Eddie Money coming to Sky City Casino

By Jim Tiffin
Cibola County Bureau

Eddie Money

PUEBLO OF ACOMA — He's been around a long time and during his years of performing and recording Eddie Money has established himself as a premier R & B singer.

Money brings a touch of soul from the hot rhythm and blues era of the late 1950s and early 1960s to every performance.

He is bringing that sound wwith his band to Sky City Hotel Casino at 8 p.m., March 3.

Money has just finished a new CD, "Wanna Go Back," his first CD in seven years and in which his 17-year-old daughter Jessica makes her singing debut in a duet with her father on "Ain't No Mountain High Enough."

There is no doubt that the singing talent has been passed down to Money's daughter Jessica whose vocal contribution to the song is both harmonious and singularly unblemished.

Money told The Independent in a telephone interview from his home in Westlake, Calif., that this album represents going back to his roots in music which are blues.

He was a police officer in Long Island, N.Y., for awhile, but music and California kept calling him until he gave in and landed in Berkeley.

"I cut my teeth in Oakland in the 1960s listening to some great blues, BB King, Eartha Kit, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding," he said. "I grew up singing a lot of blues."

Jessica will be writing some songs herself. He said he is helping her get her career started.

The album includes such R&B hits as the classic 1960s song "Good Lovin'" by The Rascals, formerly The Young Rascals.

Other songs are Jackie Wilson's "High and Higher," "Land of 1,000 Dances," "Mockingbird," "Jenny Take a Ride" and "Hold On, I'm Comin'."

"I've just finished new material for a European label, 'Frontier'," he said.

And, he is working on a Broadway play that takes place in the 1960s, "like Godspell or Hair," he said.

The solo show at Sky City will be in the VIP Showroom.

Tickets are $25 for preferred and $15 for reserved seats.

Sky City may be contacted at (505) 552-6017.

— To contact reporter Jim Tiffin, call (505) 287-2197 or e-mail: tiffin.independent@yahoo.com.