I was impressed with Trevor Panczak’s CD release party for his latest CD, “Another Day, Another Dollar” at Average Joes, on Thursday, Sept. 9.
I was surprised to see a full house on a Thursday night, engrossed by the rising country star on stage, enraptured by his solo acoustic set.
The party was well underway by 8:30 p.m. I arrived in time to catch his solo acoustic set and to see the big man has a heart as big as his down home country voice. He brought up one of the Perlich Brothers to auction off a guitar signed by Lee-Anne Rimes to benefit the Ronald McDonald house, followed by a jacket and a GPS system for one of his friends fighting cancer. Just because he could, he also auctioned off a passel of vegetables before bringing his hot band Rough Stock back on stage for what amounted to a Panczak medley set first featuring Waylon Jennings hits, then a medley of Steve Earle as well as a version of Kid Rock’s “Summertime,” which segued into a riff on “Sweet Home Alabama.”
He finally got to the meat of his new EP to wind down his set, which including an uptempo version of the title track “Another Day, Another Dollar,” and the first single “She’s Everything You Want,” which is already getting airplay on Country 95 and “Borderline Crazy.”
Of course he played the “hit single” portion of his CD an excellent countrified cover of James Taylor’s “Fire and Rain,” which pretty much guarantees him national airplay.
He has a resonant, modern country voice and is always the affable host with dynamic stage presence, which really appealed to the audience.
He “ended ” his set with his own “Song about Drinking” which got him discovered during the Colgate Country Showdown in Montana several years ago, before being called back to do an encore featuring a medley of Johnny Cash hits and was set to go all night long, though he had already been playing for two hours straight.
He was set to end his set with the Dierks Bentley hit “Lot of Leavin’ Left to do” but was called back again for more.
— By Richard Amery, L.A. Beat Editor
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