Leon Russell performing @ Norton Auditorium

Written By Robin Wade

leon russell at norton auditoriumLeon Russell performing @ Norton Auditorium

Amazing what all you can learn if you just step out of the studio every once in a while and look around.  Really the most amazing thing is that they guy that is always so helpful in getting my heavy furniture in and out of the Tennessee Valley Museum of art, has a decade or more experience making guitars.  His talent must be more advanced than any woodworker that's possibly ever exhibited at the Museum.  He also worked for Buddy Mac for a couple of years as a deck hand?? on barges (also something I have great respect for).

Ok, back to this last blog post from this morning's outing;  I just saw this poster announcing that Leon Russell will be performing at Norton Auditorium next Sunday afternoon.  Quite amazing.  Just checked my calendar and I'll be in town!!

Leon Russell performing @ Norton Auditorium

Robin Wade
Robin Wade Furniture is a celebration of nature—a melding of a forward thinking commitment to the environment and a quiet, harmonious design aesthetic. From his "slow studio" in North Alabama, award-winning wood artist Robin Wade designs and crafts one-of-a-kind handmade furniture. Years before a piece is ready to enter a client's home or a gallery, the process begins—naturally—with the tree. Sustainably harvested, each specimen of hardwood is flitch sawn into natural-edge wood slabs, debarked by hand with a draw knife, and stacked to dry, usually for years, before the final cure in the kiln. From here, Wade and his team use both hand and power tools to bring Wade's vision to life, and then finish each piece with a hand-rubbed oil blend. Each organic furniture creation by Robin Wade Furniture balances the raw, natural beauty of environmentally, locally sourced hardwoods with minimally invasive, clean lines—a juxtaposition Wade calls both rustic and modern. “I haven’t yet found a better artist than nature,” he says.
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