Guitarist-Singer-Songwriter Extraordinaire Willy Porter Brings His Remarkable Artistry to Cave Creek

 Tickets On Sale Now for Wed., Jan. 18 Concert at Harold’s Corral

Critics rave about Willy Porter’s talent as an acoustic guitarist, singer and songwriter. The Wisconsin musician, whose “dexterity defies physics” visits Arizona for a special concert at 8 p.m. on Wed., Jan. 18 at Harold’s Cave Creek Corral, 6895 E. Cave Creek Road, in Cave Creek. Gates open at 8:15 p.m. and Porter will take the stage at 8:30 p.m. The concert is co-presented by the Roastery of Cave Creek (ROC2).

Advance tickets are available at www.Ticketmaster.com or at Harold’s Corral. VIP seats in the first three rows cost $25; general admission seats cost $18 and general admission standing tickets cost $10. Harold’s is also booking dinner reservations prior to the show.

 How To Rob A Bank, the latest release from esteemed guitarist/singer-songwriter, showcases Porter’s continued growth as a songwriter and recording artist. Porter offers a rich blend of salt and sugar with tracks that move easily from rough-hewn electric edges into soulful irony with equal aplomb.

Having toured with artists as diverse as Jeff Beck and Tori Amos, Porter capitalizes on his experience as a seasoned live performer on How To Rob A Bank.

Frets Magazine called Porter “a genre-defying maverick.” He continues on that path as he easily transitions from the light-hearted McCartney-esque “Lemon Tree” into “I Didn’t Bring it Up,” in which Porter wryly declares he “checked the oil and cleared the gutters” of mid-life marriage. In the electric guitar-driven “Hard Place” he digs into three generations of an American soldier’s perspective. The rest of the album includes flavors of New Orleans (“Wide Open Mind”), The Band (“Psychic Vampire”) and post bluegrass country (“Barefoot Reel”).

Porter continues to receive critical acclaim:

 “Willy plays rhythms that make me want to crawl inside his guitar and sleep there forever.”

— Tori Amos

“Willy Porter is perhaps best known as a down tuned six string wonder, but as a singer and a writer, and as a showman, he merits equal regard.”

 — Puremusic.com

“Thank goodness he doesn’t play the flute.” — Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull

 Porter’s music can be heard at www.WillyPorter.com and at www.myspace.com/willporter.

 For more details, call (480) 488-1906 or visit www.haroldscorral.com.