UNCLE ROY: News

Wanna give a shout out to Lisa, Chris and Dale for being such gracioius hosts at the debut gig at Opelikas newest, coolest venue, The Event Center. Check out the upcoming shows.
Hope this is the start of a long friendhip. Thanks again, see ya'll soon.

Thanks to the Good Doctor for letting this old timer have a ball. Got to play 3 straight nights with Auburn Alabamas hottest new band. Every drummer in town was envious I'm sure. Thanks fellas, rock on!

As the new school season gets under way, the roar of the pigskin, the smell of the crowd, ah fall approaches. You can feel it ... yeah right.
The CD tentativelely titled "Mucho Gusto" should be out by mid fall. Got the Good Doctor Horns, even a didgeredoo. Its crazy, hope ya'll like it.
Alas the tour begins at the brand new Event Center Downtown. 614 N. Railroad Ave. Opelika's newest/hippest locale.
Wanna give a shout out to Chris & Lisa Beck for a Sat. Aug. 21 date at their new venue, this will be the kick off of the fall tour.
Playing solo, troubadour style, guitar, voice and harmonica. Gots lots of new tunes to share with ya'll and as usual if I get lucky, 3 out of 5 Good Doctors, or even Country Kenny Brown may stop by and pick a bit.
Playing on the edge, goin' where the crowd needs to go, sort of serendipitous spontanaeity.
Got a brand new custom Taylor guitar, special thanks to Lance and Mark and all the good folks at The Guitar Shoppe. A batch of new harps. Some fresh tunes. Let the games begin.
Time to share my eccentric /eclectic repertoire honed thru 50 years of research, each one with a story. I'll try and only tell the more interesting ones, come out to a show see if I'm lying.

WAR EAGLE!

Solo is simplicity,
simplicity is freedom,
freedom is power.

"Power to the people, right on!"

This just in - Uncle Roy will be opening for The Good Doctor at The Independent this Thursday, July 22.
Jonas and Austin from The Good Doctor plus Galen Hagerty on bass. Should be a blast!

Hey Kids,
Happy summer, pickin' on St.George Island, no oil on the beaches ... yet. Playin' with Smokin' Joe Brown, award winning BBQ maestro, on bass and guitar, Mike "the static doctor" Sherlock on lead guitar and I'm playin drums and percussion pedals and guitar, mandolin and harmonica ... havin' a blast. Been playing the party circuit on the island, callin' ourselves "UNCLE SMOKY".
more news ....
The new CD is gettin closer, gonna have a horn section courtesy of The Good Doctor, pedal steel guitar, Fender Rhodes, B3, piano, guitars, mandolins, harmonicas on 12 original songs. Should be out when school starts but hope to release "Stick A Lime In It" before summers end, stay tuned, thanks ya'll and have a great summer!

Thanks to Tina & Kelly at The Gnus Room for the chance to play some new tunes. Also wanna thank my right hand man Jonas Schultz for the Tenor Sax and them good ol' Nascar Harmonies.
See ya soon at the Southside Festival.
peace

We're progressing on the new CD. 12 tracks, some country jazz, some rock & roll, some boogie, some ethnic, latin things, some hillbilly, a little reggae, a hard country tune, a cajun song about Kansas, some uplifting things, a drinking thing, a coupla love songs, some folk funk.
Another easily pigeonholed production, call it Americana or Roy Music just don't call it late for supper. Ha!
Saps rising!

A big shout out to Ms Davino's after school program and the kids and staff at Loachapoka Elementary School for welcoming Uncle Roy & Peaceman (Jonas Schultz) for an afternoon of music & mayhem. The students performed Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" Hank Williams' "Jambalaya" and the spiritual "Wade In The Water". We had a blast!
Thanks! Lets do it again real soon.

Recording has begun for a new CD, featuring the boys from Honkytonk Amnesia, with musical director Jonas Schultz on keyboards, etc. and arrangements, the main man Jamie Uertz is ramrodding the whole shebang at that floating crap game of fidelity called Sarcophogus Studios, with a new location, and that cool Hematavoric vibe, we'll be keeping you updated on the progress, but the "games have begun"
HAVE A GREAT SPRING 2010

That elusive state of mind, where we forget our troubles and let the music take us away to “those thrilling days of yesteryear’ or last week when we had our first broken heart. Ya’ll know that sad songs help bad times and when the boogie woogie hits we just gotta dance … so take a trip with us down that hillbilly highway to the honky tonk edge of town, where we visit with Faron Young, Webb Pierce, Vern Gosdin, Johnny Paycheck, Gary Stewart, Bob Wills, Ernest Tubb, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, and Johnny Cash. We’ll hear original tunes with titles like “The Power of Positive Drinkin’ and “The Twang Thang” and “Is The Screwin’ That You’re Gettin’ Worth The Screwin’ That You’re Gettin’?
With Country Kenny Brown on pedal steel guitar, the hottest young pedal steel player in the south, makin’ his bones playin’ with Chris Posey and Adam Hood. Uncle Roy Schultz on drums, a legend in his own mind, having played around the world with such folks as Freddy Fender, Jack Greene and Jr. Brown. Plus two young hot shots, Jonas Schultz on keyboards and “Willie Austin” Gray on guitar, these young “hillbilly cats” are a sign that the future of real country music is in good hands. A little old, a little new, a little borrowed, a little blue.
A marriage made in “Hillbilly Heaven”

My dream band, pedal steel, keyboards, good ol country harmonies, pickers who sincerely care to do it right. Gonna be recording in March, stay tuned.

As the new school year begins so does a new chapter in the ongoing quest for musical enjoyment, a new beginning, a new group ...
HONKYTONK AMNESIA, hardcore country and hillbilly boogie. Country Kenny Brown on pedal steel guitar, a young picker with an old soul, makes those country classics come to life, ready to enlighten todays audience with a taste of history with a nod to the future. The Las Cruces Kid, Jonas Schultz on keyboards and sax, Willie Austin from Pt. Blank, Texas on guitar and me on drums, everybody a sangin', a young band with an old engine, after those years pickin' with Little Jimmie Dickens, Freddy Fender, Jack Green, Jr. Brown, Tennesee Ernie Ford, Melba Montgomery and Loretta Lynn I feel I'm back in Hillbilly Heaven, playin the real stuff.
Come on down to our first show at The Independent In Auburn on Wed. August 26!

So the reunion was short lived and now my boy is fronting his own band, school chums from Berklee and they are smokin. Playin' jazz/funk/rock, callin themselves "The Good Doctor" ... be forewarned, they rock. Raising the bar here in Auburn.
Now I'm back to my solo thing plus I been bangin' some drums here in Alabama, lookin' forward to some "Island Time' with my old pals at Eddie Teach's Raw Bar but also groovin' on the local Auburn scene. A shout out to Neal and Leslie at The Strutting Duck, Jaime at Roosters and all the good folks keepin us libated and happy.
Thanks for lettin'be myself ... still.
PEACE ...

Jonas is back in the saddle and sangin' them "NASCAR Harmonies" as well as his classic "Snakefarm" plus we're gonna be bringin' keyboards and percussion and mandolin and bass and all sorts of interesting things into the mix.
Now booking for winter 08/09 let the holidays bring us positive changes and let Uncle Roy and Jonas help with the joyful noise.
PEACE

PS Jonas is accepting bookings as a solo keyboard artist plus will be accepting students on keyboards and saxophone.

Seriously tho, my musical sidekick, The Las Cruces Kid, Tennessee Joe, MC Shang Tsung, the one and only, direct from Hollywood ... Jonas Schultz will be performing with me throughout the fall and winter on Tenor Sax, Vocals keyboards, etc, Come check out the show.
In other news Miss Rebecah Boynton performed a killer set with Uncle Roy & Jonas at their Oct. 2 show at Roosters in Auburn. Lead singer and chanteuse from the late great local rock & roll band Pretty Beat Up, Miss Boynton wowed the crowd, proving she just keeps getting better and better.
She performed her signature song "Angel From Montgomery" plus classics from Patsy Cline to Janis Joplin to Bessie Smith. The crowd loved her...
Stay tuned for further developments,don't forget to check out the October shows on St George Island.
PEACE

Ah ... the smell of the pigskin the roar of the crowd, football and fall, let the season begin. Stay tuned for more info on the evolution of the Uncle Roy Show. Changes are in the wind, have a great school year!
WAR EAGLE!

Aloha ya’ll, time to kick off the 2008 season with the return of an old favorite, “The Thursday Nite Open Mic” BRING YOUR INSTRUMENT! Come on down, sit in, tell a story, sing a song, do magic tricks, juggle, recite a poem …
the world is your oyster, eat some at Eddie Teach’s, the funkiest ol’ watering hole in the land of the Seminole!

CROSS THE SGI BRIDGE, 1ST LEFT, 3 BLOCKS TURN LEFT!
EVERY THURSDAY,

HAVE A SAFE SUMMER, PEACE!

The Auburn University Theater "Little Shop of Horrors" experience was a real treat, takes a lot of work and a lot of people to stage a major play, my deepest respect and thanks to all the actors and crew, mahalo ...but now on to spring and music in the sunshine and peace and love. sun and sand and surf etc. Come Support Live Music, you can find me on the "Forgotten Coast"!

Hey ya'll we survived opening night. There are performances thru April 19 at the Telfair Peet Theatre on the Auburn University Campus of the musical "The Little Shop of Horrors"
I'll be playing drums and percussion in the orchestra. It's a blast, come on down.

Hey Ya’ll Happy New Year!
Had a good one last year, My son Jonas just graduated with honors from Berklee College of Music in Boston and is on his way to LA to seek his fame and fortune with his ska band Jonny Vs. The Ninjas. My travels included Seattle, St Louis and Costa Rica while the missus went from San Diego to China to D.C. to Costa Rica to North Carolina. Busy but productive year.
Working on a spring tour of Costa Rica as well as a West Coast trip plus I need to hook up with my Hawaiian connection Andy Lau Lau to add that pedal steel guitar, dobro and banjo to my new recording. Hope to keep him here for a series of shows as well. Spring will soon be here and a show of my paintings is in the works as well. Check back and hold my feet to the fire to keep ya’ll better informed as to the progress of The Uncle Roy Show etc.
Last year I had the pleasure of working with the good folks at Eddie Teach’s Raw Bar on St. George Island. Hopefully I’ll be working on the island again this year but plan to broaden my scope to include the rest of the “forgotten coast”. Also on my to do list is get more computer and internet savvy, may even figure out this website stuff .
I’ve been rehearsing with the Uncle Roy Singers for the new season soon upon us. As the calendar fills and the bookings roll in I’ll keep you posted on dates and events. Still a solo act (whatsup with the singers? come to a show and witness the phenomenon) I also perform a as a duo or trio or full band when the venue and budget allows.
Rehearsing tunes for a new CD of my usual original eclectic mix of roots rock, latin soul jazz and alternative country folk blues of which I perform in my shows, I also perform a batch of covers with the “singers” adding another texture. It’s wild!
Come check out the show in 2008 and hope ya’ll have a happy new year!

PS Get informed and VOTE!

For booking info contact uncleroy@bellsouth.net or 334 821-3392