BY KAREN BOSSICK
Want to kick back and relax after the busy Christmas holidays?
Check out some of the free musical vibes around the valley.
Carl Massaro, who divides his time between Sun Valley and Nashville, will perform a free show from 6 to 9 p.m. tonight—Friday, Dec. 27—at Ketchum’s Limelight Hotel.
Massaro, who played for years as part of the band Cadillac Carl and the Road Rangers, plays a lot of country, but he’s also been known to serve up tunes in the vein of artists like Ry Cooder and Joe Walsh, as well as Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan and The Band.
“My mix is what they are calling Roots Music now,” he said. “I started playing up here in the 1970s and was picked up by the road manager of Waylon Jennings, who took me to Nashville. I have gotten to play with some great pickers and writers, and I spend seven months a year there now in my little garage/office on Music Row.”
Massaro will be joined tonight by JT Phillips, who was born in the Wood River Valley but now lives and plays in the Seattle grunge scene.
“He is a great guitar player and we are both looking forward to it. We play music you can dance to. Dale Bates and his dancers often come to hear us and they are so talented,” Massaro said.