![]() …I’ve seen Stacy Mitchhart in Nashville more times than I can count. …Back in the day, Crystal Taliefero started producing Billy Joel’s “live” stuff, and that has led to a whole string of other producing gigs, including this Stacy Mitchhart album. …Stacy Mitchhart is well known locally as serving up “a shot ‘o Blues fo yo ass” as the house band at Bourbon Street Blues & Boogie Bar in Nashville. (By the way, Billy Joel and Stacy Mitchhart have both performed - separately - at the House of Blues as well, on different dates.) It was Apthe day that Billy Joel and Elton John performed together on their Face to Face tour in Nashville. …I saw Billy Joel in concert as part of his “River of Dreams” tour.īilly Joel just so happened to be performing live in Nashville on the same day that one of our local faves… #5 – Stacy Mitchhart She was subsequently invited to join the Billy Joel Band in 1989 when Joel put together a new band to record and tour behind the album Storm Front. John Mellencamp discovered Taliefero performing locally and convinced her to leave college in 1986 and join his touring band. ![]() …The only artist Crystal Taliefero has performed longer with than John Mellencamp is Billy Joel. The record was previously held by Elton John. Then, on July 1, 2015, Billy Joel set the record for the most shows at the Garden by a single artist. ![]() ![]() Billy Joel surpassed his own goal again in 2015 with 13 sold-out shows in Madison Square Garden in one year. …performed at Madison Square Garden in 2006 and announced that it was his record-breaking 12th sold-out show of the year at MSG. …I loved Bruce Springsteen when he was “the Boss” and saw him on his “Born in the USA” tour in Indianapolis.īruce Springsteen was the record holder for 10 sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden in one year, until… #4 – Billy Joel … Crystal Taliefero has played a key role in many of Bruce Springsteen’s projects. “For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, we’re not really in it, are we?” John Mellencamp is often mentioned in the same sentence with… #3 – Bruce Springsteen …I’ve seen John Mellencamp many times, and I have even been to his house! … Crystal Taliefero (also a fellow IU grad) has sung and performed several of John Mellencamp’s albums, as well as on many of his tours. …yes, many of us IU/Bloomington people still accidentally refer to him as John Cougar. Henry Lee Summer lived in the same town as (and played at many of the same gigs as)… #2 – John Mellencamp …I saw Henry Lee Summer perform a few times with my friend Suzie at outdoor concerts in Bloomington. …he was one of the first artists Crystal Taliefero teamed up with in the town where I used to live and go to college: Bloomington, Indiana. …lead singer in an IU party band, whose biggest hit was “ I Wish I Had A Girl“. See if any of these “connections” are true for you as well… #1 – Henry Lee Summer Crystal Taliefero’s Six Degrees Of Separation If you make it to the end (actually the middle of this post, just past the Six Degrees of Separation part), you’ll see just how connected this singer/musician named Crystal Taliefero really is in the world of music. But my point of writing this post is… if she has impacted my life in this small way, then I know that she has touched thousands of others’ lives just as much - probably even yours. The many layers of connection between Crystal Taliefero and myself are interesting. Nevertheless, I present you with my very own Six Degrees of Separation with Crystal Taliefero - who, like me, got her start in Bloomington, Indiana before calling Nashville, Tennessee home! Today’s post probably won’t make sense to anyone other than my friend Suzie and myself (and any well-connected singer or songwriter out there).
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