    Phone: (713) 521-0521

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    Small parking lot across the street and street parking around venue (free).


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