Jordan Tice and Cameron Knowler Live at McCabe’s

Jordan Tice is a singer, songwriter and guitarist who combines witty, well-crafted songs with deft fingerstyle and flatpick guitar playing. His performances have been compared to those of legends like Leo Kottke, John Hartford, and David Bromberg for their mix of virtuosity and playfulness and his songs have been compared to those of writers, Bob Dylan and John Prine for their humor, introspection and philosophical nature.
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On the dusty streets of Yuma, Arizona, under a brilliantly ubiquitous sun, Cameron Knowler spent his childhood picking guitar and racing motorcycles at the foothills of the Gila Mountains. It was from this setting – a desert town gilded in silence, home to 90% of North America’s lettuce production and a high school that once functioned as a territorial prison – that Knowler developed his place-based philosophy of documentation. An acclaimed educator, multi-instrumentalist, and recording artist, Knowler specializes in the art of the conceptual record, putting forth instrumental works that Folk Radio UK has referred to as “Western sound-painting.” His craft follows in the theoretical footsteps of instrumentalist and songwriter Norman Blake and expands upon that territorial folk convention: Knowler brandishes a post-modern perspective on American traditional music that nods to both his formal theory training and his roots in the American West.