Twilight Hotel

Pegasus News - Fort Worth, Texas - Live Review

Twilight Hotel consists of two blond, wholesome looking, yet tattooed, young musicians: Brandy Zdan (vocals, guitars, and accordion) and Dave Quanbury (vocals, guitars). Both switched playing acoustic and electric guitars with Quanbury playing left-handed so that he had to flip both over as they switched. Zdan played some excellent slide licks and will probably be compared to Bonnie Raitt too many times just for being a female player. Their songs had plenty of spunky attitude, bluesy vocals and solid playing.

Zdan switched to accordion when they played a moving song about a brother and sister who came to America illegally from Mexico and their travails called “The Ballad of Salvador and Isabelle”. They also performed a song about a female who was trying to make a career as a coal miner in “No Place for a Woman”. One of Twilight Hotel’s best songs of the evening was their salute to old-fashioned records called “Viva La Vinyl”. Quanbury took their beat up looking acoustic with its single pickup and coaxed out controlled, moaning feedback from his 1950’s vintage Gibson amplifier. It was very neatly done and capped off a very nice opening set.

Live Review by Ron Dempesmeier, Pegasus News, Fort Worth, Texas