SNV Special Report: Carbondale, IL Part 4

According to an email...

From Brett Champlin, Executive Director, Chicago Blues Camp, posted on stlmusicyesterdays.com, quote, Cold Kitchen was formed when the San Francisco-based band Devil's Kitchen, originally from Southern Illinois, see www.devilskitchenband.com, broke up in the summer of 1970, a couple weeks after playing the Kickapoo Rock Festival.

And at just about the same time, the local Carbondale-based band Coal Dust was reforming after falling apart.

There were three of us left from Devil's Kitchen, and we had stayed in Seedale and were still gigging.

We all got together to jam one day, and without much real planning, we just sort of merged the two groups into Coal Kitchen.

End quote.

That website is under the Metro St. Louis Live Music Historical Society umbrella.

Cole Kitchen's lead singer, Carla Payton, is no longer living, according to that previous webpage.

The New Yorker said of her in 1974, quote, Carla Payton, an excellent black R&B singer from Champaign and her lackluster white male band, the Cole Kitchen, end quote, was the only rock band at the National Women's Music Festival in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.

That June 17th, 1974 New Yorker article was by Ellen Willis.

Cold Kitchen played around the Southern Illinois area throughout the 70s, including that concert at the top of the show from 1972 in front of a studio audience in Carbondale.

According to an email...

From Brett Champlin, Executive Director, Chicago Blues Camp, posted on stlmusicyesterdays.com, quote, Cold Kitchen was formed when the San Francisco-based band Devil's Kitchen, originally from Southern Illinois, see www.devilskitchenband.com, broke up in the summer of 1970, a couple weeks after playing the Kickapoo Rock Festival.

And at just about the same time, the local Carbondale-based band Coal Dust was reforming after falling apart.

There were three of us left from Devil's Kitchen, and we had stayed in Seedale and were still gigging.

We all got together to jam one day, and without much real planning, we just sort of merged the two groups into Coal Kitchen.

End quote.

That website is under the Metro St. Louis Live Music Historical Society umbrella.

Cole Kitchen's lead singer, Carla Payton, is no longer living, according to that previous webpage.

The New Yorker said of her in 1974, quote, Carla Payton, an excellent black R&B singer from Champaign and her lackluster white male band, the Cole Kitchen, end quote, was the only rock band at the National Women's Music Festival in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.

That June 17th, 1974 New Yorker article was by Ellen Willis.

Cold Kitchen played around the Southern Illinois area throughout the 70s, including that concert at the top of the show from 1972 in front of a studio audience in Carbondale.