First Honky Tonk Happy Hour of 2011!

Broken Ring & The Salty Caramels at the Honky Tonk Happy Hour

January 12, 2011. Columbus, OH. The Honky Tonk Happy Hour features a very special lineup for the first show of 2011, with the Salty Caramels at 6pm and Broken Ring at 7pm. This is a great treat for Columbus roots-music fans, who will have the chance to hear an a lineup of great female singer-songwriters, with the Caramels being a little bit country, and Broken Ring being a little bit rock-n-roll.

The Salty Caramels are the brainchild of Columbus-based songstress Molly Winters, whose collboration with Bree Frick (Matt Monta and the Hot Coal Band) and Angela Perley (Angela Perley and the Howlin’ Moons) has been kicking up a lot of dust in the local papers. With their robust blend of harmonies, the Salty Caramels manage to evoke the same sensation for listeners that the Jeni’s Ice Cream flavor brings to your taste buds, with the Columbus Dispatch declaring “The entrepreneur behind Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams - and the popular Salty Caramel flavor - reflects their music: creative, locally sourced and constantly changing”. The Salty Caramels are: Angela Perley (vocals, guitar, percussion, saw, slide whistle, kazoo); Bree Frick (vocals, guitar, bass, percussion); and Molly Winters (vocals,
guitar, percussion, kazoo, glockenspiel).

Broken Ring is an Athens-based alt country/Americana band with a spirited female lead. Drawing on raw and sassy originals with a bucketful of vintage and contemporary tunes, Colleen Carow (rhythm guitar), Jeff Redefer (guitar), Bill Rawlins (percussion), and Steve Phalen (new on bass) approach each song with thoughtful reverence. It’s fine fodder for this fatback, toe-tapping throwdown – lovingly complicated by the brooding elixir of a searching songbird. Recent press comments include: "This is one fun band that's worth checking out. Expect some swinging originals and twangy covers from one of the best groups we've heard from Athens in quite some time." -- Jackie Welker, Court Street Grill and “Colleen Carow is a mix of Norah Jones and KT Tunstall. Her soft vocals seem to float over her music, creating laid-back folk. It is easy to tell from her lyrics that she has a master's degree in poetry. Light, but at times bluesy, Carow introduces folk to its sultry side." -- The Athens Post, "Listen Locally”.

As always, we’ll be raffling off one of Jamie Lyn’s homemade pies every happy hour, and the Shrunken Head offers the Honky Tonk Special: a Budweiser and a shot of Jim Beam for $5.