Arc Angels
Tucson, AZ
July 13, 2009
at the Historic Rialto Theatre

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Recorded and Mastered by Jamie Waddell
a project **GEMS**

-a rough house mix, but the tape still sounds pretty decent-


01 -Intro-
02 Paradise Cafe
03 Carry Me On
04 Good Time
05 Always Believed In You
06 Too Many People
07 Sweet Nadine
08 I'm Leavin'
09 Oh Death
10 Crave And Wander
11 Sent By Angels
12 Drifter's Escape
13 Spanish Moon
14 Shape I'm In
15 Living In A Dream
--Encore--
16 -applause and band intros-
17 Outside Woman
18 Too Many Ways To Fall


The Arc Angels are:
Doyle Bramhall II - guitar, vocals
Charlie Sexton - guitar, vocals
Chris Layton - drums
Mark Newmark - bass (replaced Tommy Shannon on bass sometime in 2009.)

Notes on the band, from their myspace page:

"Formed shortly after the death of Texas guitar hero Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Arc Angels may have been too good a story to be true. The quartet paired Vaughan's outstanding rhythm section of bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Chris Layton with lead-singing guitarists and Texas Vaughan prot�g�s Charlie Sexton and Doyle Bramhall II. Taking their name from the initials of the Austin Rehearsal Complex where they originally started jamming, the group released its self-titled debut album in 1992, with the thought that it would be the first of many. Arc Angels came closer than any other album at the time to carrying on Vaughan's incredible torch of blues, rock, and post-Jimi Hendrix guitar pyrotechnics. Tracks like "Living in a Dream," "Good Time," "Spanish Moon," and the Vaughan dedication "Sent by Angels," all bore the late guitar legend's influence, but without mimicry.

The Arc Angels seemed poised for the blues/rock summit as they toured in support of their debut until late 1993. But the perhaps inevitable competition between the throaty voiced Bramhall II and smooth-singing Sexton would eventually surface, and even more so during extending guitar solos of one-upmanship. Worse -- especially for Shannon and Layton, who had seen Vaughan nearly kill himself before getting straight -- was the increasing frequency of Bramhall II's substance abuse. By October of 1993, this ascending band decided to concentrate its efforts elsewhere, and separately.

By 1998, a clean and sober Bramhall II started a band called the Mighty Zor, with Shannon and Layton as his rhythm section. When Sexton showed up for a few gigs to jam with the trio, a series of unofficial Arc Angels reunion gigs -- mostly in Texas -- was born."