John Velghe - Solo Motorcycle Tour (Los Angeles, CA)

John Velghe - Solo Motorcycle Tour

The rock and roll circus canvas was held open by the likes of Chuck Berry Elvis Presley Smokey Robinson and John Lennonthe biggest tent artists imaginable. John Velghe descends from that line particularly the way John Lennon could take all the enormity and raw power of the rock and roll that came before him and deliver it in a lullaby. Both that scope of vision and that intimacy after all are the elements that most obviously connect Lennon to Velghe s mentor Alejandro Escovedo - Danny Alexander Take Em As They Come.Born in the midwest John Velghe (pronounced Vel-jee) writes songs leaning towards personal narratives and accounts of people he s met over 20 yrs of playing in bands and touring.USA Today called Velghe An earnest songwriter and frontman (Mike Snider) From a friend s ex-wife in Austin to a four-year-old waitress in Lucas Kansas to a transvestite railroad worker he met on the banks of Lake Superior in Duluth...