Long before Seat­tle was the grunge rock cap­i­tal of Amer­ica, Jim Bas­night was on the scene.  His twenty five years of music mak­ing are about to be cat­a­logued into a CD ret­ro­spec­tive enti­tled, WE ROCKED AND ROLLED: 25 YEARS OF JIM BASNIGHT, THE MOBERLY’S AND BEYOND (BETTER THAN YOUR RECORDS). Judg­ing by his exten­sive cat­a­logue, this ret­ro­spec­tive promises to be a voy­age through every­thing thing that makes rock n roll fun, with the garage power pop of THE MOBERLY’S and his other band THE ROCKINGHAMS to the jazzier-acoustic feel of THE JIM BASNIGHT THING, and the BEATLES-meets– THE BEACH BOYS-meets-THE KINKS and every­thing in between feel (with every instru­ment imag­in­able) of his lat­est group THE JIM BASNIGHT BAND.
 For this spe­cial per­for­mance, Bas­night will be per­form­ing a selec­tion of his orig­i­nal songs back­stage at The Sea­sons.
NOT AMY is, at its core, the kind of old fash­ioned artis­tic exchange that made The Bea­t­les what they were. Search the val­ley, or the Pacific North­west for that mat­ter, for two more highly acclaimed solo per­form­ers and song­writ­ers than Chad Bault and Navid Eliot, and you will find a very short list of can­di­dates. Find two more acclaimed writ­ers that work well together, and peo­ple may very well call you a liar. Luck (and pos­si­bly a touch of fate) brought Chad, Navid, and another very tal­ented vocal­ist, Jenny Dagda­gan together, in Yakima, Wash­ing­ton.
Chad Bault grew up in the Yakima area, and was a main­stay of the local rock scene– very early on, with his band BIG BROTHER, and later as a solo act. Chad later earned his stripes as a tour­ing artist, and a reg­u­lar per­former of many years on the Port­land music scene, with his for­mer band, TRAIN GO SORRY, before mov­ing back to the Yakima Val­ley in 2008. The Port­land Tri­bune had this to say about Chad: “Whether at a whis­per or full vol­ume, Bault has that rare abil­ity to stop con­ver­sa­tion and turn every head in the house in his direc­tion.”
Navid Eliot, a Seat­tle native, moved to Yakima about 1½ years ago, where he has since been described as, “…the kind of heavy-gigging musi­cian scenes are built upon.” A for­mally trained musi­cian, and the 2003 win­ner of the Wash­ing­ton State divi­sion of the John Lennon Stu­dent Song­writer com­pe­ti­tion, Navid has been a gig­ging musi­cian and work­ing song­writer for more than a decade. Pre­vi­ous to his move to Yakima, Navid co-founded the Seat­tle band CURTAINS FOR YOU.
Com­bin­ing the writ­ing and vocal abil­i­ties of Chad Bault and Navid Eliot, with the breath-taking, Emmy Lou Harris-esque har­monies of Jen­nifer Dagda­gan, and the rhythm sec­tion of Mitch Sander and Shelby Cuyle is what makes NOT AMY. To pic­ture the sound: take a pinch of mid-60’s folk groups (The Mama’s and The Papa’s, Peter Paul & Mary, Simon and Gar­funkel); a pinch of the 90’s garage rock the mem­bers all grew up on; and a heap­ing help­ing of the thought-provoking writ­ing styles of Townes Van Zandt and Bob Dylan and you’ve got the sound-stew that is NOT AMY.