Michael McDermott will make his Sundilla debut on Friday, September 23. Showtime at Pebble Hill is 7:30. Advance tickets are just $20 and can be found at Spicer’s Music, Ross House Coffee, and online at sundillamusic.com; admission at the door will be $25.
Michael McDermott might be something of an unknown in some places, but don’t be fooled into thinking that he’s a complete unknown. Stephen King – yes, THAT Stephen King – says “Michael McDermott is one of the best songwriters in the world and possibly the greatest undiscovered rock n roll talent of the last 20 years.” And The Washington Post predicts “McDermott may well become one of his generation’s greatest talents.”
And he’s no newcomer, not a Johnny-come-lately. In fact, Michael McDermott’s brand of music brims with the kind of well-honed style and wisdom that can only come from a career on the road and a pedigree in the studio. Effortlessly blending natural folk sensibility, pop hooks, and honest rock, McDermott’s music is as much for the outcast as the congregation.
More evidence that he’s not as unknown as some think is his string of successes. 2016’s “Willow Springs” went to Number One on the European Americana chart, and the string of critically-acclaimed albums go back to his major label debut, “620 W. Surf,” in 1991. “Yeah,” Michael muses, “that was the gamechanger. Critics were calling me the next Dylan, next Springsteen, I got into Rolling Stone, the New York Times, CNN, all that. And as soon as it came, it was gone. It’s a funny feeling to be 23 or 24 and washed up, you know?
Washed up? No, just finally in the right place.
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