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A Merry Soulful Christmas with Tia Carroll
Experience world-class blues, dinner, and drinks — all in one intimate setting.
Kid Andersen produced Tia Carroll's You Gotta Have It at Greaseland in 2021, and the Blues Foundation put it up for Soul Blues Album at the Blues Music Awards the following year. Charlie Hunter played guitar on it, Jim Pugh played organ, and the Sons of the Soul Revivers sang behind her, with Mike Rinta, Rob Sudduth, Aaron Lington and Jeff Lewis making up the horn section. Little Village Foundation released it as her first American studio record, which is a strange thing to say about a singer who had already spent years working rooms in Brazil and Italy and fronting her own band around the Bay. Christmas night, two sets, 110 seats.
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Igor Prado came in from Brazil to play guitar on the record, and Steve Ehrmann, Paul Revelli and Derick D'Mar Martin covered the rhythm section with Vicki Randall on percussion. Carroll has worked the Bay Area soul and blues circuit for years, and has toured in both Brazil and Italy.