GLASGOW-based alt.blues artist Dave Arcari teams up with Bristol’s Chris Scott to present a double-bill of alt.blues mayhem at The Bein Inn, Glenfarg on Friday 9 November.

The show is one of six Scottish dates on Arcari’s current 28-date UK tour before he takes a break from touring in December to write material for the follow-up to his debut solo album Come With Me.

Come With Me features 11 Arcari original tracks and three covers – Blind Willie Johnson’s (one of Arcari’s main influences) Nobody’s Fault and Going to See the King and a Mississippi John Hurt-styled interpretation of the traditional blues ballad Stagolee. Indeed, Stagolee – played on a ‘regular’ wooden acoustic guitar – is a rare
departure from Arcari’s otherwise exclusive use of National steel guitars and glass bottleneck.

The new album follows Arcari’s three solo EP releases – Blue Country Steel (2004), Something old, something borrowed… (2006) and … something new, something blue (2006) – also on Buzz Records.

The tour comes hot on the heels of Arcari’s recent BBC Scotland special Parcel of Rogues which saw him put music to Burns’ classic poem and embark upon a roadtrip round Scotland meeting MSPs, historians and other colourful characters to find out more about the poem and the Act of Union it focused on.

Dave Arcari’s National guitar-driven alt.blues owes as much to trash country, punk and rockabilly as it does pre-war Delta blues – and it’s a sound that’s winning him fans across the country as he plays constantly all over the UK. Arcari originally came to attention in his other role as frontman of alt.blues pioneers Radiotones, but a solo tour of Estonia (including two blues festival headline slots) and a bunch of dates with the mighty Alabama 3 – and more recently with Seasick Steve, Jon Spencer and Son of Dave – have helped establish him as a formidable solo performer in his own right.

Full tour dates and info on Dave’s website at http://www.davearcari.com