Al Stewart

Dosey Doe Coffee House presents Al Stewart.  With Sean Ashby as opening act.

Glasgow-born Al Stewart has been an amazing prolific and successful musician for 40+ years, working in a dizzying array of styles and genres – in other words, he’s had a real career. Known for "Year of the Cat"and "Time Passages," his later work shows his talent as a historical wordsmith and lyrical balladeer.  He will be accompanied at Dosey's by guitarist Dave Nachmanoff and bassist Mike Lindauer.

"Al Stewart's name will forever be tied to his [two] breakout hits. This is unfortunate, because there is much more to this whimsical Scottish folksinger, who weaves humor and historical figures into his polished story-songs. Happily, Uncorked, a [2009 album] of 12 songs from Al's back catalogue, recorded live with brilliant lead guitarist and verbal sparring partner Dave Nachmanoff, is a perfect introduction to that "other" Al Stewart.

"The album's title has a double meaning: it refers to wine, which is one of Al's great passions (he is an award-winning wine connoisseur); it also refers to the live and unplugged format of the recording, which features only the two performers and their acoustic guitars. This stripped-down arrangements are excellent representatives of Al Stewart's long career, and show off the fine musicianship and easy rapport that these two performers have on stage. Highly recommended." — SS – SingOut! (Jun 29, 2010)

Stewart and Nachmanoff take a trip through Stewart’s musical back pages, both in terms of the musical catalogue (they did have nearly 20 albums’ worth of songs to pick from), and in terms of performance style. After all, Al made his bones in the massively fertile folk scene that was London in the late ’60s, and he numbers among his contemporaries the likes of guitar wizards Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, singer-songwriters Roy (“Hats Off To”) Harper and Richard Thompson, and a former flatmate named Paul Simon, who went on to some celebrity upon returning to America.