Drummer Steve Gorman, who grew up in Hopkinsville, will perform with his band Trigger Hippy on Feb. 28 at the Alhambra Theatre, the Pennyroyal Arts Council announced.
Gorman was a founding member of The Black Crowes and earlier this year released “Hard to Handle: The Life and Death of the Black Crowes — A Memoir.”
Tickets for the Alhambra show are $25 and went on sale today.
In Trigger Hippy, Gorman performs with Nick Govrik, Ed Jurdi and Amber Woodhouse. The band plays a “signature blend of country, Delta blues, R&B and gospel to Southern rock and funk,” the arts council describes.
The band recently released the album, “Full Circle and Then Some.”
“Full Circle comes from the same blend of rock, Americana, soul and blues with occasional gospel overtones that have been part of Trigger Hippy from the start,” Billboard wrote in a review. “The songs are melodically tight, but with a looseness in the arrangements that clearly can clearly accommodate lengthy improvisation — which is exactly the case on ‘Born to Be Blue,’ a trippy eight-and-a-half-minute opus whose studio origins were completely organic.”
Gorman’s family moved to Hopkinsville in 1975 and he graduated from University Heights Academy in the mid-1980s. He is the youngest of eight children. His mother, Imelda Gorman, still lives in Hopkinsville. She is a longtime patron of local arts and the Alhambra.
Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. Brown was a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era, where she worked for 30 years. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board past president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition. She serves on the Hopkinsville History Foundation's board.
