San Gregorio Store Presents!
CD Release EXRTAVAGANZA
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Michael Vincent & U No Who
Saturday, November 8th 11-1
San Gregorio General Store– 7615 Stage Road
Celebrate the release of Sky Blue (C’mon, C’mon!) with us!
Get your FREE raffle for a chance to win a Vinyl LP.
Winners will be chosen at set break and at the end of the show!
Purchase your copy of sky blue (c’mon, c’mon!) at our next show, or email us at [email protected]
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C’mon, C’mon and Check Out the New MICHAEL VINCENT Album SKY BLUE (C’MON, C’MON!)
For Immediate Release – San Francisco, CA – Indie rock artist and Bay Area favorite MICHAEL VINCENT, known worldwide for his eclectic compilations of bright new originals and well-worn favorites across his seven album history, comes blazing out the door with his eighth powerhouse full-length release – SKY BLUE (C’MON, C’MON!) available November 7th, 2025!
Not unlike his previous albums, SKY BLUE (C’MON, C’MON!) includes edgy indie rock, power pop, and songs influenced by garage and grunge rock, to a couple of songs from Vincent’s folk- rock era with that lilting charm that draws you in for a slow, smooth journey of the quieted soul.
This will also be the first MICHAEL VINCENT album to ever be available on vinyl!
Meanwhile, MICHAEL VINCENT is performing all ten songs with his backing band U NO WHO on November 8th at San Gregorio General Store in celebration of the album’s release on Angel Blossom Records, Michael’s own Bay Area independent label that he formed with his wife Janet Klein Hollingshead.
The album’s opening and closing track “C’mon, C’mon!” springs forth energy that bookends the eight songs in between with two contrasting versions – one that roars with cross riffs inspired by the likes of The Dandy Warhols, the other closing out the album with a style that is slightly more accessible to a wider audience than the near experimental version that opens the record.
Both are celebrations of rock’s most primal ritual – grabbing your babe and jumping in the car for a fast drive somewhere – anywhere! Having two versions is the result of a collaboration with heavy-hitter indie rock artist Charles Normal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Normal), who these days hails from Skien, Norway. His older brother, the late Larry Norman, was a rock
hero to Michael Vincent (Michael’s band Home Free opened for several of the artists from Larry Norman’s “Street Level Artists” stable). And while collaborating with Charles on completing some of his brother’s unfinished songs, Michael visited Charles in Norway and recorded a rough version
of “C’mon, C’mon!”, and Charles in turn recorded his own original arrangement; sent it to Michael, and he added his signature vocals – and voila! Magic!
As Vincent himself says about it, “The energy of Charles’ arrangement is so ‘in-your-face’ unavoidable, it just makes sense to have the song come right out of the chute! It grabs you by your shirt and hauls you away! Having it kick off the album immediately adds to the energy of all the other songs that come after it.”
Michael’s last album Electric Fox was highly acclaimed worldwide in multiple national online music magazines and was the #2 album in the US on The Roots Music Report for the month of July 2023!
MICHAEL VINCENT began writing and performing in his early 20s and has released seven solo albums since his debut Lines and Wonders in 1993. He’s made music in some of San Francisco’s more notable haunts and has recorded with nationally known artists such as Mark Karan (of The Other Ones, Rat Dog, Phil Lesh and Friends), who was featured on the MICHAEL VINCENT album Radio (2007).
Other previous MICHAEL VINCENT releases include Upside Down (2012), Jump! (2016), The Longest Time (2018), and For the Record (2020); and he has opened for phenomenal artists such as Jeff Pehrson (of Furthur, Box Set, The Fall Risk) and the stellar Ruth Gerson of NYC (who herself toured with Dave Matthews).
U No Who is comprised of guitarist Scott Warren; bassist and backup vocalist Dave Mendoza; and percussionist Anthony Fulgar. With influences from across the spectrum including New Order, The Strokes, Nada Surf, Fruit Bats, Snow Patrol, Malo, Azteca, and Jaco Pastorius, the band came together in 2018 to perform live with MICHAEL VINCENT.
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Larry Norman & Michael Vincent Together at Last!
In 1967 a kid from San Jose CA, (Larry Norman) formed a band called People! and became so popular they were opening for bands like Janis Joplin, The Who, and more.
People! got signed to Capitol Records, and released a single called I Love You – by the Zombies in the UK but it never made a splash in the US until People! released it, and it went to #1.
But when they went to record the full album, Larry Norman as the lead singer wanted to include rock songs he’d written about his faith in Jesus, but Capitol said no, and the band broke up, and their album was never released.
BUT Capitol Records signed Larry to their Gospel label and he released ‘the’ first ever Jesus Rock album called Upon This Rock. With counter culture starting to seep into the churches, Larry’s music and his records made their way to youth groups.
Indeed his music became so popular he was eventually able to start his own record label (Solid Rock Records) and had a stable of artists that also performed Jesus Rock and toured the US.
I opened for some of those (and other major) artists with my own band (Home Free) when they came to the Bay Area on tour, and we became a bit of local rock stars ourselves of the genre as a result. lol!
Larry Norman had a great and long career in music, and was proclaimed by Rolling Stone Magazine (& others) as the Bob Dylan of the Jesus Rock genre.
He died in 2008, and left behind myriad unfinished lyrics. His brother Charles, also a rock artist (who lives in Norway and is signed to an indie label in Europe), sought out current or former Jesus Rock artists to finish writing the lyrics and adding music to Larry’s unfinished lyrics, and he and I connected.
He sent me 5 or 6 of Larry’s sets of lyrics, and I finished 2 of them, writing my own additional lyrics, and adding my own music – making one a country song (named by Larry, ‘Cowboy Song (Gravity)’ and the other a punk rock song, called ‘I Got No (But I Got What I Need)’.
Charles Norman really liked what I did with Larry’s lyrics, and invited me to come to Norway (with wife Janet) and record the two songs I completed, and add them to other artists who’re also completing some of Larry’s songs, to create a tribute album in Larry’s honor.
Charles himself moved to Norway from the US after meeting his wife and getting signed to the indie label while on tour in Europe. He lives there with his Norwegian wife, who’s a very popular artist in her own right (she’s a painter) and their 12 year old son. We’ll be staying for a few days in Oslo as tourists, and the rest of the time with Charles and his family.
So needless to say, we’re totally stoked about the whole trip, and I’m over here doing a happy dance, as I get to record 2 songs I cowrote ‘with’ Larry Norman, one of my all-time rock and roll heroes!