Sid Griffin

The great Peter Case has had to cancel playing his European tour with Sid Griffin due to illness. With Peter remaining in San Francisco we are now down to one Americana icon, Sid Griffin of the Long Ryders, and he will perform The Water Rats concert with his old pal Neil Bob Herd opening the proceedings. At the end of the night the two of them will play three or four Coal Porters songs together so please c'mon down to The Kitchen Garden Cafe and be ready to sing along! The return of the dynamic pairing of two Americana legends, Peter Case and Sid Griffin. The Grammy nominated Case first drew notice in rock groups The Nerves and The Plimsouls but since 1986 Case has been a solo singer-songwriter, usually appearing alone, with a dozen solo albums in his catalog. He has collaborated with a Who's Who of USA notables including T-Bone Burnett, Van Dyke Parks, Roger McGuinn, Heartbreakers Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench, as well as David Hidalgo of Los Lobos. Sid Griffin is known to British audiences from the Long Ryders and his frequent appearances on both BBC radio and TV as a pundit. Griffin has three solo albums out, the last being The Trick Is To Breathe, an album Uncut magazine named Americana Album of the Month, writing it is a high-water mark in a career which has always celebrated traditional American music with eloquence and boundless enthusiasm".