Tin Ceiling w/ The Delta Jets

Art in the cafe...

John Isaac Lyons


"Drawings and Paintings by Isaac Lyons"


November 2025



Isaac Lyons grew up in an artistic family in the woods west of Madison Wisconsin. While surrounded by nature in his youth, Lyons was drawn to the urban aesthetic of trains, street art and Hip Hop culture. As a teenager he spent most of his free time painting graffiti in abandoned buildings, under bridges and on trains. He has also completed many murals around Wisconsin and the midwest. Isaac’s recent works on canvas have moved away from the Postmodern Figurative/Symbolic, as he is now embracing a Neo Abstract Expressionist aesthetic. These paintings, exude raw brush work, and reveal his knack for color and...
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Saturday, July 24, 2004

Tin Ceiling is a five piece band from Madison billing itself as Alt-Americana, an eclectic blend of folk, country and rock that will be sure to get your foot tapping and a sneaky grin on your face.

Recreating that Delta Blues sound, The Delta Jets (from Green Bay) will get hold of you and pull you in. Dale Anderson plays an assortment of guitars and evokes that Muddy Waters thang with a mix of originals and old time blues standards. Drummer Mark Riggenbach kicks a steady back-beat that gets the juke joint rockin. This is no ordinary blues group, this is a blues exorcism.

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