Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers
Heartland Rock Heroes
Why you should see this show…
From the Iron City Houserockers of 1979 to the current incarnation of The Houserockers, this band has always been one of America’s hardest working rock and roll bands. A Rolling Stone review once echoed the words “they are up there with Springsteen, Petty and Seger.” Pretty good company, don’t you think?! The band has changed but the music remains true to their Pittsburgh, Steeltown roots! Hard edged, rock and roll with fine lyrics from the ringmaster, Mr. Joe Grushecky. A Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers show is one of the best shows you will see, hands down!
Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers Bio
“In a better world, Joe Grushecky would live in a mansion down the road from Springsteen’s. Instead, this enormous talent spends his days teaching some of western Pennsylvania’s most troubled children….Who do you know who has made back-to-back great albums more than 20 years ago, and is doing the same thing now. There’s Dylan, Lucinda Williams, Neil Young, Springsteen, maybe a few more. He’s on that level.” wrote Jimmy Gutterman. Blurt Magazine had this to say about the band’s live performances. “Grushecky & The Houserockers performed like they thought they were damn rock stars and, on that night, they were indeed the greatest rock ‘n’ roll outfit on the planet.”
He has worked with such musical legends as Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson, Steven Van Zandt, Steve Cropper, and Bruce Springsteen. Joe and Bruce were co-writing partners for years. Springsteen produced the classic American Babylon record and lends his vocals and guitar on several of Joe’s albums.
At an age where most of his contemporaries have long given up the dream, Grushecky has recorded a new album, Can’t Outrun A Memory, that’s every bit as fierce, ambitious, and defiant as anything he’s ever recorded over the past 45 years. It’s the sort of populist message that Grushecky excels at, rock ‘n’ roll as balm for the soul that the Houserockers deliver with big beat rhythms, resonating guitar play, and fluid bass lines. Grushecky has long been lauded as a brilliant lyricist. The songs on the new record continue that tradition. Joe feels that it is some of his finest work.
The music of Joe Grushecky is the cinema of the American landscape – a raw, stripped-down version of a dream – of hope, loss, and renewal. “Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day; rage, rage against the dying of the light.” – Dylan Thomas, 1947. If rock ‘n’ roll has the equivalent of Dylan Thomas’s famed protagonist, it would be Joe Grushecky.
Dining Option
Our Concert Hall menu is fast to the table and allows you to dine right in your ticketed seat. Tableside food service will start 2 hours before showtime and the kitchen will close approximately halfway through the show. Tableside beverage service will continue throughout the concert.