Steve Poltz

Steve Poltz | The Armory | 2/3/2024

His ability to turn the disappointment of the small turnout into a highly successful afternoon was borne out when he called his support, Tasmania’s own blues whiz, Pete Cornelius back onto the stage, to do the last song with him, telling Pete the chords he would need to play the song.

“I'm not folk,” Steve Poltz said when he was hanging out with some members of the audience after his recent show at Jammin' Java. In his song “Wrong Town,” on his recently released album Stardust and Satellites, he jokes about being “Americana if you wanna.

You may not have the heard name Steve Poltz, but you’ve almost certainly heard his music. Steve, who opened for roots rocker Paul Thorn recently at The Birchmere, co-wrote the massive hit You Were Meant For Me with Jewel.

If it bothered Steve Poltz on March 24th, he didn't show it. When he introduced a song called “Don't Crash that Car” a more-than-tipsy audience member approached the stage with clumsy steps and Poltz met his gaze calmy.

I remember the first time I turned up at one, I used to think that a Stratocaster was the coolest guitar to play, but then I saw Chuck playing his Squire Japanese Telecaster and that was the end of that.

Toronto, Canada